Condition based Maintenance (CbM) is a process that determines what must be done to ensure that any plant asset continues to function in the desired manner based on actual operating and processing condition of the facility.  Avantis asset and condition management software fully supports organizations that have chosen to use Condition based Maintenance strategies to optimize their maintenance spend and plant performance.  The Avantis solution includes the ability to monitor, capture and analyze operating information required to initiate action and perform maintenance when required to prevent failure. 

Condition based Maintenance (CbM) endeavors to predict impending failure based on actual operating data instead of relying on traditional Preventive Maintenance thus generally eliminating unnecessary maintenance performed on simple manufactures schedule recommendations.  Condition based Maintenance also improves the availability of the facility due to improved planning that accompanies automated online CbM strategies.  The benefits include:

1. Avoids unnecessary maintenance by performing maintenance when it is actually required. Over 25% of maintenance done today is unnecessary and can introduce additional failure risks.
2. Provides early failure detection to increase asset availability thus reducing costs and avoid unnecessary downtime. Unplanned outages represent an average of 5% in lost production, where the impact is often much more significant.
3. Supports continuous improvement through an integrated workflow management capability, ensuring accurate and consistent response to developing conditions
4. Provides operations, engineering and maintenance with easy access to current asset information for better decision making
5. Provides integration with the control, safety and maintenance environments.

Additional Value

• The solution enables organizations to turn data into actionable information to help reduce maintenance expense while simultaneously improving throughput.
• Enables the use and standardization of workflows for other monitoring solutions and data collection required with point solutions.
• Enables tracking of equipment activities and statistics not normally maintained in asset historians.
• Provides a repository to capture the conditions, rules, and other tacit knowledge applied by experienced maintenance and reliability personnel thus allowing your organization to retain that intellectual property as the workforce changes due to aging workforce and increased mobility