Improve process control with smart valve sensors
Continuous valve position feedback and predictive information alerting to early signs of industrial valve failure.
Ensure product or ancillary utilities are moving as intended without blockage or leakage.
Complement process feedback of pressure, temperature and flow with valve position to have complete operational transparency to factors that affect product quality.
Smart valve sensor with solenoid outputs reduces the complexity of wiring networks and the total costs of installation.Guarantee your product quality
In almost every production facility where fluid is flowing, valves are used to start, stop, change direction of, or control the amount of liquid or gas flow. In many of these plants, there is no feedback to tell operators and maintenance personnel the health of the valve or whether it is open or closed. Without this basic information, how can you guarantee the quality of your product? More knowledge about the status of your valves leads to increased efficiency and decreased downtime.
- Eliminate unplanned stops in your process linked to failures of seals on quarter-turn valves.
- Improve process quality by identifying early failures of critical seals on valves.
- Reduce environmental risk of media leakage from seal failure on valves.
- Free up maintenance team to perform value-added work vs. time-based maintenance checks.
- Reduce inventory of replacement parts and quarter-turn valves.
The MVQ smart valve sensor continuously monitors the actual position of a quarter-turn valve in increments of 0.1 degrees. It is now possible to have a reliable indication of valve open / valve closed. The sensor also has predictive maintenance functions that can indicate valve open / close cycle time and deterioration of the valve seal.
Reduce the cost of valve maintenance
Valves wear over time and maintenance is inevitable to keep production running efficiently. Consider a manufacturing plant with 100 valves operating every day.
Cost of inspection – if all 100 valves are inspected 4 times per year and it takes 20 minutes for each valve and your labor rate is $100/hour…
it costs $13,200 per year just to make sure valves operate correctly.
Cost of valve repair – if a valve requires maintenance and it takes 3 hours for each valve and your labor rate is $100/hour…
It costs $300 per valve to repair. The cost more than doubles if the valves are difficult to reach, since a fork lift and an extra person are likely required. And if the valve must be replaced, add approximately $1000 to the repair cost.
The MVQ smart valve sensor continuously monitors the status of valve seal wear, so maintenance can be planned as needed, rather than a time-based approach when maintenance may not actually be necessary.