6.05 Assets Performance & Health Monitoring

Vibration measurement has come of age in the last 20 years.  While the practice of continuous on-line monitoring of critical machines in the oil, gas, and petrochemical industries has been commonplace for several decades, it is only recently that companies who had been using intermittent data collection techniques are now embracing continuous monitoring.  This session will discuss that the new horizon for continuous monitoring is mobile equipment; draglines, shovels, bucket-wheel excavators, stacker-reclaimers, heavy haul trucks, are all equally important to production and just as critical as a gas compressor.  Participants will learn that, unlike stationary machinery, monitoring mobile equipment brings substantial challenges that must be addressed to ensure accurate, repeatable, and reliable data acquisition.  Rapid speed and load variations are just one element of the application.  The logistics of sensor mounting, cabling, network communications, and general serviceability bring unique complications to the task of monitoring these machines.  Ron will discuss these obstacles and present new solutions that have the potential to bring significant reliability improvements to large mobile equipment.

In 2012, Calgary Water launched a comprehensive program (Secondary Water Supply Facilities Rehabilitation Program) which included assessing the condition of 18 pump stations. The result of this program ranked Shaganappi Pump Station as the most critical based on the condition of the equipment, the relatively large population and number of critical institutions it services. Listen to this webcast and learn how this Calgary Water effectively implemented a condition-based maintenance strategy for this pump station, and how you can utilize some of the learnings in your own environment to minimize and control risk, and create an effective infrastructure. 

For many years Cameco Corporation has been successfully applying for and receiving energy based rebates from the Ontario Power Authority (OPA). In this presentation you will learn about the many rebate programs available to your organization, how they work and what the application process is. Learn about how Cameco has been replacing and upgrading equipment, and being reimbursed based on these energy rebates, while also benefiting from more advance and lower cost operating equipment. Also learn about similar programs in other provinces.

In 2012, Water launched a comprehensive program (Secondary Water Supply Facilities Rehabilitation Program) which included assessing the condition of 18 pump stations. The results of this program ranked the Shaganappi Pump Station as the most critical based on the condition of the equipment, the relatively large population and number of critical institutions it services. In this session you will learn how this pump station effectively implemented a condition-based maintenance strategy, and how you can utilize some of the learnings in your own environment to minimize and control risk, and create an effective infrastructure.