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Asset management has become enormously important due to the intensive global competition and the associated cost pressure in many areas of the process industry.
The aim of all asset management activities is to increase the life of the system components of a plant (assets) and thus the reliability and availability of the overall plant and also to optimize the maintenance measures necessary for this.
While the significance of status-dependent maintenance continues to increase, the failure-oriented and preventive maintenance strategies that were common in the past are fading into the background.
Operating errors, malfunctions or symptoms of wear can be detected at an early stage by means of:
- Online recording and evaluation of operating states and switching processes
- Comparison of operating point and standard characteristics of a piece of apparatus
Moreover, on the basis of long-term statistical evaluations it is possible to determine whether an apparatus is optimally designed.
Using a maintenance station integrated in SIMATIC PCS 7, assets of the control system can be monitored and their diagnostics messages and maintenance requirements can be processed.
Regardless of this, individual asset management blocks are offered as add-on products for the SIMATIC PCS 7 process control system; enabling the maintenance engineer to monitor passive (indirect) assets. These are CFC blocks that run on an automation system. One example of this is the condition monitoring block PumpMon in the Chapter "Libraries/Blocks/Tools". Additional asset management blocks of this type are currently being prepared, e.g. for heat exchangers and control valves.
In the context of these asset management blocks, Siemens, with its Premium Service Asset Management, offers extensive consultation services for the maintenance engineer as well as support during commissioning.
The Siemens experts employed for this purpose have process-engineering expertise and are experienced in the design and optimization of assets. They are familiar not only with automation systems but also with maintenance requirements.
The Asset Management Premium Service is of particular interest for continuous production plants as well as for new plants where no experience is yet available for the planning of maintenance intervals. Here the main focus is on "failure-critical" apparatus that requires fixed maintenance intervals due to severe wear.
Note:
A prerequisite for the use of the Asset Management Premium Service is the use of a SIMATIC PCS 7 process control system V7.0 or higher.