GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms , a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, today announced the availability of Proficy Maintenance Gateway 2.0 software to help customers avoid costly equipment failures and reduce asset maintenance costs.
The software enhances the GE Fanuc’s Proficy software suite by ensuring that maintenance operations are integrated into each company’s journey toward operational excellence. The product can scale up from a simple condition monitoring system to a sophisticated orchestration to help maximize asset utilisation and reliability.
“The timeliness of this product release in light of today’s global economic climate is important,” said Sheila Kester, Business General Manager, GE Fanuc Operations Management Software. “By keeping the Production and Maintenance departments ‘in-synch,’ an organization eliminates the costly delays in responding to the plant’s evolving operational dynamics. Furthermore, the continuity and accuracy in the information flow between production and maintenance teams allows the organization to take proactive steps to eliminate hidden costs before they’re incurred.”
The new release extends the proven capabilities of Proficy Maintenance Gateway by providing a new automatic measurement point update module, enhanced write-back functions from the enterprise to the plant systems, and new adaptors to Enterprise Asset Maintenance (EAM) applications, such as SAP’s PM module and newer versions of MAXIMO.
The broad range of connectivity options, ease-of-use by plant personnel, and ability to incrementally scale from small to large installations make the software solution desirable to companies in many asset-intensive industries.
Proficy Maintenance Gateway management software tracks and helps reduce the Mean-Time-To-Repair in “corrective maintenance” cases while working continuously to monitor usage of equipment and automatically ordering “preventive maintenance” orders for improved performance. The software is designed for maintenance and/or production personnel and there is no code to write and no need for IT overhead. Out-of-the-box EAM connectors accelerate deployments and reduce a customer’s time-to-value to days rather than weeks or months. Additionally, the enhanced rules engine offers more flexibility for time-based meters and status updates of Work Orders to the control system.
Proficy Maintenance Gateway software empowers companies to:
- Reduce equipment failure rates and unplanned downtime
- Improve first-pass quality and reduce waste
- Reduce turnaround time for repairs and planned maintenance costs
- Improve reliability and uncover additional capacity
- Track and manage reliability plans with rules and aggregators, including total uptimes or availability of individual equipment over a period of time
- Implement Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) strategies with increased analysis and refinement of RCM rules