Processing, August 2018

FROM THE EDITOR t is hard to talk about best practices and new solutions in the process industries today without the mention of digitalization Industrial Internet of ings IIoT big data or arti cial intelligence New technologies in these areas have arrived and are ready to address the most basic goals of reducing downtime and saving production costs The question is whether companies are using them or not In a 2017 survey of more than 100 operations leaders across the re ning and petrochemicals industries KBC a Yokogawa company and research firm IQPC found that adoption of digital technologies is still slow Nearly onethird of respondents said their focus will be on the adoption of proven technologies with new technology mostly on trial Forty one percent and 38 percent said they werent ready to implement solutions built around the IIoT and big data respectively KBC discusses these survey ndings in more depth in the first article of our cover series about asset management and condition monitoring page 10 For asset management to be most e ective this mindset must change or industrial plants and facilities risk being left behind said Andrew Normand global product manager for KBCs Reliability Availability Maintenance RAM consulting function Digital technologies will drive best practices by shifting asset maintenance from preventive based on a calendar or hours of operation to predictive based on analysis of digital data As maintenance methods continue to move away from reactive models toward more e cient predictive maintenance regimes techniques such as vibration monitoring are becoming increasingly important according Martin Armson of Hansford Sensors Armson discusses factors that can help to ensure optimal vibration sensor performance EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Christine Banaszek Sales Manager Charles Ross Son Company Frederic Baudart CMRP Senior Product Application Specialist Fluke Accelix Robert J Bockserman President Conatech Peter S Cartwright President Cartwright Consulting Co Barry Charnay President CEO Whisper Ingredients Inc Lyle W Clem Director of Engineering Electrol Specialties Company Ken Delafrange President Jadee Inc Robert M Donnelly Vice President of Marketing Flo Tite Valves Controls Stanley Herzog President Princeton Process Technology Consultants B George Kniazewyz President Renovare Eric Langer President BioPlan Associates Ed Marshall President Maintenance Management Technologies 6 Processing AUGUST 2018 John Stans eld Plant Manager Accelerated Curing Inc on page 14 In the past reaching a bene cial level of predictive maintenance required a lot of man hours and specialist knowledge However scalability o ers an e cient cost e ective solution to achieve reliable condition monitoring said Robert Russell of Senseye By automating around 90 percent of the analytic tasks that the diagnostic system engineer performs companies are able to address changes in the levels of critical assets within their organization without requiring a tenfold increase in their labor costs Read more on page 18 Unplanned downtime is the single largest cause of lost production time for manufacturers in processing Turn to page 22 for EU Automations discussion on how condition monitoring and obsolescence management alleviate costly downtime in the process industries APEX Award As companies further their aims Processing Excel lence Competition Awards were based on excellence in graphic design editorial content and the success of the entry in achieving overall communications e ectiveness and excellence e award celebrates our October 2017 edition which officially marked the magazines 30th anniversary This issue re ected on our history as a publication as well as the industries it serves Visit processingmagazine com to view the anniversary issue and the cover story e process industries A look ahead to the next 30 years We have a great team that diligently works behind the scenes and a wonderful pool of contributors and advertisers that 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