BROCHURE

Predictive Asset Analytics

Through your HMI and SCADA systems, your organization has already
experienced the impact that meaningful data has on your daily operations. Real-
time information, displayed in context, means your personnel can easily identify
abnormal conditions, focus their attention immediately on problems, and interact
with your machinery from anywhere in the world.

Your assets are continually generating huge amounts of information, but how
much of this data do you miss? How much do you not see, not interpret, and
not use? By reading and responding to this data effectively, you can get much
more out of what you already have. Asset Performance Management helps you
streamline your processes, increase reliability, reduce downtime, and achieve asset
performance excellence.
Achieve Asset Excellence

Improving reliability, performance and safety are Enterprise Asset Performance Management
among the top priorities of industrial plants and other Functional View
asset-intensive organizations, and businesses today
are focusing their efforts and resources on controlling
costs and maximizing value from investments already Asset Performance Management
made. Predictive Asset Analytics helps organizations
gain the highest return on critical assets by supporting
predictive maintenance (PdM) programs with early Strategize Analyze Maintain
warning detection of equipment issues ahead of
existing operational alarms. APM Business Operator Rounds/
Assessment Intelligence Digitized Work

More information is available about the health and

performance of your equipment than ever before, Risk Based Predictive/ Industrial
Maintenance Prescriptive Workflow
and sensors are communicating ever increasing
amounts of data in real time. Predictive Asset Analytics
Reliability Centered Enterprise Asset
gives users the ability to quickly transform raw data Maintenance (RCM)
Optimization
Management
into actionable insights to prevent equipment failure
and make smart decisions that improve operations. Asset Information Management
Equipment agnostic, Predictive Asset Analytics can be
configured to monitor assets regardless of equipment
type, vendor, or asset age without the need for
manufacturer specific asset information. Predictive Asset Analytics integrates with existing
data historian systems and can be combined with our
Condition Management, our solution for condition-
My organization already has an Enterprise based maintenance to form the industrial analytics
Asset Management (EAM) system. Why do toolset for a comprehensive Asset Performance
we need Predictive Asset Analytics? Management program.

Most asset-intensive organizations use EAM

systems to track and manage maintenance
processes and work orders. However, EAM
systems alone do not provide the advanced
pattern recognition technology used for
online monitoring of assets to provide early
warning notification of equipment failure.

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Predictive Asset Analytics - Overview

How Predictive Asset Analytics Achieves Early

The Predictive Asset Analytics Advantage
Warning Detection
Predictive Asset Analytics uses a proprietary algorithm 1 Reduce Unscheduled Downtime
called OPTiCS that uses Advanced Pattern Recognition 2 Prevent Equipment Failures
(APR) and machine learning technology. For systems
3 Reduce Maintenance Costs
with lower levels of historical repeatability, high noise,
or process driven systems, Predictive Asset Analytics 4 Increase Asset Utilization
uses a plugin for a predictive algorithm called KANN. 5 Extend Equipment Life
This algorithm allows user to create models that predict
6 Identify Underperforming Assets
future values for signals. The algorithm uses artificial
neural network technology and allows users to create 7 Improve Safety
operational profiles with a specific set of inputs and
outputs and to test how the outputs will evolve in the
Predictive Asset Analytics Benefits
future through data playback.
Predictive Asset Analytics software makes reliability,
160 performance and efficiency goals more achievable by
Traditional Alarm
allowing the user to address issues before they become
140
problems that significantly impact operations. With
120 continuous maintenance and reliability improvements,
Actual
additional benefits can be achieved. Unscheduled
100
downtime can be reduced because personnel receive
Predicted
early warning notifications of developing issues. Instead
80
of shutting down equipment immediately, the situation
can be assessed for more convenient outcomes.
First Pattern Recognition Alarm
60

Maintenance costs can also be reduced due to better

40
planning; parts can be ordered and shipped without
Predictive Asset Analytics makes it easy to identify anomalies and
provides notification of abnormal conditions before operational alarms. rush and equipment can continue running.

Predictive Asset Analytics learns an asset’s unique With predictive analytics, personnel know and
operating profile during all loading, ambient and understand the actual and expected performance
operational process conditions. Existing machinery for an asset’s current operational state. They
sensor data is input into the software’s advanced know where inefficiencies are and their impact on
modeling process and compared to real-time operating financial performance and can use this information to
data to determine and alert upon subtle deviations understand the impact of performance deficiencies
from expected equipment behavior. Once an issue has on current and future operations. This information
been identified, the software can assist in root cause also helps assess the risk and potential consequences
analysis and provide fault diagnostics to help the user associated with each monitored asset and can be used
understand the reason and significance of the problem. to better prioritize capital and operational expenditures.

Another increasingly important benefit is the capability

for knowledge capture and transfer. Predictive Asset
Analytics ensures that maintenance decisions and
processes are repeatable even when organizations are
faced with transitioning workforces.

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Avoided costs through early warning notification

$4,000,000+
avoided through early
identification of power
$500,000+ generation turbine $370,000
avoided due to blade damage avoided due to
early identification of early warning of pump
a plant motor coupling feedwater heater and
approaching failure bypass valve problems

Avoided
costs through
$250,000 early warning $250,000
avoided due to savings per year through
early warning of a Notification identification of pump
bearing seal differential inefficiencies for thermal
pressure problem performance improvements

$243,000+ $50,000+
avoided by early avoided through
identification of performance
improper control optimization
valve positioning

