Masoneilan* Valve Aware* Service

GE Oil & Gas

Valve Aware is a service offered by General Electric and our local service partners to better help understand the health of all pneumatic control valves by utilizing complete maintenance records and monitoring control valve performance during normal process operations, plant integrity, efficiency and uptime can be improved—reducing operating expenses and helping to increase plant profitability.

With the tool you can:• Improveplantsafetybydiagnosingfluidleaksandcontrolvalve

seatingissues

• Improveplantuptimebydiagnosingandvalidatingthehealthofcontrolvalveswithoutdisturbingtheprocess

• Improveplantperformancewithkeyperformanceindicatorsthatshowvalveorsystemtuningissues

• Verifyproperinstallationandcalibration

• DiagnosecontrolvalvesequippedwithSVI*seriesproductsaswellasanycontrolvalvesequippedwithHART®orFoundation™fieldbuspositioners

• Enableflexibleimplementationsuchaspoint-to-pointorintegratedsolutionswithleadingassetmanagementsoftware

• Conductlong-termperformancetrendingwithautomateddatacollectionandanalysis

• Enhanceinformationmanagementwithabuilt-indatabase

• Bettermanageyourresourceswithquarterlyhealthreports

• AccessallvalvemaintenancecompletedbyMasoneilanAuthorizedRepairCenters(MARC)*

• Buildreportsforregulatorsdocumentingvalvemaintenance

Key Features• Read-onlyfielddevicedatacapabilityforinternetsafety

• HART®andFoundationfieldbussupportforanydigitalvalvepositioner(1)

• Modernuserfriendlyinterface

• Non-intrusivefornormalprocessoperation

• Configurablescheduleforvalvemonitoring

• GEexpertisealongwithGEGlobalResearchCenterwithallanalytics

• Patenteddataanalysiswithvalvetrendanalysis

• FacilitatedplanningofshutdownswithMARC

• Automaticsavingandloggingofresultsintoadatabase

• Stand-aloneimplementationorintegration

• Historicalviewofkeyperformanceindicators(KPI)

• Completehistoricalmaintenancerecords

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Control Valve Health Monitoring for Improved Plant Performance

Communication Protocol support• HART(revision5,6,7)

• Foundationfieldbus(H1,HSE)

External Hardware for Stand-alone Application Support• HARTModem(USB,Serial,Bluetooth)

• MTLMultiplexer

• P&FWirelessGateway

• FoundationfieldbusPCMCIAcardandUSBinterface

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Masoneilan,ValveAware,SVI,MARC,andMarkareregisteredtrademarksoftheGeneralElectricCompany.

©2015GeneralElectricCompany.Allrightsreserved.

Othercompanynamesandproductnamesusedinthisdocumentaretheregisteredtrademarksortrademarksoftheirrespectiveowners.

GEA31186A(03/2015)

Key Performance Indicators (KPI) with Pass/Fail Criteria (2) Valve Friction Response Time

Spring Initial Setpoint Offset

Sprint Final Setpoint Error

Setpoint Error Position Overshoot

Lag Oscillation Frequency

Tight Shutoff Stick Slip

Digital Valve Positioners Support• AnyFoundationfieldbuspositioner

• MostdigitalvalvepositionerswithHARTCommand#3

• GE’sMasoneilanSVIFFValvePositioner

• GE’sMasoneilanSVIIIValvePositioner(StandardandAdvancedDiagnostics)

• GE’sMasoneilanSVIIIAPValvePositioner(StandardandAdvancedDiagnostics)

• GE’sMasoneilanSVi1000ValvePositioner

• GE’sMasoneilanFVPValvePositioner(StandardandAdvancedDiagnostics)

• Fisher®DVC5000/DVC6000(DoesnotrequirePDtier)(3)

• Valtek®LogixSeries(3)

• SiemensSIPART(3)

• Support

Integration• GEMark*VIeControlSystem

• AMS™fromEmersonProcessManagement™(AMSOPCserverrequired)(3)

• PRM®fromYokogawa®Corporation(3)

• PKS®fromHoneywell®Corporation(3)

Supported SoftwareThesoftwarehasbeendesignedtosupportmultiplesourcesfordevices.

Supported Device Sources• DirectHART

• DirectFF(NIFoundationfieldbus)

• HoneywellPKSR400

• YokogawaPRM3.05,3.10

• EmersonAMS11.1,11.5

LanguagesValveAwareServiceshasbeendesignedtosupportmultiplelanguages.

Supported Data Languages• English(UnitedStates)

• French(France)

• Spanish(Spain)

• Portuguese(Brazil)

• Dutch(Netherlands)

• Chinese(PRC)

SpecificationsSupported Browser RequirementsValveAwareServicessupportsthefollowingbrowsers:• MicrosoftInternetExplorer8

• MicrosoftInternetExplorer9

• MozillaFireFox

• GoogleChrome

Servers 32 or 64 bit• IntelCore™2.7GHzprocessororabove

• 4GBmemoryorabove

• 500GBharddiskdrive

• EthernetNetworkInterfaceCard

Operating System• MicrosoftWindows®2008ServerR2StandardEdition32/64bit

• MicrosoftWindowsServer2003R2SP232/64bit

• MicrosoftWindows7

Software• MicrosoftIIS6.0(Windows2003Server)

• MicrosoftIIS7.0(Windows2008Server)

• JavaJRE1.7u25

• Tomcat™7.0.37ApplicationServer

• PostgreSQL9.2Database

• AdvosolOPCDA.NET3.00.105

• HighSoftHighChartsVersion3

Security• TransportLayerSecurity(TLS)Certificates

• IntegratedWindowsAuthentication