USING NEAR-REAL TIME MONITORING TO IMPROVE EQUIPMENT RELIABILITY
1.
2. PREDICT – ACT – PROTECT
• Predict - Equipment
monitoring provides
opportunities to extend
equipment availability
through predictive
maintenance
• Act – Data analysis creates
opportunities to better
understand operating
conditions for intervention
• Protect – Understanding
empowers corrective action to
protect and improve equipment,
even during transient operation
3. Equipment Monitoring – Current State
Operator
Monitoring
• Once per shift
• Limited data
points
• Time-consuming
• Low connectivity
to other systems
and groups
Process
Monitoring
• Process
variables only
• Limited visibility
outside operator
groups
• Limited
adjustment
points
Machinery
Protection
Systems
• Expensive
• Tied into
equipment
control
• Limited
fundamental
understanding
• Limited
equipment
Vibration Rounds
• Once per
month/quarter
• Time-consuming
• Requires highly
trained
personnel
• Time spent on
equipment with
no issues
• Misses idle
spare equipment
4. Predict
Act
Protect
Intelligent fluid motion Insight provides more opportunities to improve
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• Operator Monitoring
• Process Monitoring
• Machinery Protection
Systems
• Vibration Rounds
• 12 (or fewer) chances
per year to understand
Conventional
Methods
• Wireless Monitoring
• Trends every 30
minutes
• 17,280 opportunities
per year to Improve
Condition
Monitoring • Engineered Analytics
• Full insights every 30
seconds
• 1 Million opportunities
per year to Predict
Predictive
Analytics
5. 5
IoT Solutions Based on Equipment Criticality
WIRELESS CONDITION MONITORING
(80% of assets across balance of plant)
Near-time wireless monitoring (15/30 minutes)
with alerts, trends and instant notifications
PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS
(20% of assets that are
critical to production)
Real-time monitoring
and diagnostics with
recommendations
Critical Systems: 5% Key Processes: 15% Balance of Plant: 80%
6. Complete IoT Solution:
1. Customers need insights to detect problems
before they lead to downtime.
2. Flowserve Monitoring Center helps customers to
understand field readings and provide corrective
actions.
3. Flowserve’s Insight portal provides a secure
visualization and predictive analytics cloud platform,
tailor made for pumps, seals and valves monitoring.
4. Flowserve’s wired and/or wireless sensors
installed on equipment reliably gather performance
data.
5. Flowserve’s Global Quick Response Centers are
ready to support customers and take recommended
actions.
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Cloud
PlantMaintenance
PlantOperations
and Planning
PlantReliability and
Engineering
GlobalFlowserve
Service Network
Flowserve Monitoring
Center
Pumps,Seals
and Valves
Flowserve IoT System Design
PREDICT ACT PROTECT
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Red Raven prevented failure from cavitation event on
60-year-old Flowserve water pumps in steel mill
• US based steel mill facing long standing flow recirculation issues on river water pumps
• Flowserve predictive analytics quickly detected and diagnosed operating conditions
• Team provided improved operating regime to prevent further failures and how to improve efficiency
• Customer able to adjust operations and return equipment to service quickly
Red Raven unique predictive analytics can not only detect,
but also diagnose failures … before they occur.
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Red Raven empowered a plant operator to quickly detect, diagnose, and
prevent equipment failure … allowing them to provide stable, reliable power
• UK power plant facing on-going reliability and unpredictable maintenance issues
• Flowserve cloud-based condition monitoring and predictive analytics installed on flow control equipment
• Red Raven within days detected upstream boiler upset conditions and prevented catastrophic pump damage
• Customer able to adjust operations and return equipment to service quickly with Flowserve field support
Red Raven enables digital, real-time connections between customers, their
flow control equipment, and Flowserve technical experts
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Red Raven’s customer support capabilities helped a UK
power operator prevent further damage or injury
• UK based power plant had a “unusual” vibration event just after midnight on a cooling fan
• Red Raven condition monitoring detected the anomaly, and our team notified the operator
• Customer adjusted operations until visual inspection in the morning revealed a significant “bird strike”
• Further damage to the fan and the surrounding equipment was avoided
Red Raven provides automated alerts and alarms on critical operating equipment,
and can help prevent further damage to surrounding equipment and personnel
14. The IoT Journey to Improved Reliability
Predictive Analytics
Artificial Intelligence,
Digital Twin
System
Condition Monitoring
• Wireless connectivity
• Historical trends and
comparison
• Alerts & Alarms
• Wired data collection
• Wireless transmission to
cloud
• Algorithms to detect/predict
selected fault conditions
• Digital Twin modelling
• Simulate and then implement
• Leverage on Big Data
• AI/ML algorithms to predict fault
conditions
• System level analytics on
the connected process
• Energy transition
• Energy efficiency
Rotating Equipment
• Pumps
• Fans / Blowers
• Agitators
• Conveyors
Valves
Seals – coming soon
Motors – future development
Full-System View
Editor's Notes
For further details, contact Francesco Gasparri: Fgasparri@flowserve.com
RedRaven Diagnostics Enable Streamlined Power Supply in the UK
Challenge
To maintain high standards of delivering uninterrupted supply of power an energy company in the UK was looking for a way to upgrade condition monitoring processes and leverage next-generation predictive analytics capabilities.