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Software Features

Predictive Asset Analytics integrates with a wide Alerts and Notifications

variety of data historian solutions, control and
Users can set alert thresholds to communicate when
monitoring systems and can be deployed on premise
the deviation between actual values and predicted
or in the cloud. The system is highly scalable and can
values exceeds allowed limits. Alerts can be managed
be used to monitor a single asset, a specific plant or
in a variety of ways including by category, level,
hundreds of remote assets across multiple sites. Results
criticality, duration and frequency. Each alert event
of the Predictive Asset Analytics models can be easily
is also directly linked to a graphical trend for that
integrated with other business systems through the use
asset that shows the event data, threshold limits and
of web services and an available restful API.
times when the values are in alarm. Relevant users
and groups can be notified in real time if an asset is
Server
in alert status through Predictive Asset Analytics’s
The software contains a server-based application customizable email notification capabilities.
that collects data from plant historians, predicts the
signal values and archives the results. Predictive Asset
Analytics Server detects anomalies, creates alerts and 15,000+
sends notifications. Predictive Asset Analytics is used to
Desktop Client monitor more than 15,000 assets globally.
The Predictive Asset Analytics Client is a desktop-
based application used to develop, train, validate
and deploy equipment models and alert notifications.
Sample assets monitored:
The Predictive Asset Analytics Client is equipped
with templates and a database of known assets and yy Compressors
conditions that streamline the model-building process,
yy Pumps
making it simple for users to create and maintain their
own models. The intuitive, graphically driven process yy Motors
allows models to be built in minutes rather than days yy Turbines
or weeks and does not require any programming or
yy Electric generators
detailed equipment knowledge.
yy Fans, Blowers
Web Access yy Heat exchangers, Boilers, Ovens, Kilns
The web-based application, Predictive Asset Analytics yy Water heaters
Web, is used to manage alerts, quickly retrain models
yy Pulverizers, Crushers
and analyze and chart model results. Predictive
Asset Analytics Web organizes alert information in a yy Condensers
hierarchical structure allowing users to identify systems yy Transformers, Breakers, Capacitors
that are in an abnormal state and then view the
yy Agitators, Blenders, Mixers
individual components of the alert for further analysis.
yy Gearboxes
yy Chillers
yy Industrial vehicles
yy Many more

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Software Features Contd.,

Data Analysis Calculation Engine

Predictive Asset Analytics includes a variety of The software includes an advanced calculation engine
advanced statistical and model-based comparison that provides the ability to develop simple and complex
applications and business intelligence tools that calculations to create pseudo or ‘virtual’ points. The
enable users to spend less time searching for potential results of these calculations can be used in Predictive
problems. Users have the ability to view the raw Asset Analytics models, allowing for greater system
training data, results of the model, compare the flexibility. The calculations can automatically back-
performance of similar assets of the same type, and calculate, making historical data available for the
view the effects of alerts. The statistical applications monitoring period before the current calculation was
interpret the data using visual representations so that created.
data scientists and equipment experts are not required
to interpret the results. Predictive Asset Analytics is Security
equipped with fault diagnostics capabilities to help the Predictive Asset Analytics software integrates
user determine the cause of the identified abnormality with existing enterprise security systems. The
and how to avoid it in the future. Diagnostic ability system supports single sign on authentication, and
reduces the likelihood that an engineer will attribute administrators have the ability to limit user access
abnormal operating conditions to the wrong variable. rights and editing privileges at a granular level.

Transient Module Monitoring & Diagnostic Services

The Predictive Asset Analytics Transient Module AVEVA offers comprehensive monitoring and diagnostic
provides the ability for online monitoring of abnormal services remotely or on-site. We can train you to deploy,
conditions during a transient, such as startups and maintain and monitor your own models, or we can do the
shutdowns. Predictive Asset Analytics is also able to monitoring for you. Our team of experienced engineers
automatically identify previous transient events from can assist you with every step of the process from model
the historian, which is useful for comparisons. training, to diagnostics, to best practices.

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Additional Products Available

AVEVA offers a comprehensive portfolio of software Mobile Operator Rounds

solutions that integrate with Predictive Asset Analytics,
Mobile Operator Rounds is the most comprehensive
including mobile applications, data historians, condition
mobile workforce enablement and decision support
management systems, EAMs, and more.
system. It enables consistent execution of Operations,
Maintenance, and Inspection activities to achieve
SmartGlance Mobile Reports
higher levels of plant safety, regulatory compliance,
Integration with Predictive Asset Analytics enables availability, reliability and performance.
users to monitor the performance of critical assets
on-the-go from any mobile smartphone or tablet. Condition Management
The SmartGlance App allows users to view and
Condition Management is a unique, intelligent real-time
analyze data and alerts—anywhere, anytime and from
condition management system solution that collects
any device.
and analyzes real-time diagnostics from all plant
production assets using rule based logic. The results
Enterprise Data Management
drive a condition-based maintenance strategy.
Enterprise Data Management is a real-time enterprise
data historian that bridges the IT/OT information gap. Enterprise Asset Management
It collects, stores, displays, analyzes and reports on
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solution
operational and asset related health information for
comprised of a set of integrated modules designed to
more timely and informed decisions.
enable improved asset reliability and real-time access
to information to manage maintenance and supply
chain operations.

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Monitoring and Diagnostic Services APM Assessment
Reduce maintenance costs and capital expenditures The Asset Performance Management (APM) Assessment
by leveraging our Monitoring and Diagnostics Services enables clear understanding of the current status of
Center for remote monitoring of your industrial assets the business and where improvement opportunities will
as a service. provide the quickest financial return which results in a
comprehensive action plan to execute against.
Risk-based Maintenance
The Risk-based Maintenance software module Control of Work
generates optimised maintenance and spare parts Plan and perform safe, compliant working on complex
strategies by first looking at the company’s business engineering assets. AVEVA Control of Work enables
strategy and objectives, and then prioritising actions asset operators to eliminate, minimise or mitigate
down to an individual asset level to maximise return on operational risk while optimising asset performance.
asset investment.
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