| Asset management with FDT/DTM optimises assets |
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When it comes to the latest trends in process automation the terms ‘FDT/DTM’ and ‘Asset Management’ frequently crop up. The new technologies make it possible to achieve a previously unknown level of transparency in process engineering applications |
and therefore not only guarantee a high level of system availability but also an enormous savings potential for the operator.
In several business sectors, asset management has for a long time been more than just a fashionable buzzword. It involves nothing else than the management and optimisation of the assets integrated in a company. Whilst this type of management was already in existence before the term asset management became commonplace, an efficient optimisation of the “built-in” capital of an installation was not possible until new technologies were available.
Consequently there is a growing demand for asset management systems in an increasing number of process engineering sectors. These types of solutions are required to reduce maintenance requirements, provide information on plant status at any time and reduce operating costs. To achieve this, and keep the availability of the plant as high as possible, an asset management system needs to know the current state of the plant at any time.
Dynamic and static assets
This requires the definition of the assets of a processing plant that provide the system with plant status information. Nowadays, assets are classified into dynamic and static assets. Plant components that supply the asset management with system information are called dynamic assets. These consist primarily of process control components, field devices, motors or complete package units.
As these components are increasingly connected to the process control system via state-of-the-art fieldbus systems, a large volume of diagnostics and status information can be transferred digitally via the fieldbus without any effect on the process data...
The Author:
Dipl.-Ing. Tim-Peter Henrichs,
Productmanager Fieldbustechnology,
Hans Turck GmbH & Co. KG, Mülheim an der Ruhr
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