Emerson’s Asset Management Program Shines at Braskem

Braskem, a leading Brazilian petrochemical company, wanted to move away from costly reactive and preventive maintenance and employ a program of predictive maintenance. Braskem leveraged predictive diagnostic information from their smart assets throughout the plant to lower costs and boost productivity. Braskem implemented Emerson’s AMS Suite and CSI Technologies to help them manage and analyze their predictive diagnostics.

The predictive maintenance program quickly delivered measureable benefits. For instance, technicians were alerted to an open valve (which was previously thought to be closed), resulting in a savings of $297,500. Predictive diagnostics also identified excessive vibration in a pump. Braskem required this pump remain in operation in order to fulfill a customer order. They were able to closely monitor the pump to meet the commitment, thus ensuring that a multi-million dollar sale would not be lost to a competitor. Once met, the predictive diagnostics and trends enabled them to fix the pump with a minimum of downtime.

 Interested in more details regarding this successful predictive maintenance program?  Check out this article from InTech magazine and Emerson’s own Proven Results flyer.