Plant operators face ever greater challenges due to the increasing level of automation, rising diversification in product structures and the growing trend towards integrated industrial assets. As plant complexity increases so does the need for better organised and streamlined production and maintenance procedures. Modern strategies that augment productivity and asset efficiency while simultaneously raising availability,…
IBM Maximo Asset Management is a computerised maintenance management system – CMMS – that support companies in asset intensive industries increase their return on asset investment while decreasing their operating costs, including greater work force efficiency, inventory/material optimization and lower supplier transaction costs. Asset Management from IBM Maximo gives you the power and performance to…
A PI Historian is a real-time data historian developed by OSIsoft. The PI Historian records data values over time in a proprietary time-series database. All different types of data can be recorded and each distinct piece of data is known as a PI tag. For a given PI tag, you record its events or data…
The perfect plant concept integrates manufacturing and business systems. This enables manufacturers to obtain production data for business decisions – in real time. In many companies, there are two IT worlds. The focus of attention is invariably on the business IT world, with its enterprise resource planning (ERP), office, and communication systems. On top of…
Downtime Measuring and Reduction Suppose it’s 2 PM Sunday afternoon, you’re the change production manager, and you obtain a telephone call from the press operator station; “We simply had an overload travel on number four press pump!” You tell the driver, “We had this issue yesterday as well, permit’s obtain maintenance down there and consider…
