METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING THE OPERABILITY OF A PRODUCTION PLANT

• US 20090094080A1
• Filed: 10/09/2008
• Published: 04/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Abb Oy (ABB Limited)
• Original Assignee: Abb Oy (ABB Limited)
• Inventors: LUOTOJARVI, Mika
• Application Number:
  US12/248,273
• Publication Number:
  US 20090094080A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.15
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/4184 characterised by fault tolerance, reliability of production system
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0283 Predictive maintenance, e.g. involving the monitoring of a system and, based on the monitoring results, taking decisions on the maintenance schedule of the monitored system; Estimating remaining useful life [RUL] preventive maintenance, i.e. planning maintenance according to the available resources without monitoring the system G06Q10/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063114 Status monitoring or status determination for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/02 Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/80 Management or planning

Abstract

A method for improving the operability of a production plant is invented. The production plant has at least one production process comprising at least one equipment, a system for obtaining equipment condition measuring data and a system for obtaining maintenance work data. The equipment condition measuring data and the maintenance work data is continuously acquired and stored to equipment reliability calculation system, and equipment reliability is calculated based on the equipment condition measuring data and the maintenance work data.

Claims

1. A method for improving the operability of a production plant, where the production plant has at least one production process comprising at least one equipment, a system for obtaining equipment condition measuring data and a system for obtaining maintenance work data, wherein the equipment condition measuring data and the maintenance work data is continuously acquired and stored to equipment reliability calculation system, and equipment reliability is calculated based on the equipment condition measuring data and the maintenance work data.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein Proactive Overall Equipment Effectiveness is calculated as a product of the equipment reliability and Overall Equipment Effectiveness.

3. A method according to claim 2, wherein Proactive Overall Equipment Effectiveness is calculated in real-time by acquiring and combining the source information from the Distributed control systems, condition monitoring, Manufacturing Execution System, Computerized Maintenance Management System and/or other existing information systems in the industrial plant.

4. A method according to claim 2, wherein at least part of the production process or the operations of the personnel is controlled by Proactive Overall Equipment Effectiveness.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein the equipment condition measuring data and the maintenance work data is obtained real-time from at least one of the following in the production plant existing systems:

Distributed control systems, Condition monitoring system, Manufacturing Execution System and Computerized Maintenance Management System.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein the production plant is a pulp or paper mill.

7. A system for improving the operability of a production plant, where the production plant has at least one production process comprising at least one equipment, a system for obtaining equipment condition measuring data and a system for obtaining maintenance work data, wherein the system has means for continuously acquiring the equipment condition measuring data and the maintenance work data, and means for storing the acquired equipment condition measuring data and the maintenance work data to equipment reliability calculation system, and means for calculating equipment reliability based on the equipment condition measuring and the maintenance work data.

8. A software product data recording medium in which program code is stored, which program code will cause a computer to perform a method for improving the operability of a production plant, where the production plant has at least one production process comprising at least one equipment, a system for obtaining equipment condition measuring data and a system for obtaining maintenance work data, wherein the equipment condition measuring data and the maintenance work data is continuously acquired and stored to equipment reliability calculation system, and equipment reliability is calculated based on the equipment condition measuring data and the maintenance work data.