Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 brochure Asset management in production, Benefits of Plant Asset Management

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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 long-term and current assets. These include the production equipment with its plant components such as ap- paratus, machines, pipelines etc. and the equipment and de- vices for their automation. All these are referred to as assets. In association with production, asset management covers all activities and measures which serve toward retaining or incre- asing the value of a plant. This is called Plant Asset Manage- ment.

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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Contents Maintenance System Maintenance strategies Increase in productivity through intelligent maintenanceBenefits of intelligent maintenance IntroductionContents Maintenance personnel Plant Asset Management as a maintenance taskGeneral information Different demand for information at the plantBenefits of Plant Asset Management Asset management in productionPlant Asset Management with Simatic PCS Intelligent maintenance in process engineeringOptimizing instead of repairing Integrated plant and cross-system maintenanceSimatic PCS 7 Maintenance Station More productivity with Totally Integrated AutomationVisualization of information for maintenance Monitoring and diagnostics of mechanical components Maintenance Station User interface for maintenancePump monitoring with the block PumpMon Valve monitoring with the block ValveMonDesign of a Maintenance Station Standard diagnostics functionsConfiguring a Maintenance Station Visualization in the Maintenance StationMaintenance Symbol displays and component faceplatesIdentification MessagesPM-MAINT intelligent maintenance management Alarm Control Center alarm management systemMaintenance planning Archiving of maintenance dataMonitoring and diagnostics Monitoring Signaling Alerting Visaulization OperatingFor industrial PCs Prevention of potential failuresMonitoring of PROFINET/Industrial Ethernet Monitoring and diagnostics of networksNetwork components Network managementDiagnosis of optical Profibus links with OLM Benefits of network monitoring and diagnosticsMonitoring of Profibus Sitrans TH300 the Hart device Temperature measurementSitrans TH400 for Profibus PA Sitrans TW for rail mountingFlow measurement ΜS/cm guaranteedSitrans Probe LR, pulse radar Level measurementCalomat 6/62 Gas analyzersProcess gas chromatography Remote serviceMaxum edition MicroSAMSitrans VP300 Monitoring and diagnostics for positioners and valvesMonitoring and diagnostics of 24 V load feeders Ground fault or insulation detection TemperatureContact erosion Number of starts, breaking currentMonitoring and diagnostics Status assessment of high-voltage machines Monitoring and diagnostics of drive componentsDiagnostics of drives Schematic flow of information using example of a mixer drive Benefits Get more information