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RECON
Improves Equipment Reliability, Client Relationships
Dresser-Rand, whose clients
face greater demands to lower operating costs and increase
profits, has established RECON, an array of performance and
condition monitoring tools to keep clients’ equipment operating
at optimum levels.
RECON integrates all of the condition monitoring technologies
and services offered by D-R, and offers decades of OEM engineering
experience. Among these services are RECON Remote, an advanced
program for collecting, analyzing, diagnosing and reporting
information from remote industrial machinery; and Global Access
MCTM, a remote monitoring system D-R introduced in 1999.
These technologies are particularly important to owners and
operators of equipment in locations not easily accessible to
experts, or where on-site personnel may not have the expertise to
identify equipment problems in a timely manner. RECON can prevent
costly downtime and increase the availability of critical
equipment.
D-R is positioned to provide clients with state-of-the-art
equipment monitoring and analysis technology, adding even greater
value to the high quality products offered by the company. These
capabilities unite a comprehensive group of remote equipment
monitoring systems and non-intrusive condition analysis and
diagnostics technologies.
"With RECON, we provide our clients who operate rotating
equipment with the ability to make critical decisions based on
comprehensive, reliable information, not just bits of data,"
said Roderic Gunn, manager, business development, D-R Condition
Monitoring. "This gives them the tools and the access to key
information that helps them manage their operations more
effectively for increased profitability."
D-R Condition Monitoring targets the company’s traditional
client base such as equipment owners and operators in the oil,
gas, chemical and petrochemical industries as primary clients for
RECON. The technology may be applied to other OEM’s equipment as
well.
RECON closes the loop for maximizing equipment reliability and
performance in an era when long-term equipment frame agreements
and service contracts such as those negotiated under D-R’s
Availability PLUS® program are becoming more appealing to
clients.
"In the past, the maintenance of rotating equipment was
largely preventive," Gunn explained. "Bearings would be
changed after a specified number of hours of operation because
that was the routine. Even traditional condition monitoring wasn’t
capable of handling a problem until it was well developed. With
RECON, it’s different. RECON is a predictive, more proactive,
maintenance program that allows us to detect mechanical anomalies
and potential performance problems well ahead of time, assuring
optimal run time."

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