Case Studies SmartSignal Eliminated Risk of Equipment Failure

	SmartSignal Eliminated Risk of Equipment Failure

SmartSignal Eliminated Risk of Equipment Failure

Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Predictive Analytics Sensors - Vibration Sensors
Applicable Industries	Oil & Gas
Applicable Functions	Maintenance
Use Cases	Machine Condition Monitoring
Challenge	Given the extreme volatility in the Oil & Gas market, a global Oil & Gas company was operating as leanly as possible. As such, the company was unable to monitor hundreds of sensors for each turbine on a daily basis, causing equipment maintenance problems to go unnoticed. Read More
About Customer	A Global Oil & Gas Company Read More
Customer Name	undisclosed Read More
Solution	Operating like a fleet of attentive engineers, SmartSignal detected increased vibrations and began remotely monitoring this issue while briefing the customer during weekly calls. Rather than waiting until a hard alarm was tripped at the plant that would have induced reactive maintenance, the Availability & Performance Center presented the customer a set of potential root causes to explain the increased vibrations and suggested proactively scheduling a borescope inspection of the turbine to identify which cause was, in fact, underlying. The customer conducted the inspection during a maintenance outage that had been otherwise planned and, as a result, discovered damage to equipment. Read More Log in to view content
Data Collected	Equipment Status, Fault Detection, Maintenance Work Orders, Vibration Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Predictive Analytics

Sensors - Vibration Sensors

Applicable Industries

Oil & Gas

Applicable Functions

Maintenance

Use Cases

Machine Condition Monitoring

Challenge

Given the extreme volatility in the Oil & Gas market, a global Oil & Gas company was operating as leanly as possible. As such, the company was unable to monitor hundreds of sensors for each turbine on a daily basis, causing equipment maintenance problems to go unnoticed.

About Customer

A Global Oil & Gas Company

Customer Name

undisclosed

Solution

Operating like a fleet of attentive engineers, SmartSignal detected increased vibrations and began remotely monitoring this issue while briefing the customer during weekly calls. Rather than waiting until a hard alarm was tripped at the plant that would have induced reactive maintenance, the Availability & Performance Center presented the customer a set of potential root causes to explain the increased vibrations and suggested proactively scheduling a borescope inspection of the turbine to identify which cause was, in fact, underlying. The customer conducted the inspection during a maintenance outage that had been otherwise planned and, as a result, discovered damage to equipment.

Data Collected

Equipment Status, Fault Detection, Maintenance Work Orders, Vibration

Impact #1	[Process Optimization - Predictive Maintenance] The customer was able to repair the damaged equipment during a further planned maintenance outage, thereby eliminating the risk of equipment failure, a scenario which could have caused tens of millions of dollars’ worth of lost production.

Impact #1

[Process Optimization - Predictive Maintenance]
The customer was able to repair the damaged equipment during a further planned maintenance outage, thereby eliminating the risk of equipment failure, a scenario which could have caused tens of millions of dollars’ worth of lost production.

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SmartSignal Eliminated Risk of Equipment Failure

Operational Impact