How to predict monitoring issues

摘要

Managing processes and equipment through predictive maintenance presents significant benefits. Companies can obtain higher intelligence while simultaneously monitoring plants, pumps and other machinery, reducing downtime and, ultimately, cutting costs. Jez Palmer takes a look at how businesses can implement this useful technique. It is common for owners and operators to seek ways of extending the life of existing equipment to obtain more from an asset. This can help a business to reduce costs, improve production efficiency, performance and profitability Moreover, most production facilities still have enormous potential for improvement in terms of plant performance. In an industrial facility, maintenance can account for a significant proportion of operating costs. Lack of knowledge about when and what kind of maintenance is needed to maintain, repair or replace critical machinery, equipment and systems - including pumps - within a facility, can result in ineffective use of maintenance expenditure. More significantly still, it can result in expensive loss of production.