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News Release from: Monition | Subject: Machinery health diagnostics
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Monition has been contracted internationally to provide specialist expertise in machinery health diagnostics and to assist in the introduction of advanced Asset Management techniques.
Monition has been contracted internationally to provide specialist expertise in machinery health diagnostics and to assist in the introduction of advanced Asset Management techniques Monition's Asset Management Support service goes international - partnering processing plants in Libya, Singapore and Australia to drive reliability to the forefront of their maintenance programmes
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 12 Nov 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Monition has been contracted to provide specialist expertise in machinery health diagnostics and to assist site engineering and condition monitoring teams in the introduction of advanced asset management techniques.
The benefits of Monition's partnership support agreement include remote technical support, which provides site engineers with access to Monition's UK-Based support team for guidance in condition monitoring and data analysis.
At the site's request, Monition also has the facility to log onto a plant's ICT network via the Internet, and provide support with real-time data analysis and database management - assisting engineers' as they work at their PC desktops.
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Providing an onsite presence, Monition's specialists have already conducted troubleshoots on problematic plant in Libya and assisted the CM team there to eliminate a number of long-standing asset reliability problems.
Successes include averting an expensive and unnecessary specialist overhaul of a faulty sea water pump - one of eight supplying cooling water to an entire petrochemical site - by correctly diagnosing resonance in the plant's 40ft structure.
Currently, Monition is assisting one site's CM Team to conduct comprehensive investigations into a problematic steam turbine compressor assembly.
Identifying the root-cause of the excessive vibration levels that are compromising the efficiency of the asset will avert a multi-million pound redesign of the plant.
Monition has provided on-site asset management and condition monitoring training to bring site teams up to speed on the latest diagnostic theory and techniques.
Training in oil management, analysis and sample collection has enabled the site in Libya to kickstart their new oil analysis programme.
Ongoing training and support is provided Online via a specially designed support website, providing engineers with access to Monition's 'Novameter' vibration analysis training, comprehensive 'Oil Diagnostics Manual' training programme, and asset management instruction templates.
"Clients today are looking for more than just the supply of condition monitoring services and technology," said Mike Burrows, Monition's managing director.
"Monition's asset management and remote support service provides the benefit to customers of an industrial partner with specialist diagnostics expertise and the resource to develop the capabilities of their own people and skill-base, in the growing need to understand how to manage assets more effectively.".
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