PAS News - Focus on Asset Management

Asset Management - What Does It Mean?
This issue of PAS News is focused on what Asset Management is and how it can optimize your process automation equipment.
 
Plant-wide asset management encompasses field instruments, controllers, I/O, drives, motors, PCs, networking infrastructure, and process equipment and provides a means to optimize these valuable system assets.
 
Effective Asset Management is enabled by fieldbus technologies, such as PROFIBUS.  PROFIBUS provides valuable information about the health of the plant assets, and saves you wiring and installation costs. This fieldbus technology, combined with the knowledge of the process in your process automation system, enables plant asset management systems to help you reduce unplanned downtime and get the most productivity out of your process.
 
For more information on Asset Management, visit www.sea.siemens.com/assetmanagement.