Effective management reduces costs

摘要

Analysis conducted by Volker Erbe, sensors product manager at Burkert Fluid Control Systems, has investigated the whole life costs associated with field devices such as sensors, transducers and the control platform to which they are connected. The first areas that instinctively spring to mind when a process professional is challenged to reduce process control costs are usually purchase cost and installation - and why not? They are the obvious ones and they are the easiest to define and list. When viewed as part of a system however, purchase cost plays only a small part - managing the multiple signals from sensors and transducers differently can radically affect the total cost of ownership for that process system.