DF-06Foundational
SCADA/Historian Connectivity & TSDB
Gets the live sensor data out of the control system safely and stores it at full resolution, which almost nothing else on this site does.
Data FoundationIoTIT
DR-12FoundationalWave 2IoTAI
Rig Equipment Health Monitoring
In one sentence
Watches the mud pumps, top drive and drawworks for the vibration and temperature patterns that precede a breakdown.
The problem
Rig equipment failure is a top-three cause of non-productive time and is almost entirely reactive: the pump fails, the rig stops, the spare is flown in.
The rig control system already logs the data that would have warned two weeks earlier, and it is discarded on a rolling window.
How it works
Vibration, current, temperature and pressure signals are pulled from the rig PLC over OPC-UA and from added wireless sensors where the PLC does not expose them. Envelope and spectral analysis on rotating assets is combined with duty-cycle-normalised trending; alerts map onto ISO 14224 failure modes.
The edge node stores raw high-frequency data locally for thirty days so that a post-failure investigation has the waveform, not just the alarm.
Data required
- OPC-UA access to the rig control network, read-only, through a data diode or unidirectional gateway
- Vibration sensors on mud pump power ends and top drive gearbox
- Motor current and temperature from the VFD house
- Maintenance history mapped to ISO 14224 equipment classes
What you get
- Asset health index per major rotating asset with trend
- Specific failure-mode alerts: fluid-end washout, bearing wear, gearbox tooth defect
- Spare-parts pre-positioning recommendation ahead of the next section
What it cannot do
Access to the rig control network is a commercial and security negotiation with the drilling contractor and is frequently the longest part of the project. Where read-only OPC-UA access is refused, the capability reduces to added wireless sensors only, which covers rotating equipment but not the electrical and control faults.
Every capability page states a real limitation. If a vendor cannot tell you where their product stops, you are not being told the truth about where it starts.
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