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Plant Asset Management (PAM) Courses

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PAM & AO Forward Direction by Scott Sumner

Plant Asset Management, in its broadest definition, is gaining the greatest value and economic benefits from physical assets while minimizing potential risks (safety, environmental and operational). Asset classes in consideration include rotating equipment, turbo machinery, piping, pressure vessels, valves, instrumentation, electrical system components and structures. Plant Asset Management must be supported by an organizational commitment and drive to continually seek highest value through a well-structured reliability strategy.

Plant Asset Management is emerging from industry leaders, who are incorporating the strengths of well known asset care processes such as Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), as well as proven practices including Preventive, Predictive and Proactive Maintenance. Strategic actions implemented by Best-in-Class leaders are focused on optimizing asset availability within the context of initiatives such as supply chain management, work management systems (EAM or CMMS), storeroom optimization, etc. The resultant of including a reliability focus as an integral part of such strategic initiatives can lead to dramatic reductions in operational and maintenance program spend.

Emerson's Asset Optimization Division (AOD) portfolio of products and services continues to expand to assist PlantWeb customers to increase the availability of assets and reduce their operations and maintenance costs.

An overview of the AOD portfolio will include the following:

  • AMS Suite to manage instruments, valves, rotating equipment and process equipment
  • Recent release of protection systems for critical turbo machinery monitoring and emergency shutdown
  • Recent release of wireless "overall" vibration transmitters to fill the gap between periodic vibration routes and on-line condition monitoring systems
  • PlantWeb Services drive economic benefits of AMS Suite technologies to customer's bottom line

Alignment and Balancing Implementation by Scott Flynn

This workshop will provide hands-on instruction in the basic use of alignment and balancing hardware/software with a goal of making corrective measures focused on alignment and balancing technologies.

  • Introduce alignment and balancing techniques on sample plant equipment
  • Demonstrate effective data collection
  • Learn basic data analysis
  • Develop reporting process
  • Hands on practice to align and balance machine
  • Report generated indicating initial alignment and balance conditions and final condition

6000 & 4500 Protection and Monitoring Systems by Brad Illing

This topic will consist of strategies of online machinery health monitoring, including our newest product, the CSI 6000, which is a protection and shutdown system for a plant's most critical rotating assets. We will include types of transducers used, protection vs. protection and control system integration options. Case histories and helpful photographs of a successful implementation project will also be shared.

AMS Device Manager: Install-Implement-Incorporate by Arturo Medina

Emerson's AMS Suite will improve your predictive maintenance and deliver results. Experience shows that in order to receive the full value from the AMS Suite or other predictive technologies, you must use them correctly and incorporate them into your daily work processes. We can help with a PlantWeb Services engagement to ensure that your site is effectively deploying Asset Optimization technologies. PlantWeb Services will help you DESIGN a maintenance strategy; INSTALL new technologies; IMPLEMENT re-engineered maintenance tasks to optimize work processes; and INCORPORATE new strategies to quantify the financial impact. PlantWeb Services add value at any stage of a plant's life cycle by re-engineering maintenance work processes to deliver improved manpower efficiency to help you become a best cost producer.

AMS Device Manager Forum by Larry Wolfe

Join your colleagues in an open discussion surrounding AMS Device Manager installation and implementation practices. The forum will include customers who have recently utilized Emerson's Installation-Implementation-Incorporate services. We will review best practices and lessons learned.

AMS Device Manager Update by Arturo Medina & Amy Davidson

AMS Device Manager provides an integrated operating environment that leverages the full capabilities of intelligent Foundation fieldbus and HART devices, including embedded data trending, charting and graphical display capabilities provided by enhanced EDDL technology. Version 9.0 enhances EDDL functionality, introduces wireless capability and provides enhanced system deployment options. Additionally we will look forward to the 10.0 deliverables.

AMS-Valvelink: The Power of Diagnostics by Brad Emry & Jeff Klatt

The ValveLink Snap-On is a powerful tool to add to AMS Device Manager Software for diagnostics and monitoring of control valves with FIELDVUE® DVC Positioners. Upgrades to the firmware of the DVC and to the ValveLink Snap-On will be presented. We will also have a live demonstration of the software and the enhanced functionality of ValveLink.

Asset Portal & the Connection to EAM/CMMS Systems by Amy Davidson

This session will highlight how customers are taking the guesswork out of work orders and focusing their attention on assets that are most critical to their operation with AMS Asset Portal and its Work Notification capability. AMS Asset Portal allows users to define rules and policies that trigger work notifications in EAM/CMMS systems, based on alerts and events coming from assets. Automated work notification streamlines maintenance procedures and eliminates the need to manually create work orders for critical assets, allowing your maintenance staff to work more efficiently.

Vibration Overview by Brad Illing

This Overview of Vibration Analysis will expose industry professionals to the process of collecting vibration data on critical equipment, analyzing the data, and determining the causes of common vibration problems. Vibration analysis is done to prevent premature equipment failures. Some of the advanced vibration subjects will be introduced and a question and answer period will enable participants to develop a thorough understanding of this vital area of condition monitoring.

Wireless Overview by Mark Kennedy

Wireless technologies offer process operations new opportunities for improvement. With a wireless strategy and architecture that align with your business needs, you can begin gaining the benefits today, while facilitating additional applications in the future.

This overview will explore:

  • What can wireless do for you?
  • Applications for plant and process information
  • Applications for workforce productivity
  • Applications for business and plant management
  • An architecture that works for you
  • Wireless technologies for field networks
  • Wireless technologies for plant networks

Wireless Products by Mark Kennedy

When considering a new technology like wireless, you might ask: How much wireless do I really need…and where do I start? If you are like most people, the smart way to gain the benefits of new technology comes in phases. Trying to take your entire plant wireless all at one time with one wireless infrastructure is perhaps unrealistic due to cost, time and risk. Now, you can start anywhere with Emerson's Smart Wireless solutions…from additional process measurement points to personnel tracking and perimeter security. Learn more.

Wireless Vibration Monitoring by Michael Miller

Emerson's Machinery Health Management (MHM) Group continues to invest heavily in research and development as evidenced by the recent release of the CSI 9420 Wireless Machinery Health Transmitter. In the past, high wiring and installation costs have prevented condition monitoring projects from being approved and executed due to poor economic justification. The CSI 9420 changes the rules! This device measures vibration, temperature and PeakVue® signals and transmits these health values to AMS Intelligent Device Manager and process control systems without the typical associated costs of conventional wired vibration transmitters. The CSI 9420 transmitter fills the technology gap between periodic vibration analysis routes and on-line condition monitoring systems and promotes the adoption of Operator-based Maintenance best practices in the control room.


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