Portable, robust PMI (positive material identification) analyzers mark an important change in the way for example oil and gas upstream, midstream, and downstream operators ensure their sites are working in a safe, compliant, and efficient manner. Same applies to power and chemical plants as well.
Portable alloy analyzers make it simpler to take a proactive approach to process safety, pipeline integrity management, and to detect safety and process risks early. This is important because many operators still tend to default to a reactive approach, only addressing issues with equipment and systems after they’ve begun to show signs of degradation or damage.
A reactive strategy often leads to higher maintenance costs, more unscheduled downtime, and increased risk, while making it harder to hit strategic and commercial production goals. Retroactive PMI (retro-PMI) or safety inspection, however, doesn’t need to be a costly or time-consuming process. When matched with data management solutions like cloud storage, it can help minimize unscheduled downtime, operational disruption, unforeseen costs, and catastrophic failures.
PMI analyzers provide a long-term solution to unforeseen problems by making it simple to
get an overview of the health of a site’s assets. The increasing use of data management solutions
also makes it less costly to store, analyze and share inspection data across an organization in real-time. This creates the possibility that managers and safety officials can analyze inspection results as they come in from the field and flag up potential problems fast.
Here’s how PMI analyzers can help to make your life easier:
Fundamentally, we’ve made it so it’s a simple job to take the analyzer and make a series of measurements – within minutes you have an accurate and precise set of data that gives you crucial information on the health of your plant.
Our X-MET8000 handheld XRF and PMI-MASTER Smart spark OES analyzers are ideal for widespread PMI testing across petrochemical plants and refineries as part of a PMI/NDT program.
Here’s why to choose our instruments as your preferred tools:
Our range of PMI analyzers delivers the right results, time after time, even in the most demanding of environments.
To learn more about how Hitachi portable PMI analyzers can support you, get in touch to for a quote or arrange a demo.
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