Many industries, such as power plants, refineries, cement plants, steel companies, etc., feel the need to maintain their main production process equipment operating efficiently and constantly with the scope to increment system reliability and reduce risks of damages and related cost of maintenance and intervention.

The automation equipment, differently from others, has a reduced lifetime, therefore, they become obsolete after few years, their performance degrades and their hardware parts become aged. As a consequence, spare parts availability is often a problem incrementing the risks of system malfunctioning and over all costs of maintenance.

The industrial automated equipment revamping could be performed in two levels:

Total – in case the substitution and modernization process concern all the equipment levels: electrical, automation and mechanical.

Partial – in case the substitution and modernization process concern only selected levels of the equipment: electrical, mechanical and automation.

The type of intervention is based on the customer's need.

The RRS S.r.l. proposes the Revamping process for industrial equipment with different levels of intervention:

Process analysis and optimization;

Management and control process re-engineering;

Sensors, motors and HMI (Human Machine Interface) revamping;

Automation and control equipment revamping by means of new generation and more reliable and versatile PLC systems;

HMI systems revamping oriented toward system's visualization and control and based on the several Customers needs and Market demand.

The main advantages in carrying out a revamping of equipment are as follows:

Equipment modernization;

System reliability increase and process optimization;

Dramatic damages decrease;

Ordinary and/or extraordinary annual maintenance and interventions costs reduction on automatic equipment;

Operator to machine interface improvement allowing to better analyze the types of damages and providing the first suggested maintenance techniques to better manage the programmed inspections activities;

"Open" systems which can be easily integrated with other existing ones and remotized in order to achieve a centralized management.