In the past, monitoring these assets proved difficult due to wiring costs, hazardous conditions, or complexities related to installation. For critical assets, failure means substantial or total loss of production, often worth millions per day. For essential assets, the impact of an individual failure is generally less dramatic, but nonetheless important when the following are considered:

• Maintenance Costs - When viewed on a per-asset basis, maintenance costs for essential assets can appear modest. However, when viewed collectively across the dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of essential assets in a typical plant, these costs can be appreciable. Reducing the maintenance costs on each asset through effective condition monitoring - even by a mere 10% - has a large impact on plant profitability.



• Safety and Environmental Costs - Undetected failures of seals and bearings in pumps are just one example of scenarios that can lead to release of hazardous substances, fires, and even explosions. The impact of such incidents needs no elaboration and can be enormous - often resulting in total plant shutdowns and consequent loss of production.

Today, Bently Nevada’s Essential Insight system enables a permanent condition monitoring solution where you would never have thought practical or even possible. Combining advanced wireless technology with our best-in-class sensors and the proven analytical power of GE’s System 1 Condition Monitoring software, we’ve created a high-performance monitoring solution for essential assets that’s easy to install, more reliable and less expensive than wired systems, and backed by a world-class service organization with condition monitoring expertise second-to-none.

While the following list shows several particularly relevant aplications, the system can be used wherever you have assests that would benefit from periodic online monitoring and do not require auto-shutdown machinery protection capabilities. It can also be used as an easily deployed evaluation tool for a broad range of assets, before making the decision to permanently monitor.

• Outlying machinery requiring abnormally long wire runs
• Machines in batch service
• Small gearboxes
• Circulating water pumps
• Lube oil pumps
• Air compressors
• Motor/pump sets in tank farms
• Fin fans