OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE
A cooling system fitted with the innovative monitoring technology
Predictive maintenance firm brings novel solutions to oil & gas market
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n expert in predictive maintenance for Industry 4.0 has designed and brought to market a universal, turnkey and stand-alone solution for monitoring equipment and preventing breakdowns. Flexible, adaptable and scalable, it is already installed on many industrial sites in different sectors, covering a wide range of use cases. Now, the company behind the technology, Asystom, has entered into technological alliances with key players in the oil & gas sector to develop a sector-specific solution. Te innovative technology takes the detailed operating imprint of a machine to monitor and alert any drift or malfunction in real time. Te objective is to improve the productivity – and therefore the profitability – of the production units by avoiding unscheduled shutdowns. Asystom’s first ATEX zone 1 certified beacons are enabling the firm to offer oil & gas players access to the predictive maintenance 4.0 technology developed by the company. Te AsystomSentinel EX beacon monitors not only vibration in three-axis and heat but also ultrasound too, enabling users to have the earliest possible alert of drift while operating safely in the hazardous environments. Its ATEX/IECEx certification and intrinsic safety allow it to
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be used in areas at risk of explosion (Zone 1) in the petrochemical and chemical industries, in particular. Te sensors communicate through a LoRa network and are data-encrypted end to end. Tey run on standard batteries (so no need for additional wiring) for up to 10 years without intervention. An additional advantage of LoRa is that due to its low frequency wireless transmission, the sensors can be positioned up to 1km away from the LoRA gateway. Data is processed at the edge on the sensors and then the information is transferred and stored in the cloud through an encrypted secure network and then accessible through a web-based application (an on-premise solution option
is also available). Te database can easily be integrated into a customer’s existing platform
FIRST OIL & GAS DEPLOYMENT Te first installation of this new solution was made at Total ABK in March 2021 on an offshore platform located off Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, for the monitoring of a set of critical pumps operation. “Our predictive maintenance solution convinced Total with its ease of implementation, its record autonomy of 10 years and the quality of its prediction algorithms, based on data from multi- sensor beacons integrating vibration and ultrasound analysis,” says André Naccache, managing director at Asystom. “Total, which supported us throughout the product development phase, wanted to install this solution as soon as possible to benefit from this technology and increase its digitalisation programme. Other installations are currently underway, both in France and internationally,” he adds.
The AsystomSentinel ATEX beacon
TECHNOLOGICAL COOPERATION In a further development, Archer and Asystom signed a cooperation agreement in February 2021, allowing the Norwegian company to offer predictive maintenance
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