Amid overlapping global crises and countless marketplace upheavals, companies from every sector are looking to shore up their operations against future disruptions. Industry insiders have long seen improving asset health monitoring and maintenance as a winning strategy to achieve resilience, agility, and efficiency.
However, it can be hard to identify which digital tools will deliver the maximum impact, and harder still to convince diverse groups of stakeholders that they should prioritize a given project over another. After all, what department wouldn’t benefit from additional resources? In the end, a solid business case for prioritizing spending on asset health and predictive maintenance comes down to demonstrating fast return on investment (ROI).
As with any aspect of digital transformation, scalability is key. Predictive maintenance, enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, needs an easy-to-scale solution that maximizes ROI up-front and continues to build returns as an organization further refines its digital capabilities. But how do executives determine the most cost-effective place to start?
Identifying your
predictive
maintenance priorities
Many organizations already use real-time data
to conduct condition-based maintenance of their
assets. Given recent supply chain disruptions,
however, insight into spare part delivery time
becomes much more important. Risk-based maintenance
integrates aspects of reactive, preventative,
condition-based, and predictive maintenance
techniques, as well as spare parts inventorying to
improve asset availability and build resilience.
No matter where your organization is in its digital transformation, identifying where to invest for maximum returns is pivotal. Enterprises should look not only for discrete software but scalable digital solutions that are part of a robust portfolio. Aveva Asset Strategy Optimization, for example, lays the foundation for higher-level capabilities. With Aveva Asset Strategy Optimization, organizations can assess asset criticality, which they can use to prioritize the assets they will focus on with predictive analytics.
Aveva Asset Strategy Optimization gives a clear overview of all your assets, helping you pinpoint reliability investments with ROI in mind. It lets you tailor strategies to your company’s unique position. For example, if leadership is looking to further a sustainability initiative, Aveva Asset Strategy Optimization will show you which asset strategy will best achieve that goal.
Scalability drives ROI
The use of AI has become commonplace for
detecting asset performance irregularities. The
belief persists among some, however, that algorithms
are the most important part of any predictive
maintenance program. In reality, an algorithm
only accounts for a small fraction of the comprehensive
solution needed to deploy a holistic
predictive maintenance strategy.
Aveva Predictive Analytics is one such scalable, comprehensive solution. It incorporates AI models that provide early asset performance anomaly detection and extensive diagnostics to create the right insight from all data sources. The solution’s asset libraries provide reliability data that describes the best remediating actions in the event of a failure, allowing you to minimize downtime and act quickly to address equipment health and performance problems enterprise wide.
To achieve maximum ROI, any complete predictive and prescriptive maintenance solution must be easy to scale and operationalize for all stakeholders, not just data scientists and software programmers.
Solutions like Aveva Predictive Analytics can be easily scaled to encompass a single asset in one plant to all your assets worldwide.
Why Aveva?
The insight into asset criticality Aveva Asset Strategy
Optimization provides, coupled with the easy-to-scale benefits Aveva Predictive Analytics delivers,
demonstrates that Aveva’s solutions represent
the most comprehensive predictive and prescriptive analytics portfolio
in the market, ensuring maximum ROI.
Operating a reliability centered maintenance (RCM) program can be a resource-intensive process. Because Aveva Asset Strategy Optimization enables collaboration between experts and non-experts, you can minimize the time it takes to collect and verify information. Users can input data directly into a web-based interface, which is then easily accessible to reliability engineers at any time, anywhere. Using this method, teams have cut the time it takes for an RCM study by half. Aveva Asset Strategy Optimization accelerates RCM from study to deployment by bringing together people and data. With Aveva’s Asset Strategy Library, deployment time of asset strategies can be sped by up to 90%.
Through native integration to the Aveva PI System, the solution is highly scalable. You can monitor a single asset, plant, or a whole host of remote assets across multiple sites, allowing you to scale continuously with a minimal IT footprint.
Aveva Predictive Analytics makes it easy for users to train proven algorithms quickly and operationalize them. Prescriptive actions, coupled with integrated fault diagnostics, speed up asset remediation. No-code architecture allows a wide range of users to quickly implement model management strategies using templates. The solution also shows users a time to failure forecast.
When deployed in tandem, Aveva Asset Strategy Optimization and Aveva Predictive Analytics create an easily scalable, comprehensive predictive and prescriptive maintenance toolkit, ensuring maximum ROI and allowing you to achieve your predictive maintenance goals.
