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Asset management in production
The term asset management comes from the world of finance and economics and refers to the manner in which a company deals with its
Benefits of Plant Asset Management
Plant Asset Management allows the maintenance engineer
•to unambiguously identify and evaluate the assets, this me- ans the production equipment and its components;
•to carry out the appropriate measures in the case of devia- tions from the desired or expected state.
As a result of monitoring, i.e. the recording and evaluation of status variables, the condition of a component or device can be determined.
It can be recognized, for example, that no signal is received from the sensor, resulting in the diagnosis "Open circuit". This result triggers a maintenance request, and maintenance must then be carried out to eliminate the open circuit.
This measure – replacement of a faulty line in this example – ensures that the component is returned to the desired condi- tion and closes the maintenance cycle. This means that Plant Asset Management is the basis for increased productivity.
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