There are two important results that tell a company it has created a successful product: it sells a lot, and it wins awards. So far, Plantweb Insight has been doing well on both counts, and in the latter category it chalked up yet another award in the Plant Engineering 2017 Product of the Year competition.
The winners of the Plant Engineering 2017 Product of the Year awards represent the best in new ideas to help plants run smarter, safer, faster, and more efficiently. This year's winners were selected by Plant Engineering's readers from more than 100 entries. They reflect the new ideas to solve traditional problems, as well as innovations that will help better implement the new technology available today.
Brian Joe and Eric Rotvold (pictured) attended the CFE Media award banquet on April 16 where they received the trophy from Plant Engineering and also for the Control Engineering’s 2018 Engineers’ Choice award announced last February. Plantweb Insight won that one too.
This notion of automated equipment monitoring driving condition-based maintenance is not a new thing. Emerson has been doing it for years with its AMS Device Manager (which also won an award from Plant Engineering in the same product category), designed for larger and more comprehensive installations. Plantweb Insight is a much simpler application of the concept, designed to work with a whole new range of monitoring devices in conjunction with WirelessHART.
It’s the combination of devices and applications that is creating all the excitement. Plantweb Insight provides the means to launch a highly scalable equipment condition monitoring program capable of reducing maintenance costs substantially. From steam traps to pressure relief valves to motor bearings—a whole bunch of things that are normally maintenance headaches can be brought under control. With continuous monitoring and effective data analysis, it becomes far easier for a plant to keep things running on an even keel, with lower maintenance costs and uninterrupted production.
You can find more information like this, and meet with other people looking for condition monitoring solutions at the Emerson Exchange365 community. It’s a place where you can communicate and exchange information with experts and peers in all sorts of industries around the world. Look for the Pervasive Sensing Group and other specialty areas for suggestions and answers.
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