Asahi Kasei Engineering Launches 'RECOMOTI™', a Daily Inspection Support App for Plants
Asahi Kasei Engineering Corporation has launched 'RECOMOTI™', a daily inspection support application designed to prevent sudden equipment failures in plants. Leveraging over 50 years of maintenance expertise from the Asahi Kasei Group, the cloud-based app offers inspection standardization, real-time sharing, and time-series analysis to ensure stable operations and optimize maintenance costs.
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Asahi Kasei Engineering Corporation (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Takeshi Kuwabara; hereinafter 'the Company') announced the launch this month of 'RECOMOTI™', a daily inspection support application designed to prevent sudden failures of plant equipment, as part of its maintenance and operational support throughout the plant lifecycle.
RECOMOTI™ is a cloud-based application aimed at advancing equipment maintenance. It was developed based on the daily inspection (Condition Monitoring: CoMo) expertise accumulated over 50 years at Asahi Kasei Group plants. By standardizing and enhancing daily inspections by field personnel, the app enables early detection of changes in equipment condition and supports planned and efficient maintenance activities.
Background
In recent years, domestic and overseas plants have faced challenges with aging equipment alongside a shortage of skilled maintenance personnel and generational turnover. Sudden equipment failures carry a high risk of leading to production stoppages and serious accidents, while excessive preventive maintenance leads to increased costs.
Under these circumstances, the key to stable operations and optimization of maintenance costs lies in how to sustain and establish 'meaningful daily inspections' by field workers who interact with the equipment on a daily basis.
Features of RECOMOTI™
RECOMOTI™ systematizes daily inspection tasks conventionally performed using paper or spreadsheet software, realizing improved inspection quality and operational efficiency through the following features:
1) Standard inclusion of inspection master data for general-purpose equipment
The app comes pre-installed with an inspection master that systematizes inspection areas and methods for general-purpose rotating machinery, such as sealless pumps, reciprocating pumps, blowers, conveyors, compressors, and centrifugal pumps. By navigating users on 'what to check and how', it standardizes inspection judgments that tend to rely on individual skills, enabling effective daily inspections from the initial implementation phase.
2) Real-time sharing of inspection results and support from expert staff
Inspection results, along with photos and videos, are immediately shared to the cloud, realizing rapid information sharing among manufacturing, maintenance, and management departments. In addition, users can consult with Company staff who possess plant field maintenance expertise. They support the consideration of appropriate responses even when field personnel are unsure of how to judge a situation.
3) Visualization of equipment condition through time-series analysis
Accumulated inspection data is automatically visualized as time-series graphs, allowing changes in equipment condition to be understood as a 'line' rather than 'points'. By capturing minute daily changes, it supports the early detection of anomaly signs and the optimization of repair timing.
Expected Benefits of Implementation
The utilization of RECOMOTI™ is expected to yield the following effects:
- Contribution to stable operations by preventing sudden equipment failures
- Optimization of maintenance costs by curbing excessive maintenance
- Reduction of on-site workload through streamlined inspection and reporting tasks
- Realization of inspection tasks that do not depend on skilled maintenance personnel, and improvement of the entire organization's technical capabilities by making daily inspection know-how explicit knowledge
Future Outlook
The Company will support the advancement of daily inspections through RECOMOTI™ and strive to realize 'user-centric operations' and 'profitable maintenance'. Through these efforts, the Company will promote the advancement of equipment maintenance and contribute to enhancing customers' business value throughout the entire plant lifecycle.
RECOMOTI™ is a cloud-based application aimed at advancing equipment maintenance. It was developed based on the daily inspection (Condition Monitoring: CoMo) expertise accumulated over 50 years at Asahi Kasei Group plants. By standardizing and enhancing daily inspections by field personnel, the app enables early detection of changes in equipment condition and supports planned and efficient maintenance activities.
Background
In recent years, domestic and overseas plants have faced challenges with aging equipment alongside a shortage of skilled maintenance personnel and generational turnover. Sudden equipment failures carry a high risk of leading to production stoppages and serious accidents, while excessive preventive maintenance leads to increased costs.
Under these circumstances, the key to stable operations and optimization of maintenance costs lies in how to sustain and establish 'meaningful daily inspections' by field workers who interact with the equipment on a daily basis.
Features of RECOMOTI™
RECOMOTI™ systematizes daily inspection tasks conventionally performed using paper or spreadsheet software, realizing improved inspection quality and operational efficiency through the following features:
1) Standard inclusion of inspection master data for general-purpose equipment
The app comes pre-installed with an inspection master that systematizes inspection areas and methods for general-purpose rotating machinery, such as sealless pumps, reciprocating pumps, blowers, conveyors, compressors, and centrifugal pumps. By navigating users on 'what to check and how', it standardizes inspection judgments that tend to rely on individual skills, enabling effective daily inspections from the initial implementation phase.
2) Real-time sharing of inspection results and support from expert staff
Inspection results, along with photos and videos, are immediately shared to the cloud, realizing rapid information sharing among manufacturing, maintenance, and management departments. In addition, users can consult with Company staff who possess plant field maintenance expertise. They support the consideration of appropriate responses even when field personnel are unsure of how to judge a situation.
3) Visualization of equipment condition through time-series analysis
Accumulated inspection data is automatically visualized as time-series graphs, allowing changes in equipment condition to be understood as a 'line' rather than 'points'. By capturing minute daily changes, it supports the early detection of anomaly signs and the optimization of repair timing.
Expected Benefits of Implementation
The utilization of RECOMOTI™ is expected to yield the following effects:
- Contribution to stable operations by preventing sudden equipment failures
- Optimization of maintenance costs by curbing excessive maintenance
- Reduction of on-site workload through streamlined inspection and reporting tasks
- Realization of inspection tasks that do not depend on skilled maintenance personnel, and improvement of the entire organization's technical capabilities by making daily inspection know-how explicit knowledge
Future Outlook
The Company will support the advancement of daily inspections through RECOMOTI™ and strive to realize 'user-centric operations' and 'profitable maintenance'. Through these efforts, the Company will promote the advancement of equipment maintenance and contribute to enhancing customers' business value throughout the entire plant lifecycle.
FAQ
What is RECOMOTI™?
It is a cloud-based daily inspection app developed by Asahi Kasei Engineering to support plant equipment maintenance.
What are the benefits of using it?
It standardizes inspections, prevents sudden equipment failures, and optimizes maintenance costs.
Is it difficult to set up?
It comes with standard inspection templates for general equipment like pumps and blowers, enabling quick and effective deployment.