The health of your rotating equipment is a major factor in determining the health of your production capacity. Invensys Process Systems (IPS) Rotating Equipment Health solution enables you to effectively manage these assets by helping you advance in four major areas: 

1. Moving to a proactive and predictive model for Operations and Maintenance in a cohesive enterprise environment.
2. Leveraging leading indicators of the actual health of the asset (not a symptom of a problem) in conjunction with other process and equipment data from a wide variety of vendor.
3. Capturing the knowledge required to effectively assess and address the safe and efficient operation of aging assets before that knowledge is lost due to personnel attrition (aging workforce and staff turnover).
4. Increasing visibility, coordination and communication between Operations, Engineering, Maintenance and other departments to ensure that all decisions are aligned to deliver the maximum ROA.

The IPS Rotating Equipment Health solution utilizes a number of analysis techniques, including stress wave analysis and voltage and current analysis techniques to provide earlier detection than other commonly applied methods and in a broader range of applications.

• Bearing Faults - The number one cause of failure for rotating equipment is bearing faults.
• Slow Rotating Equipment - Other solutions are often unable to monitor and detect rotating equipment health issues for assets which operate at less than 60 rpm.
• Submerged Pumps - Equipment that is fully or partially inaccessible can be difficult or impossible to monitor with other solutions that require sensors to be placed in the proximity of the equipment. 

The IPS Rotating Equipment Health solution can also leverage voltage and current analysis techniques to provide continuous monitoring of submerged assets where sensor use is impractical. The IPS Rotating Equipment Health solution will detect all failure modes from early lubrication degradation problems, contamination and the early signs of wear, as well as subtle changes in the machine dynamics and the friction energy generated during operation.