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Helping oil and gas industries with electrical asset maintenance solutions

Digital transformation technology

Reduce downtime and increase personnel safety with continuous monitoring for electrical assets

Hitting productivity goals and ensuring workforce safety are two key objectives for oil and gas managers. Whether operations are up-, mid-, or downstream, or marine (LNG, FPSO), these challenges are shared across the energy sector.

Repairing and restating electrical assets and critical machinery as a result of an abrupt outage can be expensive, time-consuming, and involve unsafe manual inspection.

To eliminate the risk of unexpected electrical equipment failures that would otherwise compromise personnel safety and interrupt production, oil and gas companies must utilize new and more efficient maintenance methods. The installation of sensors that monitor critical electrical assets 24x7 can provide valuable condition data and insights for equipment such as LV/MV switchgear, MCCs, UPS, PDUs, and dry transformers.

IIoT-driven technology leverages data from sensors that monitor equipment status to detect faults and identify anomalies.

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The benefits of condition monitoring for oil and gas industries include:

  • Continuous monitoring of critical machinery with real-time health data that helps identify faults in advance of failure
  • Maximize uptime and equipment reliability
  • Digitally transform electrical infrastructure by leveraging advanced analytics and data visualization tools for decision making
  • Maintenance activities can be tailored based on the actual condition of assets
  • Efficient operation of equipment for maximizing production output and optimizing resource utilization in oil rigs and refineries

Just 3.65 days of unplanned downtime a year can cost an oil and gas company $5.037 million.

- Kimberlite Research

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CTM solutions:

CTM solutions by expertise

Engineering

Improve workforce safety

  • Enhance safety around electrical assets
  • Reduce electrical hot work risk
  • Evolve to predictive maintenance
  • Optimize asset availability and performance

Operations

Increase operational uptime

  • Maximize electrical power uptime
  • Detect faults in advance of an outage
  • Reduce the likelihood of asset damage associated with electrical failures
  • Ensure systems remain available

Transformation

Acquire data from electrical assets

  • Continuously monitor electrical asset temperature
  • Get access to essential asset condition data
  • Utilise data in analytics dashboards for continuous improvement
  • Manage risks, reduce costs, improve performance

Finance

Increase return on asset investment

  • Help protect your electrical asset investment
  • Get advance warning of power failures
  • Reduce the need for costly maintenance schedules
  • Install fit and forget sensor technology

CTM solutions by industry

Data centers

Data centers rely on a continuous supply of clean electricity, making power outages a constant and critical threat. Condition monitoring sensors are the key to obtaining the data that is fundamental to digitizing your electrical maintenance.

Condition monitoring sensors can be installed in electrical components such as LV/MV switchgear, MCCs, UPS, PDUs, and dry transformers. Sensors provide an early warning to alert personnel when and where a potential electrical failure may occur.

Oil and gas

Hitting productivity goals and ensuring workforce safety are two key objectives for oil and gas managers. Whether operations are up-, mid-, or downstream, these challenges are shared across the energy sector.

Eliminate the risk of unexpected electrical equipment failures with new and more efficient maintenance methods. Thermal sensors monitor critical electrical assets 24/7 and provide valuable condition data for equipment such as LV/MV switchgear, MCCs, UPS, PDUs, and dry transformers.

Heavy industry

Unexpected failures in power distribution disrupt the ability to keep water flowing. Maintaining the electrical assets that power water treatment processes are key to ensuring better facility uptime and operational efficiency.

Power to water pumps is managed by motor control centers (MCC), which are essential to ensuring facility uptime. By monitoring MCC’s 24/7, engineers can detect electrical equipment faults in advance of a failure.

Logistics

With refrigeration so vital in the food service business, electrical connections must be inspected regularly as part of refrigeration maintenance programs to prevent operational meltdowns due to power loss.

The threat of lost stock due to refrigeration downtime means organizations need to be looking to solutions that digitize electrical asset maintenance and minimize the risk of electrical failure. Continuous monitoring for critical electrical assets is the key to ensuring operational uptime.

Critical infrastructure

IIoT is irreversibly changing the way equipment is operated and maintained. It connects the internet to electrical/mechanical infrastructure and process machinery to enable condition monitoring data to be acquired.

It's more important now than ever to be focusing attention on the benefits of continuous monitoring as opposed to inspection, and accept that this change to digitized maintenance is inevitable.

Retail

E-commerce continues to grow exponentially; this puts enormous pressure on fulfilment centers when it comes to customer expectation of fast delivery. A vital part of this process is the ability to move / sort packages as quickly and efficiently as possible via motorized conveyors.

Operational uptime for each motor is therefore essential, meaning a malfunction of a motor on the conveyor system can quickly lead to costly downtime and even shutdown of time critical core operations.

CTM solutions by partners

Sales Agent

Step up your game as your customer’s trusted partner of choice, by promoting digitally enabled equipment and solutions and through customer lifetime value selling.

Installers

Strengthen your value proposition through digital IIoT offerings and help your customers by deploying and scaling digital solution retrofits and upgrades.

OEM

Sharpen your profile, stand out, and gain a competitive edge by offering digitally enabled equipment and solutions and via customer lifetime value selling.

Distributors

Sharpen your profile, stand out, and gain a competitive edge by offering digitally enabled equipment and solutions and via customer lifetime value selling.

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