KPIs for Asset Management: A Pump Case Study

Sammanfattning: The integration of multiple data sources and the convergence of process control systems and business intelligence layer such as the enterprise resource planning (ERP) are paving the way for important progress in plant operation optimization. Numerous companies offer “Analytics Services” to leverage this newly available mine of data but applications still appear to be limited to certain specific types of large plants. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is arguably the most used approach to make sense of large and complex systems in a wide variety of fields and its applicability to industrial operations is more and more common, to the extent that standardization of KPIs has become a major topic for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). While the KPI standard ISO 22400 focuses on KPIs for manufacturing operations management at the plant level, the scope of this thesis is to bring it to the first layer of the control system: the equipment. In addition to being part of the quest for operational excellence and energy efficiency, bringing KPIs to the asset level is an important step towards integration of the different layers of the automation pyramid, integrating in particular control and scheduling. Developed within the frame of the new generation of Operations Management Software for the process industries, this work presents a case study on the most widely used assets in the field – pumps, based on operational data of different plants in the Oil & Gas and Chemicals industries.