Total selects GE’s predictive analytics software for remote monitoring

French oil and gas company Total has selected GE Intelligent Platforms’ Proficy SmartSignal software for predictive analytics and remote monitoring and analysis.

The SmartSignal predictive analytics software has the capacity to detect impending equipment problems early and helps avoid unexpected shutdowns and catastrophic failures.

GE will provide the French company with set-up and installation, project implementation and monitoring services and support.

The software can automatically and continuously identify reasons for and the priority of impending failures.

Total Group rotating machinery head Bernard Quoix said that the solution is aimed at monitoring the equipment from headquarters or a remote base anywhere in the world in order to produce suitable alerts and alarms in the presence of abnormal running conditions.

"This will allow our maintenance and engineering teams to analyse and launch appropriate maintenance actions," Quoix added.

Proficy SmartSignal leverages existing instrumentation, tools and IT infrastructure. It works on any equipment from any original equipment manufacturer (OEM).

The software can also detect the broadest range of equipment problems across the widest variety of assets, load ranges and failure modes.

GE Intelligent Platforms industrial data management software general manager Brian Courtney said: "Advances in the industrial internet like sensors, hardware, software and analytics have enabled companies to prolong the lifespan of their assets, while optimising their efficiency."

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Image: Total headquarters in la Défense near Paris, France. Photo: courtesy of Tangopaso.