Leading Edge: Comprehensive, Proactive Asset-Management Solution

Several products of interest to the maintenance and reliability community were introduced at the recent 2015 ARC Industry Forum, including the following:

The Maintenance Response Center from Schneider Electric is a predictive maintenance software tool for plant maintenance supervisors. According to the company, the new offering helps drive a proactive maintenance culture that reduces the cost and risk of unnecessary trips to the field and improves operational uptime.

The Foxboro Evo process automation system combines the Maintenance Response Center with the company’s Field Device Manager, offering a comprehensive, proactive asset- management solution that gives plant personnel a real-time view of their plant’s health, as well as a complete history of the latest predicted or discovered faults and deeper diagnostics of field equipment.

Among other things, maintenance technicians will benefit from comprehensive analysis capabilities and highly customizable reports to perform diagnostics directly from their workstations or mobile devices for safe and quick remediation. The software program also serves as an ERP-connected plant-triage tool, providing supervisors with a detailed view of field-device health, event analysis, reporting functions and integration with the work-order system for improved performance monitoring and resource management.

The Maintenance Response Center solution will be available in April 2015.

Schneider Electric
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