What is Valve Condition Monitoring?
Valve Condition Monitoring is a diagnostic service focused on providing predictive analysis of your control valves, with the intent of identifying potential failures. With early identification of potential issues, you can act or plan for action, before a failure occurs and avoid costly unplanned downtime.
Implementing a Valve Condition Monitoring program for your valves is an important step to turn your process plant into a Top Quartile Performer.
How does Valve Condition Monitoring work?
Site Architecture Review
- Emerson cybersecurity experts review site specifications with your IT/OT team
- Final data communication architecture is agreed upon by all parties
Site Setup
- Detailed instrument configuration is performed
- Diagnostic tests are scheduled
- Secure First Mile™ data transfer methods installed and validated
Condition Monitoring
- Time-series analysis of valve data is interpreted
- Automated analytics process the data
- Data is reviewed weekly and urgent issues are communicated
- Formal reports are created monthly summarizing condition of valve assets
- Emerson conducts peer review for technical accuracy and consistency
Collaboration & Action Planning
- Emerson shares monthly report of data findings
- Monthly collaboration session is scheduled with your account manager and your service analyst to discuss solutions to identified conditions
- Service analysts are available to discuss valve repair strategies
The Power of Valve Diagnostics
By partnering with Emerson, manufacturers can collect vital valve health data from the field and provide more realistic valve failure information than could be generated through modeling. Our connected approach enables diagnostic data from multiple sources to be visualized and aggregated and allows team members located around the world to look and work on the same data in a collaborative manner. Analysts can view valve health data and look at valve condition history to determine trends and predict impending valve deterioration, which means valve maintenance can be scheduled and performed well before an operator alarm is triggered.
Below are several real-world scenarios of how we can help prevent valve-related problems.
“Having a remote monitoring system means we don’t have to worry as much about valve failures. With more—and better— information, we can order parts in advance, schedule repairs, and limit unexpected downtime.”
Dan Morris
Valve Technician, City of Ames Electric
