Sugar is in virtually everything we consume, including alternative fuels in many parts of the world. It can take up to 18 months for new cane stalks to be ready for harvest, and harvesting is often done now by machines on large plantations. Processing and packaging often occur very close to the harvest location to prevent the harvested cane or beets from rotting.
Harvesting also typically occurs September to February, requiring the factories to be extremely reliable during this critical season. Consequently, a sugar refinery’s production reliance upon its machinery has never been more important. Downtime is ever more expensive, and Uptime ever more valuable. As an operator how can you know if you can push your machinery to its design capacity and beyond while remaining safe and maximizing the balance between useful life and capacity?
Unreliable assets have enormous consequences. What if your assets could consistently operate at or above their rated capacities for a greater percentage of total hours each year, all while spending less money on maintenance? That’s exactly what today’s best companies have discovered how to do.
Bently Nevada can help you cover every aspect of your condition monitoring program for greater reliability:
- Processes: We help customers assess their goals and identify reliability gaps in current processes so you can make the appropriate corrective actions.
- Tools: Our protection and condition monitoring products are world-renowned for unsurpassed quality. Our reputation for helping customers succeed is built on over 60 years of machinery and process expertise across nearly every industry. From wired and wireless sensors to continuous monitoring systems to portable data collectors and analyzers. And, it’s all brought together in a unified platform for asset condition monitoring and diagnostics –System 1® software.
- People: Bently Nevada is able to help customers change the way they work by addressing the organizational culture issues that keep companies mired in ineffective processes, helping them transform their businesses and balance sheets.