Reliability Connection - January 2017

January 2017

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Emerson Launches New Plantweb™ Digital Ecosystem

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Article - Control Engineering
Modernize Your Plant with IIoT at Your Own Pace

Jonas Berge outlines the road map on how plants can get an IIot architecture to work with new practices and business models.

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Industrie 4.0 enables richer process and asset data for more effective operation. You may be wondering how to get started. Take a phased approach to implementation; starting within the plant, connecting to the Internet much later. Many plants have already started.

Phased approach Some plants already use digital networking at the sensor level and bring the data across the Internet to central operations benefitting from IIoT, but most plants are not. A plant can deploy IIoT step by step. The first several steps do not connect to the Internet so the I&C department can launch this initiative right away. The IT department gets involved when access across the Internet is implemented.

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News - Emerson launches new Plantweb™ digital ecosystem

Leveraging decades of digital automation expertise, Emerson (NYSE: EMR) today introduces the expanded Plantweb digital ecosystem, a scalable portfolio of standards-based hardware, software, intelligent devices and services for securely implementing the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) with measurable business performance improvement.

Plantweb becomes the most comprehensive and integrated Industrial IoT portfolio in the industry. In addition to highly secure process control, safety and asset management systems, Plantweb now supports enterprise-wide operations with an expanded portfolio of Pervasive Sensing field instruments, the Secure First Mile family of software, gateways, security devices and services, the Plantweb Insight™ and Plantweb Advisor™ scalable suite of software applications, the AMS ARES™ Platform, and Microsoft-enabled, cloud-based remote expert Connected Services.

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Reliability Tip:

Beneficial Uses of Equipment Criticality Ranking Analysis

It is commonly accepted that there are many benefits to undertaking an Equipment Criticality Ranking initiative. Although most organizations utilize the information derived from this effort to aid in prioritization of executing work management activities, there are a number of additional uses for capturing this key information. Some of the areas that you may want to consider utilizing at your site include but are not limited to the following:

Combining with work prioritization codes to aid Schedulers in determining overall work prioritization
Adopting an Equipment Failure Management Strategy
As part of a Preventive Maintenance Optimization effort
When selecting Job Plans to improve
In determining that critical equipment contains Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA’s)
To ensure that Predictive Maintenance testing is being conducted on applicable critical equipment
When identifying which equipment or processes to apply Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
When evaluating Critical Spares
For use in prioritizing which equipment to conduct a Bill of Materials (BOM) study
In determining which equipment to develop a Repairable Spares program for

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