Valves are critical components on site – identifying, locating and inspecting them is a must on every plant.
With the help of wireless technology, valve applications can now be monitored for safety, reliability, maintenance, environmental compliance and increased efficiency without the additional cost and time barriers imposed by wires.
Wireless technology means less cost, reduced time for project implementation and fewer risks.
Wireless provides an accessible and intelligent solution to automate existing or new valves.
Making your company’s valves on-site visible will help eliminate “˜blind spots’ in the process, which means operators will have more accurate information available, allowing them to identify process deviations or possible issues sooner.
The ability to reduce valve alignment to just seconds, preventing human error that could result on environmental spills with associated clean-up costs, loss of production and minimising worker exposure to heights and chemicals that could jeopardise safety and production are all possible with wireless technologies.
Manual monitoring and actuation of valves can be a difficult and costly process, requiring operators to travel into hazardous areas, climbing up ladders, and visually checking valve state or position while on service.
Worker safety is a priority at all times, so the less time the operator spends in contact with the process the better.
In addition to safety, implementing wireless is less costly than standard wired installations.
There are great savings to be made by removing the actual cost of wires, as well as cabling infrastructure, junction boxes, engineering time and cost for connecting to the control system, labour time, cost for electrical installation and the reduction in time spent managing all these resources and schedules.
By removing all these barriers to a project while adding the benefits, the return on investment and budget approval for wireless solutions becomes a very easy task.
For more details about current devices and existing wireless solutions for valves visit Fisher Valves and Instruments at www.emersonprocess.com.
