Plant-based Asset Management
makes it possible for the maintenance engineer to unambiguously identify and discriminately assess assets such as
components, systems and plant sections in order to be able to take suitable measures at the right time with as
little overhead as possible for the purpose of safeguarding the required availability. Great importance is
given to fast acquisition and proper evaluation of the relevant state variables. The objective is to efficiently
eliminate any faults or malfunctions which occur and to minimize the potential for future problems.
Different tasks, different information requirements
From the viewpoint of the machine operator, it is primarily information about the production process itself
that is of interest while the job of maintenance is to request information about the state of the production equipment.
Different tasks, different information requirements
Whether the problem is machine operation or machine maintenance, it is the plant's HMI systems, and therefore mostly
SCADA stations, which serve as interface between human and machine or plant. It is these over which the relevant
user is supposed to be able to find precisely the information important to his task without being flooded with
extraneous information. Within the framework of intelligent maintenance strategies, HMI and SCADA systems play a
central role in plant-based asset management.
