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repairs, to a broader service innovation concept with
the ultimate goal to boost customer’s business
profitability. The firm has turned to a lifetime technological
and innovative business partner by enhancing its value
proposition. Nowadays our range of offerings include a
wide and diversified portfolio of innovative service
solutions, customized activities helping clients to
maximize the value of their assets and returns on the
initial investment. Moreover, pushing technology
boundaries to boost performances of operating assets
and increase customer’s production, coupled with the
commitment to develop advanced technical features,

ong-term reliability is a common A fl exible business model on service and Fig. 1 - Cooling Tower
challenge for all plant operators. In order maintenance is key to enable smooth - Condition monitoring
to achieve the goal, it is necessary an operation and avoiding costly shutdown and optimization
approach that takes in due account a
wide range of different factors and
L makes use of the most appropriate for both older and newer cooling equipment models
technology and skilled engineers as well as technicians. and a prompt local response, are consistent to a smart
A flexible business model on service and maintenance service strategy.
is key to enable smooth operation and avoiding costly Investing in new products development, specifically
shutdown. conceived for service purpose, is aimed at adding value
B&W SPIG approach is aimed at maintain, repair, through injection of new technology in the existing
optimize and monitoring cooling systems, saving the assets to enhance the overall production capacity. That
operators the costs associated with investments in new
cooling equipment (figure1). The company also
provides preventive maintenance for those older
systems that might otherwise need to be replaced. Innovation

B&W SPIG philosophy is about the importance of

continuous remote conditions monitoring on both
newly installed machines and aged ones, to reduce

degradation to a minimum and extend service life to

avoid impact on the operational performances. Production Enhancement & Energy Saving Reliability & Safety Maintainability & Operability

Service Evolution
Fig. 2 – B&W SPIG Innovation House
In the last decade, B&W SPIG evolution has moved

from traditional service provider, offering standard Fig. 2 – B&W SPIG Innovation House
Monitoring and Diagnostic

In order to minimize loss of revenue, it is essential to use online condition monitoring and
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By using predictive and preventive maintenance techniques, B&W SPIG can identify potential
failures before they occur and take action to address them, helping to reduce downtime and
optimize the yield for cooling systems worldwide.

Monitoring the installed fleet of cooling systems enables us to provide diagnostics-based
predictive performance maintenance; in short, we can see problems before they affect an
equipment’s performance and take preventative steps accordingly (figure 3). When monitoring a
cooling equipment, data collected from other systems are also considered. This provides unique
insight about how the equipment operates.

Monitoring and Diagnostic (M&D) is a system that allows continuous monitoring of Cooling
Systems operating parameters through the acquisition of data collected from up to over one
hundred sensors in each equipment. Information are analyzed and compared against the other
Plant’s Cooling Equipment and same type global fleet.
In case deviations from standard, suspicious trends or path, or “not normal” conditions are found,
alerts are generated in order to investigate and assess the situation, allowing detection of
potential issue at an early stage. At the same time customer also has access to same data as B&W
SPIG.

The B&W SPIG structured quality-orientated, lean six sigma problem-solving process is run from
one central performance diagnostics center in Italy, and from local centers all over the world. It is
equipped with a full range of precision data acquisition and analytical systems and collects data
from customer sites worldwide twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. With this capability,
we offer a series of monitoring, diagnostic, advisory and tuning services to maximize machine
performances, maintainability and safety, to help prevent unexpected failures.