Industry Challenge - Past efforts at improving asset performance and reducing maintenance cost have either focused on specific condition monitoring applications, such as vibration monitoring, or specific reliability techniques, such as reliability centered maintenance, using separate tools and models. The problem with this approach is that reliability and condition monitoring cannot effectively be done in a vacuum – they are part of the overall solution.
Reliability Intelligence - What is required is a new type of solution, which providers “maintenance intelligence”. One of its goals is doing maintenance on the right equipment at the right time, a tenant of Condition Based Maintenance (CBM). But it factors in the cost of maintenance, and the cost of failure. The problem with doing CBM alone is that you don’t know which CBM alarms to prioritize with emergency break-in maintenance. Similarly, when Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is done without CBM, it results in excessive human inspections of equipment, when automated condition monitoring could have provided 24/7 surveillance.
Mtelligence provides the industry’s leading integrated solution, enabling maintenance strategy optimization via RCM, and condition monitoring for detectable failure modes via CBM.
Maintenance Strategy Optimization - Reliability Centered Maintenance is a great approach to optimizing maintenance strategy which came from decades of reliability research in aircraft industry. RCM hasn’t caught on in other industries to the same extent. Why? One of the problems is that RCM requires lots of data. It requires getting data from your EAM/CMMS system, including maintenance plans and calendar scheduling data, location and equipment hierarchy, type taxonomies, maintenance history, failure frequency, and failure codes. It also requires lots of modeling. One must define functions, failure modes, root causes, assign risk scores, define controls for each root cause, and so on. When this is a manual process, it can take years to complete, for only a handful of equipment.
Asset Health Monitoring -What is CBM? Everyday your equipment is trying to tell you how to save thousands of dollars? Are you listening? We are! Mtelligence CBM 3.0 stands for Condition Based Monitoring and provides an unprecedented “Single Pane of Glass” into your operations and maintenance.
Introduce condition monitoring to detect equipment degradation early; to reduce maintenance costs and ensure that repairs can be better planned resulting in significantly less downtime.
Reporting / Visualization - But, the Mtelligence solution goes farther than dishing up static numbers – it enables you to compare performance at each level of your operations to industry benchmarks.
Technology - OpenO&M (MIMOSA) Integration. Our integration technology is based upon a matured open standard, the MIMOSA XML-based standard for maintenance integration, and the OPC standard for device communication. Together these standards reduce the cost and risk of integration greatly. For more information on MIMOSA.
Mtelligence is one of the leading companies helping drive the web service evolution of the MIMOSA standard.
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