AMS Asset Monitor makes online monitoring cost-effective for more plant assets.
AMS Asset Monitor provides manufacturers benefits of continuous online monitoring for traditionally under-monitored balance-of-plant (BOP) machine assets.
Emerson’s award-winning edge analytics device and software solution utilizes CHARMs-based technology to collect vibration and process data from BOP assets. It applies embedded auto analytics to alert personnel to common faults for a wide range of assets like fans, motors, gearboxes, pumps, and other rotating machinery.
Although no additional software is required when using AMS Asset Monitor, reliability, operations, and maintenance personnel can move beyond simple fault recognition and take analysis a step further by integrating this device with AMS Machine Works.
Pumps are essential to the daily operation of industrial processes, but begin to degrade the day they start up. It is estimated that pumps account for 7% of the total maintenance cost of a plant or refinery, and pump failures are responsible for 0.2% of lost production. These numbers might seem small until you consider that in the roughly 150 large U.S. refineries, more than $500 million is invested in pumps. Pumps are, without question, significant players for maintaining production schedules.
Hydrocarbon pumps are essential assets to the refining industry, but they come with potential risks. What seemed to be a healthy pump during infrequent manual inspections can soon be the source of reduced or shutdown operations, expensive repairs, and compliance regulations. Dangerous fumes or even fire threatens the safety of your team and the facility.
The AC induction motor is the dominant motor technology in use today, representing more than 90% of installed motor capacity. Induction motors are available in single-phase and polyphase configurations, in sizes ranging from less than one to more than ten thousand horsepower (hp). They often serve as an integrated direct drive, where an impeller (fan, blower, pump, etc.) is mounted directly on the shaft of the motor. In this configuration, the motor is the driver for many essential plant assets.
A wide range of applications benefit from the use of centrifugal fans and blowers, including gas handling, chemical processing, dusting collection, drying, fume control, and process heating/cooling. Their size and blade configuration are specific to the application and industry, but they all have one thing in common: normal wear-and-tear on components such as bearings, rotors, blades, and the like can lead to unexpected shutdown of the production process.
Often described as the workhorse of the process industry, the shell and tube heat exchanger is an immensely versatile unit, able to handle a wide range of process applications and conditions. Whether you are looking to cool, heat, vaporize or condense, the shell and tube can meet your needs.
Maintaining the health and performance of this asset could be critical to maintaining your production schedule!
Case Study
Learn how a major European oil and gas company processing over 350M cubic meters of gas and over 350K tons of oil per year modernized monitoring of motors, pumps, gearboxes and compressors with AMS Asset Monitor edge analytics and AMS Machine Works software.
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Explore how a German electrical components manufacturer leveraged Emerson’s AMS Asset Monitor to monitor conditions of rollers and eliminate shutdowns of its critical, high-speed retrieval and distribution equipment in its warehouse.
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Discover how Koppers, a diversified manufacturer of carbon materials, chemicals, and treated wood products harnessed Emerson’s AMS Asset Monitor to monitor process-critical magnetic drive hot-oil pumping system in Australia.
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"We had been monitoring escalator health successfully with traditional route-based methods, but our growing system meant that offline analysis would become less cost-effective."
Learn how Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway (MTR) successfully integrated online vibration monitoring with AMS Asset Monitor into its existing condition monitoring program which historically had included AMS 2140 Machinery Health Analyzer.
Leverage deep expertise in vibrational analysis and software to get started monitoring assets quickly – without being an experienced analyst.
The continuous, online condition monitoring system comprising AMS Asset Monitor and AMS Machine Works represents a shift in how manufacturers across industries ensure reliability of their equipment and keep their operations running.
Working in tandem, the monitor and software enable plant staff to receive real-time updates on asset health from analytics within the device (at the edge), perform deeper analysis (as compared to the monitor’s native thin client interface), and is even deployable from cloud architectures for ultimate scalability.
Data from AMS Asset Monitor is provided to AMS Machine Works on demand, on alert or on schedule, and can include waveform data as well as status information for detailed analysis using the vibration analyzer tool from AMS Machine Works.
Users do not need additional software (like AMS Machine Works) to monitor assets with AMS Asset Monitor.
AMS Asset Monitor features powerful out-of-the-box software functionality via web browser for analysis, reporting, and alerting. This web-based thin client interface features an internal Logic Studio with pre-programmed application solutions for easy-to-understand analysis and alert reporting, and its Asset Studio interface delivers asset information to the user’s mobile device or desktop thin client.
Overall asset health status and alerts can be routed to Emerson’s AMS Optics asset performance management platform, and detailed asset data to the control system by OPC UA and Modbus TCP.
Most plants are aware of the importance of condition monitoring for critical assets...but what about the remaining equipment? What about those balance of the plant items that still need of some level of monitoring but don't justify the extra expense of online monitoring? Emerson's innovation for monitoring these assets comes from thinking INSIDE the box, specifically inside the AMS Asset Monitor, which provides all the technology and expertise you need in one convenient package.
In the latest release of the AMS Asset Monitor, user will find that additional functionality delivers new benefits and increased ease of use for monitoring balance-of-plant assets.
Improved Reliability at the Industrial Edge
Drew Mackley talks about the AMS Asset Monitor, Emerson's new edge analytics device that was available for demonstration at the Turbomachinery Pump Symposia in Houston, September 2019.
Most plants are aware of the importance of condition monitoring for critical assets...but what about the remaining equipment? What about those balance of the plant items that still need of some level of monitoring but don't justify the extra expense of online monitoring? Emerson's innovation for monitoring these assets comes from thinking INSIDE the box, specifically inside the AMS Asset Monitor, which provides all the technology and expertise you need in one convenient package.
In the latest release of the AMS Asset Monitor, user will find that additional functionality delivers new benefits and increased ease of use for monitoring balance-of-plant assets.
Improved Reliability at the Industrial Edge
Drew Mackley talks about the AMS Asset Monitor, Emerson's new edge analytics device that was available for demonstration at the Turbomachinery Pump Symposia in Houston, September 2019.
Cost-effectively extend online, continuous condition monitoring to an unprecedented range of assets, providing greater visibility into their health.
Users can conduct advanced automated vibration monitoring and analysis with Emerson’s PeakVue™ and PeakVue Plus technologies.
Designed to mount at the asset and reduce cabling requirements and other installation costs; wired or wireless Ethernet deployment for greater flexibility.
Accommodates up to 12 CHARMs which collect both vibration and process variables and apply embedded auto analytics to alert personnel to the most common faults associated with a wide range of assets.
Analyze vibration waveform, spectrum and historical trend storage in AMS Machine Works, send asset health and alerts to AMS Optics via OPC UA or view Asset Studio in a native thin client interface.
Robust industrial design with conformal coating, cybersecure, shock and vibration tested, Rugged enclosure IP66, NEMA-4X; Marine certification, hazardous area rated.
Out-of-the-box templates and preconfigured predictive limits and rules for fans, pumps, hydrocarbon pumps, electric motors, gearboxes, and more.
"We needed to go from purchase to modernization very quickly. We achieved our goals because Emerson’s (AMS Asset Monitor) solution was easy from installation to configuration. The solution continues to be easy in condition monitoring, vibration analysis, and embedded expert guidance."
-Onsite Automation Engineer
