Efficient Plant October 2017 - 13

feature | reliability & profitability
Peter G. Martin, Ph.D., Schneider Electric

for more than 100 years. The primary objective has always been to
safely increase plant production. Originally, single-loop feedback
control was the preferred method, but it has been replaced by stateof-the-art process control in the past fifty years. Today, coordinated
multiple-variable approaches, coupled with dynamic-process models,
have enabled some very sophisticated predictive-control strategies.
These advancements in process control have enabled manufacturers to continually increase operational throughput. However, there
is an inherent risk in doing so. As industrial assets are pushed to
deliver more, they move closer and closer to their reliability and
safety thresholds. As a result, today's assets are under continuous
strain that is degrading their reliability and affecting overall
operational performance.
To counter that risk and alleviate the strain, industrial-maintenance tools and practices, intended to improve
asset reliability, have progressed and evolved over the past
two decades. Classic break-fix models, otherwise known as
reactive maintenance, have been expanded first to preventive
maintenance, then to predictive maintenance, and finally to
prescriptive maintenance. Each of these advancements led to
a corresponding increase in asset reliability. But manufacturers were soon stuck in a cycle because, even as advanced tools
and techniques were being applied to improve asset reliability,
process control became more sophisticated, fighting reliability
improvements every step of the way.
It turns out that more advanced technology isn't what we need.

OCTOBER 2017

What we really need
to do is rethink how we
address this age-old issue,
and that begins with how we
measure asset reliability in the
first place.

MEASURING RELIABILITY

Empowering today's workforce with
real-time operational
profitability data and
process-control and
real-time reliability-risk
information will turn
them into business-performance managers.
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Schneider Electric

In the past, measuring the reliability of
industrial assets was limited to analyzing
historical performance. A much more
effective approach is to directly measure
how likely it is that a reliability incident
will occur, i.e., determine reliability risk.
Data-science advancements and the
proliferation of condition and process
measurements in industrial operations make it practical to perform
direct, real-time measurement of asset reliability. Such measurement,
in turn, allows real-time asset-reliability control. Based on extensive
laboratory testing and actual in-plant experience, there is already
considerable information on reliability at the equipment asset level.
For example, accurate reliability curves, coupled with condition and
process measurement, make it possible to precisely measure asset-reliability risk (See Fig. 1 on p. 14).
Once the real-time reliability risk of equipment assets is measured,
it's a small leap to measuring the reliability risk of higher-level units

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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Efficient Plant October 2017

Editorial
Implementations
Profitable Reliability Control On Your Horizon
Experts Provide IIoT Insights
Integrating Automation Into Shade Manufacturing
Fluid-Flow Challenges
Looking For Failure In All The Wrong Places
Closer Human/Robot Collaboration
Note These Causes Of Motor Failure
Reliable Pumping Supplement: Food & Beverage Processing
On The Floor
Uptime
IIoT
Pump 'Cavitation' Might Not Be
Never Too Late For Basic Navigation
Audit or Assess? Understand The Difference
A Perfect Pair: Barcodes and Your CMMS
Lubrication Strategies
Products
Ad Index
Showcase
Efficiency Insight
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Efficient Plant October 2017 - Cover1
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Efficient Plant October 2017 - 7
Efficient Plant October 2017 - Editorial
Efficient Plant October 2017 - 9
Efficient Plant October 2017 - Implementations
Efficient Plant October 2017 - 11
Efficient Plant October 2017 - Profitable Reliability Control On Your Horizon
Efficient Plant October 2017 - 13
Efficient Plant October 2017 - 14
Efficient Plant October 2017 - 15
Efficient Plant October 2017 - Experts Provide IIoT Insights
Efficient Plant October 2017 - Integrating Automation Into Shade Manufacturing
Efficient Plant October 2017 - 21
Efficient Plant October 2017 - 22
Efficient Plant October 2017 - 23
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Efficient Plant October 2017 - 18
Efficient Plant October 2017 - 19
Efficient Plant October 2017 - Integrating Automation Into Shade Manufacturing
Efficient Plant October 2017 - 21
Efficient Plant October 2017 - 22
Efficient Plant October 2017 - 23
Efficient Plant October 2017 - 24
Efficient Plant October 2017 - Fluid-Flow Challenges
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Efficient Plant October 2017 - 28
Efficient Plant October 2017 - Looking For Failure In All The Wrong Places
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Efficient Plant October 2017 - 33
Efficient Plant October 2017 - Closer Human/Robot Collaboration
Efficient Plant October 2017 - 35
Efficient Plant October 2017 - Note These Causes Of Motor Failure
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Efficient Plant October 2017 - 38
Efficient Plant October 2017 - Reliable Pumping Supplement: Food & Beverage Processing
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Efficient Plant October 2017 - On The Floor
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Efficient Plant October 2017 - Uptime
Efficient Plant October 2017 - IIoT
Efficient Plant October 2017 - Pump 'Cavitation' Might Not Be
Efficient Plant October 2017 - Never Too Late For Basic Navigation
Efficient Plant October 2017 - Audit or Assess? Understand The Difference
Efficient Plant October 2017 - A Perfect Pair: Barcodes and Your CMMS
Efficient Plant October 2017 - Lubrication Strategies
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Efficient Plant October 2017 - 59
Efficient Plant October 2017 - Products
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