EPI*Center_

EPI*Center 3.0  is our flagship software. It combines the industry’s best-in-class predictive diagnostics with best-in-class technology to manage, control, and optimize industry maintenance and operations. 

Predictive Diagnostics—detect, diagnose, and prioritize impending failure: 
Protected by over 40 patents, EPI*Center 3.0 provides predictions of impending equipment and process failures--more precisely than and earlier than current condition-monitoring tools.

Recognizing that every piece of equipment is unique, and using all related sensors, EPI*Center 3.0 uniquely creates personalized, empirical models of each piece of critical equipment across all known loads, ambient conditions, and operational settings. EPI*Center 3.0 provides failure detection across the broadest range of developing problems and across the widest variety of assets and failure modes.
 

  • Works on all critical rotating and non-rotating equipment across industries
  • Leverages existing instrumentation, tools, and infrastructure
  • Is fast and easy to deploy—with quick payback
Three new applications—provide end-to-end functionalities, including:
  • A monitoring application with advanced analysis, easy reporting, incident management and workflow support, and powerful knowledge capture and recall.
  • An administrative application that assures security through reports on user activity and connection histories.
  • Fully internationalized applications across all languages.
  • API web services, with open, flexible interface that allows integration of EPI*Center into any application in the enterprise. 
"SmartSignal effectively uses predictive analytics to determine if a machine is operating normally. It’s able to predict when an abnormality is likely to lead to equipment problems, and it can do so weeks and sometimes months before the actual issue would occur. So, BP is able to plan effective remedial action ahead of a problem, rather than react after the fact. This lets us reduce and sometimes eliminate the cost of equipment issues, reduce lost revenue from equipment downtime, and increase safety by reducing incidents and the amount of time personnel are working on equipment problems."

Paul Stone
Chief Technology Office Director
BP
As appeared in World Energy
Vol 12, #1 – 2009

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