Cut the Cost and Raise the Reliability of Your Instrumentation
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most companies in the chemical process industries (CPI) are striving to reduce manufacturing costs and increase production from existing assets. This article discusses how better approaches for plant instrumentation can help you to achieve and sustain these goals. Results at several companies prove that the following savings can be realized: • instrument maintenance costs reduced by greater than 50%; • production losses due to instrumentation cut by over 45%/y; • instrument engineering time decreased by more than 75%; • instrument prices pared by 20–35%; and • instrument construction cost and time lowered by at least 30%.
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