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Industrial Infrastructure Damage & Downtime

Root Causes: How to Eliminate Them

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Corrosion and Erosion only make up 20%

Wear and tear is normal.

It’s normal for industrial assets to degrade. But only 20% of that degradation is predictable. The other 80% is accelerated, human inflicted and can be stopped.

Chart of asset health over time: the myth is a steady decline; the reality is a decline with sudden, unpredictable drops from high damage

Myth vs Reality

Degradation

Myth: Fixed assets slowly degrade over time in a linear function.

Reality: Fixed assets suffer intermittent, high damage. Degradation is unpredictable and not linear.

After decades of health scans and trillions of data points across industry, we know how to categorize, identify, and prevent damage.

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Root Causes

Preventable Damage Mechanisms - 80% of the problem

Improve safety. Save time. Avoid reactive maintenance. Allocate CapEx efficiently. Infrastructure lasts 25%-50% longer when combining new and existing data layers for a complete picture of your sites' health.

Corroded pipe with a hand-wheel valve and hanging chains
Rotations
Air pockets in the hood tracing to pump cavitation. Motor resonance causing major damage to piping systems 40% of the time.
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Maintenance
Bad welds. Patch job missed the problem area. These make up about 15% of the issues on site.
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Chemistry
Whether it’s a Boiler with bad water chemistry, or process Piping with Acidic wash mixtures, process data can prevent 15% of unwarranted damage growth.
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Configuration
From kinked goose necks to 90 degree turns inches away from pipe discharge nozzels, to agressive neck downs, configurations comprise 10% of failures.

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