Edge Analytics Can Change the Way You Monitor 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.
Embedded Auto Analytics for Critical Assets
Simple Pumps
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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
AMS Asset Monitor is an edge analytics solution that continuously monitors equipment condition and analyzes asset health directly at the source to identify developing equipment issues.
AMS Asset Monitor is commonly used for pumps, fans, motors, blowers, heat exchangers, and other critical production assets.
AMS Asset Monitor is a unique edge analytics solution that combines continuous machinery monitoring, process monitoring, and embedded diagnostics in a single platform. Unlike traditional online monitoring systems that often require specialized software, vibration expertise, and extensive infrastructure, AMS Asset Monitor automatically detects common equipment faults and delivers actionable health insights through an intuitive web-based interface.
Designed specifically for balance-of-plant assets such as pumps, motors, fans, and gearboxes, it helps organizations extend predictive maintenance coverage to more equipment without the cost and complexity typically associated with enterprise-scale monitoring systems. Its flexible CHARMs-based architecture simplifies deployment, reducing wiring requirements and installation costs while allowing users to collect both vibration and process data from a single device.
Unlike many monitoring solutions that require additional software for analysis and reporting, AMS Asset Monitor includes built-in analytics and native web-based tools that provide fault detection, alerting, and asset health visibility out of the box. Embedded analytics can identify issues such as bearing defects, misalignment, imbalance, looseness, lubrication problems, cavitation, and other common machinery faults, allowing maintenance and operations teams to make faster decisions with less reliance on vibration specialists.
By combining easy installation, edge-based intelligence, process and vibration data collection, and out-of-the-box analytics, AMS Asset Monitor makes continuous online monitoring practical and cost-effective for a much larger portion of the plant than traditional monitoring approaches.
AMS Asset Monitor combines condition monitoring with embedded analytics, enabling local fault detection and earlier identification of developing equipment issues.
The solution can help identify vibration issues, bearing wear, cavitation, process abnormalities, temperature changes, and other developing equipment problems.
AMS Asset Monitor continuously evaluates equipment condition and generates actionable insights that help maintenance teams prioritize work and reduce unplanned downtime.
Yes. Many organizations use all three solutions as part of a comprehensive reliability strategy. AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor provides broad condition monitoring coverage across many assets, AMS Asset Monitor delivers advanced diagnostics and analytics on critical equipment, and AMS 2140 supports route-based inspections, troubleshooting, and in-depth machinery analysis when additional investigation is needed.
Intuitive, Web-Based, Native Analysis and Reporting Software
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.
Embedded, Patented Advanced Analysis Techniques
Users can conduct advanced automated vibration monitoring and analysis with Emerson’s PeakVue™ and PeakVue Plus technologies.
Simple Installation; Smaller Footprint
Designed to mount at the asset and reduce cabling and other installation costs; wired or wireless Ethernet deployment for greater flexibility.
CHARMs-based Condition Monitoring
Accommodates up to 12 CHARMs to 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.
Use with Powerful Industrial Software Platforms
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.
AMS Asset Monitor with AMS Machine Works
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. 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.
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The AMS Reliability portfolio helps Reliability Engineers, Maintenance Technicians, Operations Managers, Automation Engineers, Instrumentation Specialists, Process Engineers, Control Valve Specialists, Vibration Analysts, and many others do their jobs more efficiently—from field, to workshop, to boardroom, and beyond.
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Specifications
Channels |
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Up to 12 CHARMs |
Collection Modes |
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Simultaneous or Independent |
A/D Resolution / Dynamic Range |
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24 bit / Greater than 100dB |
Amplitude Accuracy Deviation |
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<1% |
Repeat Accuracy |
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<2% of Full Scale |
Units |
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SI (Metric) or Imperial (English) |
Frequency Units |
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Hz, CPM, Orders |
Scaling |
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Linear |
Monitor Internet Protocol |
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OPC UA |
Monitor Daisy Chain (up to 8) |
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(2) 100Mbps Ethernet Ports |
Monitor Backhaul to Plant Network |
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(1) 1Gbps Enternet Port |
Dimensions mm(in) |
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238(9.4)H x 384(15.1)W x 196(7.7)D |
Weight (with CHARMS) |
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7.3kg (16.3 lbs) |
Operating Temperature |
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-40 to 55 °C (-13 to 131 °F) |





