End-to-End Reliability and Maintenance (Case Studies)
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End-to-end reliability & maintenance in the manufacturing industry focuses on leveraging digital solutions to predict, prioritize, and prevent equipment failures, ensuring seamless operations. By integrating advanced analytics, IoT sensors, and AI-driven insights, manufacturers can transition from reactive to proactive maintenance strategies. This holistic approach enhances asset performance, minimizes downtime, and drives operational excellence, aligning reliability with overall business goals.
9:00 am - 9:15 am - Non-destructive Evaluation of Concrete Structures in Industrial facilities - Faird Moradi, Director, FPrimeC Solutions Inc.
Concrete structures are an integral part of industrial facilities, and their structural integrity is crucial for safe operation. To ensure this integrity, routine and planned inspections, as well as condition assessments, are necessary. Although inspection and maintenance activities are essential to keeping concrete structures safe and functional, several limitations—such as short downtime, operational priorities, and limited budgets—can impact the inspection and condition assessment processes, as well as the associated fieldwork.
Non-destructive testing (NDT) solutions offer effective ways to assess the condition of concrete structures without significantly impacting facility operations or causing downtime. NDT enables the assessment of larger areas, allows for more targeted inspections, and provides more accurate insights into the current state of concrete structures. This facilitates better prioritization of remedial actions and maintenance needs.
This presentation examines case studies from various industrial facilities to illustrate the practical benefits of NDT methods for condition assessment, maintaining structural integrity, enhancing safety, and extending the service life of concrete structures in industrial environments.
9:15 am - 9:30 am - How UltraAnalytix ® NDT inspection and Assessments Benefit Shutdown Planning and the Plant /Reliability /Maintenance Personnel - Rob Kohli, Engineering Analyst, UTComp Inc.
A commitment to predictive maintenance for FRP tanks, piping and pressure vessels can pay off in the long run. UltraAnalytix NDT inspections used to support predictive maintenance programs monitors the performance and condition of equipment under normal operations over time to determine its Fitness For Service and reduce the likelihood of failures.
UTComp helps to plan and budget for a predictive maintenance program that provides a clear, ongoing picture of the current condition and mechanical integrity of FRP assets. This approach avoids shutting down operations, cleaning out processing equipment and risky confined space entry.
Reliable FRP equipment is critical to the uninterrupted operation of many industrial facilities. As time is of the essence, plant managers that are striving for maximum up time require an efficient non-destructive and non-intrusive inspection to determine Fitness For Service and to plan for any necessary repairs or replacements.
By quantifying the condition of the polymer, UltraAnalytix inspection ensures the safety and performance of all FRP equipment and can save millions of dollars in unnecessary repairs or replacement and loss of production time costs.
9:30 am - 9:45 am - Catalyst Dense-Loading Theoretical Presentation - Richard Hanson, Innovator in the Refining & Petrochemical Industry, Stronghold Companies
Catalyst dense loading is a specialized technique used in the refining and petrochemical industries to load catalysts into fixed-bed reactors. Unlike traditional “sock loading,” where catalysts are poured through a flexible sock, dense loading employs mechanical devices to distribute the catalyst more uniformly and compactly within the reactor. This method maximizes the amount of catalyst that can be loaded per unit volume, enhancing reactor performance. Dense loading reduces void spaces between catalyst particles, allowing up to 15-25% more catalyst by weight to be packed into the same volume compared to sock loading. This increases the reactor’s processing capacity and throughput.
