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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 |
I'm at the Boeing Future of Flight facility in suburban Seattle for the first day of the OMAC symposium. This session is a brainstorming / get issues on the table session led by a Boeing facilitator. It's not really reportable, but it is interesting to see the variety of views and needs of the attendees. The session was almost evenly split between end users and technology providers, with me (the lone editor) as the "tie breaker" ;-} Over the two days industry leaders (if they are here, by definition they are leaders) hope to set an agenda and roadmap for future work of the organization.
I've been attending and reporting on OMAC for 10 years, and I've seen it accomplish some very good things. I've also seen it flounder at times. This often coincides with some very strong leadership (always end users, by the way). But the leaders are volunteers who can't always spare a lot of precious time. That's why it's essential that more people step up. The end user companies represented firmly believe in the value of this work for their companies.
1:38:44 PM 
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Honeywell Process Solutions, collaborating with Swedish bearing manufacturer SKF, has introduced the OneWireless Equipment Health Monitoring (EHM) solution. This solution is a complete system encompassing a field mountable product that connects to sensors that include measurements in vibration, acceleration, velocity, temperature and bearing condition. This product connects via the OneWireless network, in this case using wireless Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, to a gateway to the wired network where health monitoring software sits on a personal computer. The field device includes eight channels-four for vibration and four analog 4-20 mA.
The EHM software can deduce probable bearing defects, misalignment, pump cavitations and impeller wear. The software can then translate the data into alarms that can be configured to appear in the plant's distributed control system (DCS) and Honeywell's asset management platform. Additionally, the system can be installed in less than four hours on a pre-installed OneWireless network and readily integrates with Honeywell distributed control system (DCS). If a plant does not have an installed OneWireless system, Honeywell is currently offering OneWireless EHM starter kits, which contain everything necessary to wirelessly monitor between four and eight plant assets, depending on individual facility needs.
1:16:27 PM
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© Copyright 2007 Gary Mintchell.
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