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: Profits and reliability from improved controls: 5 easy steps
Watch our webinar on finding the right way to ensure production reliability and efficiency through improving your controls.
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Webinar: Improving sustainability with better controls
In this webinar, you will learn to use modern tools and approaches to improve sustainability. Sustainability helps you to meet today’s needs without sacrificing the future. Digital tools and services can be leveraged to reduce waste, save energy and chemicals, and to streamline the work for plant personnel.
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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: 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: PSA (Pressure Swing Adsorbtion) valve monitoring
Valves on pressure swing adsorbers (PSAs) are faced with some of the most demanding operating environments. These valves are subject to fast and frequent operation, with tight tolerances for leakage, coupled with split-second demands for operation. This webinar explains Neles’ approach to monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing performance of PSA valves.
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How to achieve better control system reliability?
The control system is a considerable investment for any large process plant. It can represent up to 10% of the total facility cost.
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Webinar: How to control a cascade system
What is the key to get control of the primary controller? There is a theory to faster recovery from a disturbance. Learn how to make sure your cascade controls are working properly.
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