The industry’s most extensive integration of process and machinery health information enables plants to operate with confidence

Emerson Process Management has integrated machinery protection and prediction of critical mechanical equipment with its DeltaV™ digital automation system. This new capability directly supports users’ goals for improved availability and performance. As turbomachinery and mechanical equipment condition deteriorates, performance and throughput decrease and unplanned shutdowns become more probable. When plant operators have visibility to the performance of their most critical assets, they can make process adjustments and reduce process disruptions.

In traditional control systems, integration is complex and expensive, requiring Modbus communications and system expertise, as well as specific machinery knowledge. Typical machinery protection systems can require more than 2,000 steps and up to five days to complete the integration process. With this many steps, network issues, additional testing time and nuisance alarms are easily introduced. The barriers to undertaking integration are prohibitive, even though the payback from better information for operators is significant.

Emerson’s integrated machinery protection and prediction solution, a key component of the PlantWeb® digital plant architecture, easily connects to the DeltaV system in three simple steps that take less than ten minutes. Asset parameters are scanned, selected and imported into the DeltaV system from AMS™ Suite predictive maintenance software and the CSI 6500 Machinery Health® Monitor. After import, the DeltaV alarm banner is automatically populated and the system is fully configured with function blocks that can be further used in control strategies. 

Integration in the operator interface also includes templates for vibration bar graphs, vibration values and auto highlighters to enable any DeltaV operator graphic to come alive with valuable machinery health information for operators.

“The benefits of combining process information and machinery health have long been understood, but this is the first time the two have been integrated automatically and so extensively for engineering, operations, and reliability personnel,” said Craig Llewellyn, president of Emerson’s Asset Optimization division.

Emerson also provides PlantWeb Services to help users design, install, and implement machinery protection and prediction. With these new capabilities, the DeltaV system provides an integrated solution for process control, process safety, machinery protection and prediction.

For additional information on machinery protection and prediction, see the brief videos at www.EmersonProcess.com/videos/TechDemos_AssetReliability.asp

For further information please contact;

Emerson Process Management
Blegistrasse 21
6341 Baar
Switzerland

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