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1. Product Tip - A Site Specific Alarm Strategy
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PRODUCT TIP - A Site
Specific Alarm Strategy
In working with our
customers we see a huge range of skill levels and understanding of Oil Analysis
alarm limits and how to use them. Common
questions are "..should we use lab alarms or site
specific alarms?"; "If we set our own, what should the limits
be?"
Both the lab and the site
have valuable expertise to apply to the challenges of Oil Analysis. Many sites use only lab services to trigger
alarms. Augmenting this with site specific
expertise has many benefits.
1. Maintain Your Lab Alerts
Your lab has many years of
expertise built into their alerting rules and limits. If you stop using their alerts, you throw
away a valuable service. Lab alerts
should be kept operational at least as a first line of defence
or safety net - different labs have different levels of sophistication of alert
triggering. You can then augment these
with levels tailored to your operation.
Most labs provide some kind of overall sample rating field in their
electronic result file. This field is
used by Dingo Software to trigger exceptions.
The field will be called something like OVERALLALARM, RATING, EVALCODE. If you are
unsure what this field is for your lab, contact Dingo. This field should be left in all of your
alarm groups so that lab alerts will trigger exceptions.
2. Augment With Your own Alarm Levels
You can then add your own
specific levels to each alarm group.
Breaking it down to the 3 main areas of fluid analysis helps determine
how to
start:
Fluid Properties
These are
non-machine-specific and most labs do a good job of flagging problems here, so
leave them till last unless you have specific needs that are not being met.
Contamination
There are industry
guidelines published on acceptability levels for particle counts and ISO
cleanliness codes. Check how your lab
uses these and satisfy yourself that levels are appropriate for your
operation. If you are right into a
proactive regime and controlling contamination tightly to achieve component
life extensions, it is unlikely that standard lab alert limits will meet your
needs. In this case, add your own levels
to the appropriate alarm groups.
Machine Condition
This is where you can really
make a difference with your own alarm levels.
Use your site breakdown history and oil analysis history to determine
appropriate trigger levels for the machine condition indicators. Techniques for
doing this using FleetOil will be the subject of the next issue.
If you have any questions,
contact me at aling@dingos.com.
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FROM THE LAIR -
Imagine receiving equipment
condition alerts wherever you are. Maintenance Personnel are often out and
about in the plant or on the site, making it difficult to receive information
about equipment condition. A system that
would email, page or message your mobile device wherever you are would mean you
get notification of alerts, perhaps even while you are near the equipment in
question.
Interested?....stay
tuned for news of Dingo's upcoming Lube Browser!
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