Eastman Chemical’s Rounds, Recs, Reliability Program is a Phoenix Rising

Eastman Chemical, a U.S.-based specialty materials company, is a longtime customer of GE Vernova’s Asset Performance Management software that is continually evolving how it uses the technology for asset monitoring and reliability.

Danny Henry, reliability manager, shares how the company reinvigorated its equipment monitoring program to become a thriving and actively growing risk-based operational monitoring (RBOM) program. The company addressed declining performance at a Texas site, including issues with long routes, archaic devices, poor transparency, and inefficient recommendation processing.

By listening to operators’ needs and challenges, Eastman Chemical focused on:

The focus on quality recommendations led to proactive maintenance wins. The impact of this reinvention of the program was 1200-1400 recommendations per quarter with ~90% quality ratings. In one case, a quality recommendation prevented an emergency shutdown that could have cost $1 million and caused environmental and safety hazards. According to Henry, “It proves why equipment monitoring and rounds is so important.”