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Bently Nevada is an asset protection and condition monitoring hardware, software and service company for industrial plant-wide operations. [1] Its products are used to monitor the mechanical condition of rotating equipment in a wide variety of industries including oil and gas production, hydroelectric, wind, hydrocarbon processing, electric ...
Bently Nevada manufactures and sells asset protection and condition monitoring hardware, software and services for industrial plant-wide operations. Bently Nevada opened its first international office in 1969 in the Netherlands. It gained recognition as the leader in the field. [3]
In 2002, the division acquired Bently Nevada, a condition monitoring instrumentation company that provides services for sensors, systems and monitoring machinery vibration. Products included plant asset management systems related to vibration monitoring, machinery protection, software and engineering services.
Condition monitoring by a simple head-flow test near duty point using repeatable measurements has long been used but could be more widely adopted. An extension of this method can be used to calculate the best time to overhaul a pump based on balancing the cost of overhaul against the increasing energy consumption that occurs as a pump wears.
A popular approach to tracking fixed assets uses serial numbered asset tags, which are labels often with bar codes for easy and accurate reading. The owner of the assets can take inventory with a mobile bar code reader and then produce a report. Off-the-shelf software packages for fixed asset management are marketed to businesses small and large.
Deterioration models developed based on Markov chain consider the condition of asset as a series of discrete states. For instance, in the case of pavement deterioration modeling , the PCI can be categorized into five classes: good, satisfactory, fair, poor and very poor (or simply 1 to 5).
Asset health management includes many different methods which can sometime overlap in their intended scope and methods. Asset health management has become a difficult field to discuss due to the use of the same acronym to describe multiple different approaches and the use of the same approach with different names.
Facility condition assessment is an analysis of the condition of a facility in terms of age, design, construction methods, and materials. [1] [2] The individuals who perform the assessment are typically architects and engineers, and skilled-trade technicians. Engineering and architectural professional opinions as to the conditions observed are ...