Expertune Valve Performance Management
Predict and prevent valve issues
Neles™ Expertune Valve Performance Management field service detects devices, such as valves and instruments, that disturb the process to create a foundation for efficient maintenance planning and action prioritization.
Benefits
Maximize reliability
Minimize unplanned downtime, extend valve life and improve valve performance.
Reduce risk
Improves health, safety and environmental results
Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TOC)
Focus maintenance resources, low cost, OpEx model
Expertune Valve Performance Management service
Valve Performance Management maximizes plant reliability by predicting and preventing valve-related issues.
Features
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Customized Turn-key service
- Work with your existing data and systems
- Includes all the software, services, and reporting you need
- Tracks and manages both high-level and technical KPIs
- Shutdown Prevention Alerts
- Prioritized Valve Repair Plan
- Shutdown Planning based on actual valve performance
- Neles' expertise applied to your valve information
- Valve Life Extension Plan
- Stiction Investigation and Repair Plan
- Valve Sizing Recommendations
- Valve Performance Training
- Learn to measure valve performance
- Learn how valve performance affects plant results
- Valve Performance Work Flow Program
- On-Site Investigation of Valve Issues
- Remote Consulting services
- Access to Neles' global valve experts
Benefits
- Reduce total cost of ownership
- Extend valve life: Identify sizing problems and performance issues that cause premature wear.
- Improve Valve Performance
- Resolve issues with excessive valve movement, valve sizing, air supply, stiction, air leakage, and configuration issues.
- Focus maintenance resources
- Improve communication, effectiveness and safety in maintenance operations.
- Focus attention on valves that need repair, and on ensuring valves will continue to perform until the next planned shutdown.
- Make better, prioritized decisions
- Fix the right problem
- Improved shutdown planning
- Right parts and services planned in advance
- Better daily management of valve issues
Articles, webinars and whitepapers about PID tuning and process control
All insight materials
Find all of the webinars, articles, podcasts and whitepapers by Neles control performance experts and learn how to optimize your production.
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Webinar: 7 Ways to monitor controller variability
The control system typically represents as much as 10% of the full cost of a new process plant. With such a big investment, you might like to know if the control system is doing its job. This webinar presents seven methods to analyze controller variability.
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Webinar: IIoT, Digitalization and Process Control
Process Control Systems are uniquely positioned as one of the first industrial systems that can leverage the IIoT. This presentation addresses the routine monitoring of industrial control systems themselves. This includes monitoring of the performance of not only basic equipment, such as instrumentation and valves, but also monitoring of control loops, control strategies, and process results.
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9 steps to achieve energy savings in process plants
The industrial sector alone consumes more than 50% of all the energy used in the world in manufacturing and production. Saving energy is more important than ever, as costs to the environment and to the bottom line are getting more attention. Especially in process manufacturing, energy accounts for a significant share of the operating costs.
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6 steps to better pulp & paper performance through consistency control
Consistency control has an immediate and direct effect on almost all aspects of the pulp and paper process. Problems with consistency control inevitably lead to quality problems, reliability problems, sheet breaks, lost production, and increased energy costs. These six steps can greatly improve the operation of consistency loops, bringing stability to quality to pulp and paper operations.
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Webinar: Workflows and KPIs for remote monitoring of valves and controls
When working remotely, you don’t always have access to all the resources of the plant facility. But you can have access to data streams that can measure valve performance, diagnose issues, and document improvements. This webinar teaches you to set up basic workflows for remote valve monitoring, as well as specific technical and business KPIs for reporting.
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Webinar: How to calculate the business value of control performance
Your plant can save millions with Control Performance. But, do you know how to measure and document those savings? This webinar presents several practical methods to identify, calculate, and document economic benefits from your control system. Use this information to show management the value of your work, to justify projects, and to improve your career.
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Webinar: Digital twins and valve diagnostics
How can you make sure the control system is performing, even when you are not able to be physically in the plant? This webinar shows you what and how to monitor critical KPIs and diagnostics for control system performance – remotely. You will learn how to evaluate and manage instruments, valves, and controls from afar, and know when to call for hands-on in-plant actions to resolve hardware issues.
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Webinar: Remote troubleshooting of control systems
How can you make sure the control system is performing, even when you are not able to be physically in the plant? This webinar shows you what and how to monitor critical KPIs and diagnostics for control system performance – remotely. You will learn how to evaluate and manage instruments, valves, and controls from afar, and know when to call for hands-on in-plant actions to resolve hardware issues.
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Webinar: See how plants are monitoring valves remotely – case studies
How to monitor valves remotely and how do we customize a solution to maximum reliability, reduce risk and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO). Neles’ Expertune Valve Performance Management service helps you manage the performance of valves, actuators, and positioners. Extend the life of your valve assets and improve reliability.
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Webinar: How to monitor advanced regulatory control
Advanced regulatory controls (ARC): How to monitor your ARC strategies, to make sure they are delivering their best performance all the time. Watch our webinar by Vincent Morehead, Senior Process Control Engineer at Neles to learn more about ARC.
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Webinar: Loop tuning – What can you do remotely?
Often, PID tuning constants are developed quickly, by guessing, or with unreliable methods. The outcome is increased wear on valves, shortened valve life, poor control, and inconsistent results. In this webinar, we will show you how to tune remotely with Expertune PID Loop Optimizer which is a PID tuning software designed to eliminate the guesswork.
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