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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