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service analytics, including computerised
maintenance management system data,
and aids decision making through insights
into maintenance compliance, failure and
damage statistics, life cycle costs and
replacement schedules. Perform 360 can
also find assets which are mapped using
the asset templates, and immediately view
the prebuilt parameters and KPIs in various
dashboards. The module leverages the
Knowledge Services Hub of the Genix Suite
to calculate these KPIs and deliver insights to
the user’s browser.
Assess 360 provides the tools which
traditional APM systems miss: the ability
to mine the integrated IT/OT dataset and Figure 5: Perform 360: Insights across performance, health, maintenance schedules and asset life cycle
perform financial data analysis toward cost. Shown are charts for failure metrics
optimised asset OPEX and CAPEX planning. It
helps ensure that short- and long-term asset Datalyser’s emission reports are needed by ABB customers to prove environmental compliance,
investments deliver the greatest financial as compliance requires a record of regular equipment inspections and calibration, which
outcomes to business income statements Datalyser tracks cost-effectively in a remote-enabled way.
and balance sheets. It provides a 360°
view of assets in terms of performance in Genix – a software suite for APM and more
order to optimise capital and operational The Genix APM Suite delivers significant improvements in operations by estimating the remaining
expenditures. This overview helps the useful life of assets and providing a maintenance plan which can reduce asset downtime by up
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operations manager, maintenance specialist to 50% and increase asset life by up to 40%. Customers in asset-intensive industries – energy,
or asset owner to understand remaining manufacturing, marine, process or utility – can benefit significantly from the ABB Ability Genix
asset life and maintenance needs (Figure 6). APM Suite. Genix APM is modular and can be scaled up as the number of assets or production
Asset life assessment is a very important units rise. The Genix APM Suite resolves many of the asset-specific, function-limited aspects
focus for organisations with old or ageing of previous-generation asset management technology to maximise uptime and ensure that
assets. Such an assessment enables the producers perform optimally in today’s rapidly changing world.
characterisation and understanding of
possible failure scenarios. With Assess 360, References
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mitigation. Further, integrity parameters 2. V. Dilda, et al.: “Manufacturing: Analytics unleashes productivity and profitability”, https://www.
can be tracked and the qualitative risk mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/manufacturing-analytics-unleashes-
of certain failure scenarios, according to productivity-and-profitability
different risk categories, can be analysed to
forecast an optimum blend of maintenance Acknowledgement
or replacement. This capability makes This article was first published in ABB Review, issue 02, 2022.
sophisticated maintenance approaches such
as reliability-centred maintenance possible. Contact Busisiwe Molefe, ABB, Phone 010 202-5523, busisiwe.molefe@za.abb.com, www.abb.com
The ABB Ability Genix Industrial
Analytics and AI Suite is a platform upon
which many digitalisation applications
may be built to meet various customer
needs. For example, an emerging Genix
Sustainability Suite addresses the increasing
environmental compliance pressures
imposed by governments and includes
an industrial data analytics offering for
ABB’s emissions monitoring systems.
This offering is known as the ABB Ability
Genix Datalyser. Emissions monitoring is
a significant pressure point for businesses
and is becoming even more so with the
world’s focus on sustainable production. The Figure 6: Assess 360: Understand remaining asset life and maintenance needs

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