Partnership in the truest sense

Is your company faced with the increasing importance of quality, occupational health & safety regulations and environmental considerations? At the same time, are you tasked with improving plant efficiency and reducing operational costs?

Working with you, Endress+Hauser combines automation know-how with your experience of the process, in order to find the right approach to maintenance.

A balanced approach to maintenance

With Installed Base Audit, you can move forward in a controlled manner to a maintenance plan which improves plant reliability while reducing costs.

Installed Base Audit:

	Make the right decisions in terms of focusing your maintenance efforts according to your available resources and production requirements
	Reduce the complexity of an older plant that includes different makes of equipment and large variety of instrument types
	Identify your out-of-date plant documentation
	Define the necessary actions to handle higher demands on production quality and availability
	Fulfill the highest safety requirements

Installed Base Audit is a service which consists of auditing and analysing an installed base of process instrumentation. Its main objectives are to find the right balance in maintenance and to obtain the maximum availability of the measuring points by solving potential problems such as:

	Decrease of maintenance efforts
	Reducing the complexity of the installed base
	Technical documentation review of the installed equipment
	Quality and safety requirements

Our experienced service team use special tools to collect and document your installed base.

Endress+Hauser technicians will use a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) tool to record electronically all your instruments in order to bring data consistency and to avoid human errors.

Your installed base centrally organized!

Documenting the installed base from the start of commissioning through to the maintenance stage can be of great help in maintenance management.

The W@M portal is a unique and open tool that allows you to document, in a structured way, all devices installed in your plant. Multiple search fields allow you to review and analyze by location, application, loop and device, giving an up-to-date view of your plant, simply and quickly.

The W@M portal uses an open web-based platform. Data inventory is stored on your portal and can be accessed at any time by registered users using the web browser. All your important documents related to the specific devices including CAD drawings, certificates, operating manuals etc. can easily be attached.

The portal is open to all types of instruments, valves and actuators, irrespective of manufacturer.

All data can be exported in a structured format (Excel or XML for example). The W@M portal can also exchange data with other Plant Asset Management or Maintenance Management tools, allowing you to benefit from additional information.