Prescriptive Health Monitoring for Tank Process Variables

Tank operations are one of the most important operations within the production process industries. In many processes, they represent the element responsible for maintaining the continuous movement of raw materials, semi-finished products, auxiliary services, and finished products. An unplanned failure can cause significant economic losses, safety risks, environmental impacts, and production of noncompliance.

Traditionally, these are monitored through levels, but we do not access the rate of change of their process variable. However, through the PlantPAx libraries, particularly by using the P_AI objects and the Cfg_HasRoC parameter of this library, it is possible to implement a Prescriptive Health Monitoring strategy capable of detecting early signs of operational degradation before a functional failure occurs.

The solution makes it possible to identify abnormal trends, changes in process dynamics, and progressive deviations that normally go unnoticed by traditional monitoring systems.

What does this application do?

In day-to-day operation, the value of a prescriptive solution is to provide the operator and maintenance personnel with enough time to act before the failure impacts the operation, thereby preventing the pump from potentially failing and avoiding the losses associated with not taking corrective actions.