Preventing A Major Break Down - Shoreline | Industrial Automation

Shoreline Predicts pump bearing failure for a large oil and gas midstream company preventing a major break down

Alarm advisory details on ShorelineAI APM platform:

1. An abrupt rise in Total Vibration Energy on Pump NDE bearing triggers an alarm.

2. An e-mail with relevant links (to ShorelineAI platform) is sent to users.

3. Diagnosis and recommended actions are accessible on ShorelineAI cloud platform as well as the phone app.

4. Trend-charts, and Spectral analysis plots supporting the diagnosis are available as well, on the cloud platform and in the ShorelineAI phone app.

Supporting data:

Trend data shows a rapid rise in vibration readings starting 28th June. Trend also shows a quick reduction in vibration levels once process settings are corrected to match the hydrocarbon fluids being pumped.

Corrective actions taken by customer:

Within a few hours of the alarm annunciation via Shoreline phone app. customers’ engineers modified the process settings to match the NPSH requirements as per pump’s best efficiency point.

Conclusion:

Quick correction of process settings, in response to ShorelineAI’s alarm messaging, helped bring the pump operations back to near-best-efficiency point. Elimination of cavitation in centrifugal pumps improves pump-efficiency, thereby saving energy consumption, besides extending pump MTBR and equipment-residual-life.

About Shoreline AI

Shoreline AI’s plug-and-play asset performance management delivers breakthrough simplicity and cost efficiencies. Completely self-installed by non-experts, smart sensors automatically connect to the cloud and are auto-provisioned via a rich library of 30,000+ pre-built asset physics models.

This cloud-native approach requires no new CapEx, on-site experts or data scientists, operationalizing in days and delivering powerful machine-specific analytics. This highly secure, 100% subscription approach creates unprecedented industrial APM economics and scales easily for new applications such as emissions monitoring.

Shoreline AI helps clients in asset-intensive industries maximize the performance and profitability of their operations, create a proactive and predictive approach to asset management, and accelerate sustainability initiatives. The company’s solutions are designed for machinery serving the energy, manufacturing, pharma and data-center cooling industries.