Suite solutions: to keep pace with the drive to reduce downtime and improve safety, specialist monitoring software looks set to play an ever-increasing role in many manufacturing and process operations

摘要

PRODUCTION plant operators are aware that more downtime equals less product and less profit - a simple equation that can have enormous consequences in large-scale processes such as the chemicals or oil and gas industries. Once maintenance engineers and technicians manually checked a plant's critical instruments and components -such as pumps, filters and heat exchangers - to see if they were in a condition that meant they were likely to fail. In common with many other tasks, computers and smart instruments connected by intelligent field networks have replaced much of this manual effort.