Time is money in today’s business climate and major equipment failures
mean increased costs and lost time, and therefore lost revenue. GE
Intelligent Platforms (NYSE: GE) is helping customers achieve optimum
equipment health through its Industrial Performance & Reliability Center
(IPRC) so they can enjoy Zero Unplanned Downtime in their businesses.
The IPRC, located in Lisle, Illinois, is staffed with experienced
reliability engineers who monitor thousands of assets around the world,
seven days per week. These assets are in industries such as Oil & Gas,
Power Generation, Mining and Aviation. Each month the center ‘catches’
more than 200 predictive equipment failures; issues agreed to by the
customer as early signs of failure modes and that the customer decides
to fix as a result of the advisory. In 2013, the IPRC caught almost
2,200 early failures; a 99.7% accuracy rate for catchable events as
defined by its customer base.
Part of the IPRC solution is GE’s industry-leading Proficy™
SmartSignal, software that detects variances for each particular
piece of equipment to provide early warning of impending problems, with
diagnoses of major equipment and process failures, and prioritizations
based on severity. The software also helps organize maintenance projects
with confidence and reduces the cost of maintenance because it can be
scheduled on off-times.
“Through the IPRC we are able to harness the power of the Industrial
Internet to provide real results for customers,” said Brian Courtney,
General Manager for GE Intelligent Platforms’ Industrial Data
Intelligence solutions. “These outcomes, found through predictive
analytics, are real today and customers feel the impact every day.”
Mike Hartsig, Plant Manager for Griffith Energy thinks the GE solution
helps him make his plant as reliable and efficient as possible, all the
time. “What keeps me up at night are the things I don’t know about.
Proficy gives us a heads up as to potential problems. We use it to let
us know about anomalies before they become alarms and before they become
a problem.”
This month, GE has also introduced a new tool, the Monitoring & Analysis
Snapshot, which visually shows assets monitored and the value of data
analytics coming from the IPRC. It presents a true picture of the
Industrial Internet in the real world as it relates to Advanced
Predictive Analytics.
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and hear more of what Mike Hartsig has to say here.
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