Providing Scalable, Cost Saving Solutions to Improve Conditional Awareness of Your Enterprise Wide Assets.
ESRG’s OstiaEdge™ Monitoring Suite enables Machinery OEM’s to remotely monitor the health of assets under warranty or service agreement. The OstiaEdge™ Monitoring Suite enables fleet wide analysis of machinery health and can provide early warning of design problems propagating throughout the install base. The OstiaEdge™ Monitoring Suite can be utilized to track machinery run hours and load usage (capacity factor) on the install base to enable parts forecasting for inventory projections and control.
The OstiaEdge™ Monitoring Suite is utilized today to monitor air compressors, gas turbines, diesel engines, air conditioning units, and many other types of machinery. ESRG’s experience with monitoring and diagnostics of steam plants, gas turbines, and nuclear power machinery enables our engineers to provide your design teams and service personnel the expertise needed to create diagnostic/prognostic rules and algorithms to ensure installed machinery is properly operated by the end user.
An example of how OstiaEdge™ can benefit an OEM is reflected in the following case study. A gas turbine reliability engineer was reviewing data related to an issue with lube oil pressure during startup of an installed gas turbine generator. The issue had been flagged by automated rules monitoring the startup event. As part of his analysis, the engineer used the OstiaEdge™ Monitoring Suite to perform comparison of startup events across the entire fleet he was responsible for monitoring. The comparison revealed that the lube oil pressure issue was occurring during startup events on multiple turbines. Further analysis with the OEM revealed that the problem was related to a design change and was present on every unit manufactured after a particular date. Individual asset monitoring would not have recognized this problem, and by analyzing the data with a fleet approach, the scale of the fleet wide problem became clear. Utilizing OstiaEdge™, the OEM could have pro-actively identified and corrected this problem before the customer presented it as a warranty issue.
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