Honeywell Process Solutions Uniformance Asset Sentinel technology

Honeywell Process Solutions has launched Uniformance Asset Sentinel, which continuously monitors equipment and process health, assisting industrial facilities to predict and prevent asset failures and poor operational performance.

The technology expands the Uniformance software suite and supports the emergence of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in the process industry, enabling companies to collect, organise and analyse data for a specific asset or ‘thing’. The analytics can help industrial plant operators avoid unplanned downtime and improve plant performance and safety.

According to the company, the technology helps companies increase utilisation of industrial assets by up to 10%, by reducing unplanned downtime. They say it can also cut maintenance costs by up to 15% by predicting and preventing catastrophic equipment failure and inefficient operations.

The technology works by continuously accessing data from a variety of sources, including process parameters, vibration data and alarms. Using a real-time complex event processing engine, it continuously performs performance, health, efficiency and safety-related calculations and compares those results of the current actual performance to an expected performance model. Predicted or detected deviations from these models are used to generate notifications to facilitate investigation and intervention to minimise the cost and frequency of an event.

The predefined best practice templates for equipment types such as pumps, compressors, exchangers, valves and turbines combined with an interface to the process design simulation software helps customers rapidly deploy equipment or process monitoring on any plant asset.