My Measurement Assistant - a revolutionary way to do maintenance

Kai Jan: “The great thing is that you don’t have to download a new app. My Measurement Assistant is a web-based application. It will add real value and make your life a lot easier. Let me explain further: In times of shrinking service forces, complexity of the installed base, un-serviced devices and the knowledge needed to maintain them, having an assistant at your fingertips can take care of all that and more. How about step-by-step guidance through short visually appealing video tutorials, being able to translate error codes grouped by the NAMUR 107 standard automatically to keep your process running, or checking for spare parts? My Measurement Assistant gives you faster access to information, is easy to navigate and available 24/7 on your mobile and desktop device.”

Guru: “The ease and accuracy with which we can model what were once considered complex physics problems means we can fundamentally challenge traditional approaches to sensing. What if, instead of drilling a hole in our piping to sense our process, we turned the piping into our sensor? Our award-winning non-invasive temperature sensor is a clear demonstration of how digitalization can rethink one of the most fundamental and important measurements in the process industry. With a model-based approach, we accurately measure the surface temperature of the pipe and replace the hardware of the thermowell with a physics-based model that predicts the process temperature. This technology is inherently safer, significantly more cost-effective and dramatically simplifies the engineering involved in measuring temperature in a process facility. However, the key enabler is the fact that the accuracy and repeatability match the performance of traditional invasive measurements. In essence, we digitalized the thermowell!”

Guru: “This tool really embodies the vision of My Measurement Assistant and brings its core idea to life. The next time our customers have a need to measure temperature in their processes, they can easily check whether a non-invasive temperature sensor could be a better solution over traditional temperature measurements. The tool gives an accurate estimation, so that customers can decide for themselves. If the predicted accuracy is acceptable, the non-invasive method could reduce the time to getting a measurement from weeks to days or even hours.

Built on fundamental physics principles and validated in repeated applications, customers simply have to insert standard process design parameters to provide a good indication of the measurement performance they can expect. In addition, the effects of parameters such as the type of medium, wall thickness, material and the thickness of the insulation on the measurement results can easily be examined. In essence, the tool empowers process engineers to make the right decision. In the end, using a non-invasive temperature sensing method might be the better choice for them.”