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MAINTENANCE & RELIABILITY
SYSTEM HEALTH MONITORING
DELIVERS FAR-REACHING
OPERATIONAL INSIGHTS
For process manufacturers, benchmarking a plant's
regulatory control performance is just a click away
BY JONATHAN STEVENS, CONTROL STATION
E
arlier this year, Control Station launched System
Health Monitoring (SHM), a tiered service
offering that leverages intelligence captured by
the company's PlantESP Loop Performance Monitoring
solution. The service enables proactive monitoring of
PlantESP deployments, facilitating rapid response to
system resource issues, and guidance for achieving
world-class control. Dozens of PlantESP licensees and the
associated production facilities enrolled in the service
offering prior to the official launch.
BUILDING ON KNOWLEDGE
Control Station's PlantESP Loop Performance Monitoring
solution capitalizes on a facility's existing historical
process data to assess PID controller performance on a
plant- or an enterprise-wide basis. The software uncovers
a range of common mechanical, tuning, and process
interaction issues that undermine productivity and that
contribute to unplanned downtime. PlantESP's library of
metrics automates the identification of controller-related
performance issues, and its portfolio of advanced forensic
tools simplifies the isolation of root-causes.
Historically, monitoring systems like PlantESP could
falter due to natural disasters and other unexpected
events, and process manufacturers lacked a common
method for assessing performance. The introduction
of SHM assures that deployments operate effectively
while also providing a benchmark of performance and
facilitating the pursuit of world-class production.
DEEPER INSIGHTS
More than verifying a system's health and providing a
prioritized list of tasks, the SHM service benchmarks
a plant's overall effectiveness from a regulatory control
perspective. The insights allow customers to see how their
plant stacks up against others, and they provide a simple
way for licensees to measure the positive impact of each
change to their plant's operation.
Intelligence derived by PlantESP is transmitted daily
via a compact and encrypted machine-readable file. The
captured information equips Control Station with timely
awareness of:
1. Server health: Basic evaluations of the system,
including verification of server's status (i.e., on
vs. off), calculation engine status, and access to
required databases.
2. Infrastructure analysis: Assessments of system
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