Approximately 63% of a technician’s time is spent in scheduled maintenance and investigating non-existing equipment faults. Furthermore, the ratio of process analyzers to the number of assigned technicians continues to increase. This drives the need for remote diagnostics, predictive maintenance and asset monitoring to make the most efficient use of limited resource time. ABB’s STAR DMS meets the challenge restoring critical resource time and lowering the total cost of ownership.
STAR DMS is a client-server platform designed to centralize and manage critical data from legacy and current process analyzer networks. Archival and retrieval, trending, reporting and statistical analysis are all essential data management tools provided by STAR DMS. The remote user interface (RUI) launch portal for legacy and current ABB analyzer assets and an OPC concentrator for third party analyzers provide complete remote access to networked analyzer assets all logically displayed in the Plant View mode.