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Release 2.0 of System 1™ Moves Bently Nevada into Plant Asset Management Market |
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For more information: Steve Sabin Corporate Marketing Manager Bently Nevada Corporation 1631 Bently Parkway South Minden, NV 89423 Phone: (775) 782-3611 Fax: (775) 782-9337 E-mail: steve.sabin@bently.com  Hi-resolution .jpg file (534KB)  Hi-resolution .jpg file (665KB) For other image formats, contact tannis.causey@bently.com. |
MINDEN, NEVADA, 24 September 2001 - Bently Nevada Corporation today announced the release of version 2.0 of its System 1™ Machinery/Asset Condition Management™ platform. According to Brad Law, Bently Nevada Market Manager for Control and Automation Systems, Plant Asset Management (PAM) systems require three basic components: Maintenance Management, Reliability Management, and Condition Management. "System 1™ has been designed to fill the Condition Management role," notes Law, "and expands well beyond Bently Nevada’s traditional focus on only rotating machinery by adding condition monitoring capabilities for virtually any plant production asset such as vessels, heat exchangers, boilers, valves, instrumentation, piping, reactors, and any other equipment used as part of a plant’s process." Law is quick to point out that System 1 "retains the strong core of condition monitoring capabilities focused on rotating/reciprocating machinery for which Bently Nevada is globally recognized. We’ve simply added to System 1 the tools needed to extend condition monitoring to all plant production assets - not just the machines we’ve traditionally addressed." Randy Chitwood, VP of Engineering, observes, "System 1™ is, without question, the most complex software development we’ve ever undertaken. It is a wide-ranging platform linking online and offline data acquisition sources, interfaces to process control, reliability, and maintenance management systems, and condition monitoring tools into a unified system rather than a collection of stand-alone applications. While the development complexity has been magnified, the customer benefits of an integrated, unified system are clear. We’re aiming to be the ‘Microsoft® Office’ of Plant Asset Management with a suite of integrated tools and applications that work together seamlessly. Release 2.0 of System 1™ gives us critical mass in this important market and subsequent releases will only further our capabilities." Steven Riggs, Bently Nevada Sr. VP of Sales and Service, is similarly upbeat. "The May 2001 ARC Advisory Group Study on PAM and Condition Monitoring (CM) confirms several things: PAM is the hottest thing going right now in the process industries’ push for competitive differentiation, Bently Nevada enjoys the leadership role by a wide margin in the combined PAM and CM market, and growth in this market through 2005 is expected to be double-digit. With System 1™, we’re positioned to ride the wave. And with a global Services organization trained and skilled in everything from proper transducer selection and installation, to System Integration and Networking, to Remote Asset Management, we are prepared to deliver a complete CM/PAM solution based on world-beating software. We’re already a strong presence with the very customers who are showing interest in CM/PAM, and we’re already delivering value with our machinery management solutions in the majority of plants worldwide. To now offer a system that lets these customers address more than just machinery assets is natural - we’ve even engineered the system in such a way that our legacy software can 'plug in' to System 1 in most cases, offering a very attractive migration path to System 1’s enhanced capabilities. We’ve made it easy to move beyond machinery to other assets. We understand how to manage assets through condition-based criteria because we’ve been doing it for 30+ years. We have the right relationships, the right knowledge, the right product, the right services to assist in implementing PAM, and unmatched credibility with customers - I couldn’t be more optimistic about our prospects for success. An additional feature contributing to System 1’s appeal is its ability to provide Decision SupportSM advisories based on a customer-configurable knowledge base and rule set. Law clarifies: "We pioneered the use of expert systems that relied upon ‘first principles’ and ‘crisp logic’ in diagnosing machinery malfunctions. While others were generating lists of possible malfunctions and corresponding probabilities, we were generating advisories that were appropriate for Operations personnel to act on in real time. Operators don’t want to know that their machine ‘might’ be unbalanced or that a pump ‘might’ be cavitating. They want someone to tell them what is wrong with certainty, and offer corrective actions they can implement in real time." Law continues, "System 1™ will add integrated Decision SupportSM capabilities in release 3.0, and we fully expect this to be the primary way that users will interact with their Condition Management system - not to review megabytes of data and plots, but to write rules which reduce this data into faults and corresponding actions to be taken by plant personnel. Our Decision Support module allows users to embed their knowledge into the system as well as their own procedures to take when a fault condition is detected, and totally configurable options for who in the plant is notified and how they are notified. The beauty of System 1 is that it extends these capabilities beyond just critical rotating machinery to all classes of production assets - something our customers have been clamoring for us to provide." Bently Nevada Corporation is the world’s leading supplier of machinery protection and management solutions, and maintains nearly 100 sales and service offices in the principal industrial centers of 43 countries around the globe. It provides a comprehensive scope of products encompassing vibration monitoring instrumentation, software, advanced bearing designs, engineering services, lubrication condition monitoring, and fundamental rotor dynamic research - all with a common objective: helping customers protect and manage their machinery and other plant production assets. System 1™ and Asset Condition Management™ are trademarks of Bently Nevada in the United States and other countries. Decision SupportSM is a service mark of Bently Nevada in the United States and other countries. Microsoft® is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. |
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