Solution
SSE explored cloud-based condition monitoring options with predictive analytics for feed pump performance and maintenance. Today, SSE wirelessly monitors their plants, receives near-real-time upset condition alerts, and more accurately predicts when pumps will require maintenance with RedRaven.
Empowering plant operators to prevent unnecessary disruptions
The Utilities business unit of SSE Enterprise (SSE) delivers energy to local industrial estates in the UK, including several manufacturing plants. These estates rely on a stable power supply, and any disruption could result in substantial revenue loss and expensive fines. Industry-standard monitoring protocols include costly biannual site visits to check vibration levels. Too often, such visits only reveal limited, outdated pump condition and performance snapshots. Flowserve proposed that SSE consider RedRaven, an adaptive technological platform, enabling internet of things (IoT) services for flow motion equipment and systems. “Flowserve demonstrated RedRaven’s wireless monitoring solutions and analytics capabilities,” said Guy Hawkswell, Electrical Control and Instrumentation Engineer for SSE. “After they explained how the system securely transmits performance data and the various service levels with experienced technician data trend reviews, we decided to deploy a trial demo kit.”
RedRaven proactively identifies an upset condition
Flowserve installed wireless sensors on two boiler feed pumps and six auxiliary pumps. It wasn’t long before Flowserve technicians discovered an upset condition. While analyzing pump data, technicians noticed an increased load on the boiler. Data confirmed the pump was running a higher temperature and vibration level than usual. After investigating the issue, SSE and Flowserve analytics personnel identified fuel source as the root cause. Physical inspection further proved the boiler was burning abnormally wet wood, causing a boiler flare-up, raising the boiler feed water operating temperature. Although the flare-up may not have caused catastrophic damage, the incident proved the value of RedRaven’s Predict, Act, and Protect protocols in delivering SSE’s primary marketplace deliverable: uninterrupted power supply.
Streamlined maintenance protocols with RedRaven
Flowserve changed the frequency of data collection to yield greater insights, further enhancing SSE’s ability to proactively self-correct plant operations. Continuing through trial phase, Flowserve’s monitoring center personnel helped SSE respond to upset conditions and take action to prevent equipment failures. The ability to predict required pump maintenance enables SSE to distribute resources more efficiently. Now they can dispatch technicians only when necessary, instead of routinely sending technicians to inspect healthy equipment. And now, instead of requiring technicians to collect data and upload it to an internal system for analysis, the process is automated with SSE, greatly reducing errors, and expediting data delivery and analysis.
Perhaps the most significant benefit SSE is experiencing with RedRaven is the increased integrity of their supply stability. SSE’s customers are not concerned with IoT systems, equipment sensors, data trends or analytics. What’s important is that SSE consistently supplies them with power to run their operations. RedRaven increases SSE’s success in continuing to deliver on that promise. “It’s important for us to have Flowserve as a partner in this,” said Hawkswell. “They provide IoT solutions that are easy to understand and implement. And installation is very quick – in our case, it was under an hour. Flowserve also set up a stand-alone IoT system that didn’t interfere with our process or communications. RedRaven can collect our data, analyze it, and come back to us if there is a problem while we’re able to concentrate on our business.”
For further details, contact Francesco Gasparri: Fgasparri@flowserve.com
Flowserve has been at the forefront of exploring & rolling out the latest tech
We today have a platform ( RedRaven) capable of providing Condition monitoring and Predictive Analytic capabilities. We will continue to enhance these. ( Also to note – CM & PA have been launched, but the work do not stop as we continue to enhance these with latest tech and algorithms to detect even more conditions)
Digital Twin & ML AI is gaining rapid traction due to their advanced capabilities to tie real world and digital data, and this will fuel many of Flowserve’s capabilities
The path forward will be to continue to tie in at a system level for the connected factory and aid the customer in achieving the goals of their Energy transition journey