Asset Master - the comprehensive asset optimization tool!
Asset Master is a software application from ABB that runs on a standalone desktop or laptop PC. Intended for engineering and maintenance personnel, Asset Master supports ABB and 3rd party devices communicating via HART, PROFIBUS, and FOUNDATION FIELDBUS. As a comprehensive asset optimization tool, it provides online and offline device configuration, parameter setting functions, online monitoring and tuning, diagnostic alerts, asset monitoring, calibration management, and integral work order processing. Asset Master seamlessly integrates intelligent field devices using capabilities from 800xA Systems technology and makes the resident information available in the right manner to the right people and in the right context. Asset Master’s device management solutions result in improved engineering efficiency, reduced time for repair, and optimized plant availability and performance, ultimately leading to continuous productivity improvements. It lowers lifecycle costs through significant savings in the design, implementation, operation, and maintenance of field equipment. The following key features are supported by Asset Master:
· Configure and monitor ABB and third party devices for HART, PROFIBUS, and FOUNDATION Fieldbus
· Connect and interface to field mounted online devices as well as those at the maintenance bench
· Identify asset conditions as alarms and notify key personnel via e-mail or cell phone
· Create and track work orders in third party Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)
· Create and schedule calibration procedures, and track and analyze results