Providing advanced asset management capabilities

Statistics show that industrial manufacturing plants will lose more than 40 per cent of their maintenance personnel over the next five years, does industry have a strategy to cope with that?

Statistics show that industrial manufacturing plants will lose more than 40 per cent of their maintenance personnel over the next five years.

Only 10 per cent of these businesses are estimated to have a strategy to retain the intellectual capital that will depart with those employees.

In light of these figures, SKF Reliability Systems has developed @ptitude to provide manufacturers with advanced asset management capabilities.

As an industrial decision support system, @ptitude helps organisations retain, build and utilise their intellectual capital.

The @ptitude system integrates data from multiple sources, including the intellectual capital left by departed workers, into an easy to use application.

As a structured, automated process, @ptitude reduces variability and improves efficiency through optimising knowledge, machinery and personnel resources, to enable a consistent methodology for efficient and effective decision making, for improved business results.

The @ptitude system consists of four distinct parts.

First, @ptitudeAlert analyzes extensive data from condition-based maintenance systems and extracts symptoms from measurements to indicate an asset's health.

@ptitudeView then allows a user to easily manage information for Asset Efficiency Optimization.

It documents, prioritizes and displays machine-reliability and maintenance results, will alert personnel to abnormal conditions and will generate work requests within computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS).

Asset Knowledge Science then defines the diagnostic method for an asset, creating a systematic process that reduces the variability associated with manual efforts based upon individual experiences.

The final part of the @ptitude system is @aptitudeXchange, which provides an on-line source for asset management knowledge at http://www.aptitudexchange.com.

This fee-based knowledge source provides access to the global expertise of SKF, as well as its alliance partners, providing a knowledge bank of documents and interactive decision support services.

This reduces the time required to find information related to Asset Efficiency Optimization.

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