2008-10-21 - Companies are looking for the next level of plant performance and productivity gains through better overall plant uptime, improved maintenance technique, plant and operation flexibility.
In today’s competitive marketplace seeking out opportunities for improvements for the long term is at the core of most companies’ drive towards operational excellence.
One such opportunity appears obvious given studies have shown that 65 percent of maintenance performed is corrective, 30 percent of maintenance is preventive, of which 60 percent is not necessary. Given this, there appears a need to achieve condition based plant maintenance, rather than time based.
To explore this aspect further ABB and the OMG Kokkola Chemicals Company based in Finland conducted a review and in-depth analysis of the maintenance effectiveness possibilities for Low Voltage Intelligent Motor Control System (IMCS) in a real time application. Asset monitoring technology was deployed at OMG for IMCS, to study and evaluate the findings.
As recently published in the Australian Power Technologies (APT) magazine, findings of the study indicate that a well implemented and exercised condition monitoring maintenance practice should enable reduction in unnecessary maintenance and downtime.
Higher performance while lowering maintenance cost is achievable and most importantly, so is optimisation of all aspects of asset operational performance.
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