| Time: Tuesday, 24/Jun/2008: 10:00am - 10:45am Session Chair: Prof. Reinhard Langmann |
Location: V200 Keynote talks, sessions and tutorials |
Keynote address by Dr. Norbert Kuschnerus (Bayer Technology Services, Germany)
Process Analyzers are crucial for the production processes of the chemical industry. Therefore more and more online analyzers are used in order to get timely information about the chemical composition on different stages of the production process. This includes aspects such as product quality, yield, energy efficiency, production capacity, waste water and environmental control and safety. Highly available analysis values require automated analyzer systems with maintenance concepts based on asset management. Analyzer automation and asset management including system self diagnosis with detail visualization provides:
- early maintenance request messages to reduce system failures
- a minimum of personnel required for preventive maintenance
- trouble shooting support
- remote access and status information for efficient first level failure qualification.
The presentation describes the concept of automation and asset management for process analyzers based on examples and gives an idea of the added value of this concept.