Energy Saving and Cost Minimizing with Predictive Analytical Tool (PATHER)
Chaiitanya Bulusu
Senior Vice President || Business Head - North, Central and South America
Many establishments and facilities today cherish the value that predictive maintenance brings to the table, yet only 12 percent of commercial facilities are currently using these tools. My experience in the manufacturing industries tells me the reason to be a lack of internal resources as well as ongoing costs involved in monitoring the pulse of their equipment.
But predictive maintenance should not be treated as a luxury. Predictive analytical technology can actually save you money, especially where it hurts the most—your energy expenses. According to the Department of Energy study, maintenance techniques targeting energy efficiency can result in up to 20 percent savings annually.
Preventative Maintenance is Not Enough
Even as with ordinary preventative maintenance schedule machines are checked manually for visible signs and symptom problems, these checks are not able to discover and expect all kinds of potential breakdowns and disasters– mainly at their early tiers. Worse still, if something starts to deteriorate every week after a periodic preventive maintenance test you're caught ready until the subsequent scheduled test before it’s observed. All the whilst these machines are running inefficiently, losing power, and riding up running costs.
Contrast this by using a visual predictive tool such as Ani-Mish, in which condition-based tracking maintains tabs thru system readings at the maximum minute audible and inaudible tiers. Periodic diagnostics can pinpoint future or pending breakdowns, enabling you to make small, satisfactory-tuned fixes ahead of time when they may be relatively much less expensive than they can be later.
In the absence of a predictive method, operations and maintenance fees will stay excessive. Running the defective or laggy machine is costing you a lot of capital every month. A machine with minor bearing wear or a slight misalignment uses greater energy than one working optimally. Both of those troubles are detectable with predictive maintenance (especially, ultrasound and vibration evaluation). While the issues are greater reported, emergency expenses or unplanned shutdowns/ breakdowns are even more painful. Despite the fact that such incidents are rare, an unexpected chiller breakdown in between annual checkups can force end-users to depend on pricey equipment/machines. Energy costs for these reactive fixes are typically through the roof.
Cut Out Energy Waste with Predictive Maintenance
All-in-all, it’s clear that predictive maintenance is now not something an enterprise can avoid. And it’s no longer just with large equipment or an expensive machine—a whole lot of strength is without a doubt wasted by means of small equipment running inefficiently. While many preventative maintenance plans may regularly check chillers because they are expensive, pumps and fans are typically ignored because they’re smaller and cheaper. This results in a “run until failure” mentality, even though these machines can make-up the largest part of a facility’s wasted energy. The tools available for classic Preventive maintenance routes clearly do not allow for a complete evaluation of all these machines, notwithstanding their prevalence and substantial energy footprint.
Now not so with predictive maintenance.
Start small in transitioning day-to-day predictive maintenance. As you run your typical Preventive maintenance routes, you can easily inject predictive maintenance techniques into your day-to-day routines. Start compiling an asset listing and getting an initial baseline on the condition of your machine or equipment. Once you have got that, you can start prioritizing daily jobs based on the real condition of every machine, thereby supporting budget and resource planning. Finally, don’t get discouraged in looking for these hidden possibilities for power and energy savings. Over time, establishments that continually locate, track, and correct those hidden energy “leaks” will see full-size cash benefits. There’s no time to begin like the present.
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