In a current market situation the main way to increase profitability of continuous production facilities is to reduce operating costs and losses caused by accidents and downtimes due to unexpected failures of processing equipment.

Operating costs can be minimized by timely and intentional real-time health monitoring of equipment, making maximal use of the equipment capacity and eliminating any off-schedule (i.e. emergency) shutdowns and replacements.

Analyzing reliability of contemporary production facilities, it can be concluded that more than three fourths of the equipment failures refers to machinery, which often causes operating troubles, accidents or emergency shutdowns of processing units and plants.

Per contra, output quality, processing depth and production level depend on basic processing units health, mostly influenced by operation methods.

The main source of problems is lack of the equipment health objective evaluation within operating process.

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