What are we offering?

The field of Predictive Maintenance (PdM) is providing a strong and growing set of tools, techniques and technologies to optimize operations, maintenance and renewal processes of industrial assets. Condition monitoring techniques, in particular, yield valuable insight into the state of health of industrial equipment, providing clues and hints on expected future performance profiles and related risks of performance flaws. Cassantec is taking these clues and hints several steps further. Through the use of a leading-edge predictive computational model based on mathematical bestpractice techniques, we are able to provide structured, illustrative, quantitative and conclusive insights into expected reliability, remaining useful life (RUL) and latent malfunction risks of equipment, going far beyond conventional PdM offerings. Our Reliability Report is a periodical (e.g. daily) advanced and aggregated profile summary on complex, critical industrial equipment, allowing to schedule targeted service interventions and outages over various time horizons to optimize operations and maintenance processes. We provide this report electronically, either in a PDF format or as a MS Excel tool, including functions for illustration, exploration, validation and testing for reliability managers and in-house condition experts.

Why is this useful for you?

Cassantecs Reliability Report exceeds the benefits of conventional diagnostic reports through its prognostic power, aggregated scope and outage decision focus. Tangible, quantifiable benefits for maintenance budget providers include Reduced preventive maintenance costs (postponed outages) Reduced reactive maintenance costs (malfunctions caught early) Reduced fire fighting effort Benefits for reliability managers include Aggregated diagnostic insights Transparent prognostic insights over a 100-day time horizon Justifiable outage decisions Benefits for condition experts include: Exchange of experience on important condition parameters Shared ownership of alarm decision Contribution to next-generation prognostic reporting standards Hence, a Reliability Report addresses interests of multiple stakeholder groups through a mix of financial, operational and personal incentives, targeting reduced risk, cost and effort of inappropriate maintenance interventions and unexpected outages through advanced diagnostic insights and enhanced prognostic foresight.

Cassantec Reliability Report

Next-generation equipment condition monitoring, risk analysis, lifetime estimation and outage optimization

Cassantec Cassantec
Zurich, Switzerland Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.

Exemplary Reliability Report for critical industrial equipment

How does this work?

The basis of Cassantecs Reliability Report is a predictive computational model based on a novel and unique combination of mathematical best-practice techniques. In particular, the model combines advanced Markovian and Bayesian techniques to determine condition parameter trends, malfunction risk profiles, and remaining useful life (RUL) of critical equipment. Diagnostic and prognostic results are displayed in a decision-oriented report, allowing to identify redundant maintenance tasks and to retain only justifiable service intervention in the outage schedule. Our computational model is fed by two sets of equipment data: A set of historical condition and process data, typically including thermal, vibration and lubricant analysis results. If condition data is insufficient, or not archived at all, we may be able to provide comparable condition data from identical equipment models. A complete set of up-to-date condition and process data downloaded from the equipment. Condition data updates are necessary for automated updates of the Reliability Report. Our computational model allows numerous additional simulations, sensitivity analyses and statistical tests to ascertain the robustness of our diagnostic insights, prognostic foresight and recommendations. Some of these functions are offered through the MS Excel versions of our report.

Who is Cassantec?
Founded in Zurich, Switzerland in 2007, Cassantec (abbreviated for Cassandra Technologies) provides next-generation predictive technologies for equipment condition monitoring, malfunction risk analysis, remaining lifetime estimation and optimal outage scheduling. Our technologies are based on a novel blend of best-practice Cassandra, prophet of techniques from critical future events Operations Research, in the Greek mythology Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining. To render these technologies, Cassantec offers complete software solutions and complementary reporting services for leading companies in the power, chemical, petrochemical, steel, mining and other industries world-wide. Cassantec is led by an international team of accomplished professionals with strong methodology and technology backgrounds. We are being promoted by the Swiss governments CTI program, and cooperate with world-renowned universities. References include completed and ongoing collaborations with power and chemical corporations as well as with equipment manufacturers in the U.S.A., Europe and Japan. Cassantec is a strategic cooperation partner of Insight Services in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.

Where can you find us?

We are physically present in Europe and North America, and able to offer our products and services internationally. Please contact us by e-mail or telephone to obtain further information or a price quote for a Reliability Report. Please be prepared to provide a specification of the equipment type(s) and model(s). If you have established condition monitoring processes, we will need to arrange a download and transfer of condition data such as thermal, vibration and lubricant analysis data. If you are new to condition monitoring, we would like to provide a more thorough presentation for you.

Zurich Office
Cassantec Ltd. Technopark Zurich Technoparkstrasse 1 CH-8005 Zurich Switzerland T: +41 44 445 2260 F: +41 44 445 2261

Cleveland Office
Cassantec U.S. Office Insight Services Center 20338 Progress Drive Cleveland, OH 44149 U.S.A. T: +1 216 220 4890 F: +1 216 251 2515 E: info @ cassantec.com W: www.cassantec.com
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Last update: January 2010