Catch of the Month Oil & Gas: Uncovering Hidden Reliability Issues Control Station, Inc. Control Station, Inc. 160 Chapel Road 160 Chapel Road – – Manchester, Connecticut 06042 Manchester, Connecticut 06042 – – USA USA www.controlstation.com www.controlstation.com Output Travel is one of several Key Performance Indices (KPIs) used by PlantESP to assess asset health. It measures the amount of effort applied by an FCE to maintain control. The trend shows a steady increase in Output Travel with it approaching a constraint at 72.2% of its daily limit. Once addressed by engineers the KPI dropped to 26.1%, extending the valve’s mean time to failure by nearly 3x . How did PlantESP find it? Important details related to FCE health are hidden in a plant’s process data. KPIs like Out

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