Chelmer Pneumatics & Compressors Limited Compressed Air system Audit

Audits

Plant Air Audit: What's in it for me?

A properly conducted audit of your compressed air system provides you with the only sure way to manage the often-mysterious workings of your air system.

Benefits of a Compressed Air System AUDIT

Reduced operating costs
Improved manufacturing productivity
Reduced capital spending

The problems associated with operating a modern compressed air system are fairly complex and often camouflaged to the untrained eye. At the same time, many companies have cut back the internal resources dedicated to defining and solving those problems. That's where a professional Air Audit can help by addressing the total process of producing compressed air... not just the compressors. It's about taking compressed air, looking at it as your fourth utility, and making compressed air as dependable as your electric, water and gas services.

Air Audits help plant operators optimise their systems and often result in turning off compressors! This may sound crazy, but it's true. In the past you asked compressor manufacturers, like Ingersoll-Rand, to build the best engineered, most reliable, energy-efficient air compressors in the industry. But in today's global business climate, you need more than great equipment to survive and thrive. To drive operational excellence we must go beyond the components of an air system and find solutions to the operating issues every air consumer faces.

Your air system problems require total solutions. A professionally conducted Air Audit will help you define system problems, whether they are in demand, distribution or supply, allowing you to develop cost-efficient solutions that meet your return on investment goals.

Air is Free... but Compressed Air isn't!

Audits - Benefits of an Audit

Trend System Performance (IntelliSurvey)
You can't manage what you don't measure. Knowing what your system is doing is the first step in reducing costs and improving productivity.

The audit will give you a clear picture of how your system runs over time.

Reduce Operating Costs
With all audits, the goal is to reduce operating costs by optimising your system.

Eliminate costly air leaks and artificial demand.
Operating costs can be reduced by up to 50%.
Reductions in energy, maintenance, water and rentals will feed your bottom line
Local utilities might underwrite upgrade costs.

Improve Productivity
A thorough audit of your air system can dramatically improve the productivity of your entire operation.

Stabilise air pressure under all conditions at all points-of-use. Adding compressors isn't the only wayto increase pressure at a point-of-use.
Eliminate moisture, oil or contamination problems whether the root cause is the equipment or the application.
Solve production and process problems. Compressed air might be "invisible", but that doesn't mean it can't be the cause of process problems when improperly applied.

Minimise or Eliminate Future Capital Costs
Knowing the facts eliminates costly "guesswork" specifying and purchases.

If your system is on the brink of an expansion, an audit can help you squeeze more out of your existing system delaying the need to buy another compressor. If expansion requires additional compressors, then the audit can help you "right-size" the components rather than oversize the equipment "just in case." This saves money all around: on equipment, on installation and on operation.
Turning off an under-utilised compressor or reducing the demand for compressed air can create a back up machine out of your existing compressors. No need for costly rentals when maintenance shutdowns are needed.

The Audit Solution Process

If an audit is deemed to be the next logical step, ask Chelmer Pneumatics whose sales engineers are trained in this discipline. At the start of an audit, an initial meeting with all parties concerned ensures that all needs will be met and priorities and goals achieved.

After this initial meeting, our audit team will collect information using state of the art data acquisition equipment to develop an accurate picture of how your system truly operates. As data is developed the auditor will interview individuals who can provide further information on business practices. At the end of the audit period our team will discuss the findings of the audit and present proposals and quotations if required.

Audits - We are here to help you!

Audits make good sense and when plant managers decide to closely examine their compressed air requirements and energy costs, they need to know they can rely on a competent and reliable report. Chelmer will provide an honest unbiased review of the customer's systems and equipment enabling them to make sensible and informed decisions regarding the plant's current and future requirements.