Asset Performance Insight, an addition to H*’s Connected Plant strategy, provides awareness of a wider range of assets to help industrial customers keep operations running effectively.<\/p>\n
Assets don\u2019t just die; they\u2019re killed. So says Dan O\u2019Brien, H*\u2019s strategy and marketing director for H* Connected Plant. Operators can kill their assets by not understanding early signs of failure. \u201cIf you can head off those console alarms and shutdowns, you can improve reliability and decrease unplanned downtime,\u201d O\u2019Brien urges.<\/p>\n
H* Process Solutions has added a new tool to its H* Connected Plant offering that allows process customers to do just that. Asset Performance Insight connects an operation\u2019s assets and equipment to the cloud and applies analytical models from H* and its partners to help customers better understand asset health to avoid unplanned downtime and unnecessary maintenance.<\/p>\n Though H* has always had the ability to monitor the condition of the process, the new technology enables customers to connect to a wider set of assets, O\u2019Brien told me during a conversation at ARC Industry Forum last month in Orlando, Fla. It takes the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to another level.<\/p>\n \u201cIIoT for years was all about connectivity. That\u2019s all water under the bridge now,\u201d O\u2019Brien said, explaining, \u201cConnectivity isn\u2019t the issue. It\u2019s how to use that combination of connectivity to a wider range of assets and to a wider range of operators with a better range of analytics.\u201d<\/p>\n Predictive analytics is not about absolute time-bound pieces of information, O\u2019Brien added. \u201cIt\u2019s about using a more forward-looking way to understand the performance of the asset in context with what you\u2019re doing with it.\u201d<\/p>\n With that goal in mind, industry has seen an increased focus lately on asset performance management (APM) strategies, which have become critical along with increasing production demands and increased availability of data from devices throughout facilities. Because of increased demand, any unplanned downtime, equipment failure or unnecessary maintenance directly impacts a customer\u2019s bottom line.<\/p>\n >>O\u2019Brien writes about creating a smarter APM strategy in Automation World\u2019s March IIoT supplement.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Operational and maintenance-induced equipment failures account for most of the unplanned downtime, according to Richard Shaw, general manager of H* Connected Plant, harkening back to O\u2019Brien\u2019s point about assets being killed. With this in mind, industrial companies are turning to digital transformation and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to make sense of huge amounts of data, Shaw added.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t have to educate customers to understand about approaching reliability differently,\u201d O\u2019Brien said. They are beginning to see the benefits of having a detailed understanding of the process. \u201cNow our customers are starting to understand that they want to combine the health of the equipment with process operations to make sure they\u2019re using the equipment most efficiently given the current asset health.\u201d<\/p>\n Asset Performance Insight is the latest addition to H* Connected Plant, which connects not only assets and their associated data, but people and processes as well. It\u2019s an overarching concept that H* has created to run through an enterprise, O\u2019Brien said. Some other recent additions to the toolbox have included Immersive Competency, which combines mixed reality with data analytics to create a cloud-based simulation tool for training; and Personal Gas Safety, wearable gas detectors that integrate with H*\u2019s Experion Process Knowledge System.<\/p>\n H* designed Asset Performance Insight to be rapidly deployed to customers through pre-configured templates, which are based on the company\u2019s deep industry experience and real-world customer challenges enhanced with advanced analytics. \u201cWe have a breadth of connectivity, cybersecurity, people and process knowledge that uniquely differentiates us from the single-perspective competitors that we have,\u201d O\u2019Brien said. \u201cAnd the backdrop is that process industry is our reason for existence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Asset Performance Insight, an addition to H*’s Connected Plant strategy, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n