Industry equipment management to a new stage of intelligent predictive maintenance
On june 11-12, the chinese news news service (journalist lee jun) held a conference and exhibition in xi'an in 2026 (seventh session) on the intelligent transport and maintenance of petrochemical equipment, which focused on the theme “accelerating the construction of a modern system of intelligent transportation in the petrochemical industry — ai — driving predictive maintenance to achieve a new leap”, and focused on topics such as the management of equipment throughout its life cycle, ai intelligence maintenance, security throughout the process, digital twinning applications, early warning of intelligence monitoring, protection against corrosion and prognosis, and predictive inspection and maintenance techniques, and exchanged views on the direction of industry and forward technologies to promote the upgrading of the management of petrochemical equipment in the country。
At the opening ceremony, statements were made by wah zhen, director-general of the chinese society of chemical industry, and by zhang zhuol, deputy director of the chemical industry department, zhao zhenhui, secretary-general of the party, representative of the former branch of china chemical marketing co. Ltd., china。
Wigand stated that the current “two-carbon” goal was advancing further and that the oil and chemical industries were facing three-fold opportunities and challenges for high-end upgrading, greening transformation and intellectual change. As the “bones” and “bloods” of the petrochemical industry, the equipment is the core vehicle for operation and the key line of defence for safe production. Petrochemical equipment is chronically exposed to extreme conditions of high temperature, high pressure, corrosive, flammable and explosive, with more than 60 per cent of production accidents directly related to equipment failure, an average annual loss of billions of yuan for unplanned shutdowns, and the level of equipment management directly determines the “stable and robust” operational capacity and core competitiveness of the enterprise. This session of the general assembly focused on policy orientation, technological frontier, translation of results and practicalization, bringing together consensus through intensive exchanges, broad-ranging discussions and genuine cooperation to promote technological progress in the management and maintenance of equipment in the petrochemical industry and to contribute to high-quality industrial development。
“the facilities in the petrochemical industry are characterized by high temperature and high pressure, flammable and explosive media, complex products and high safety risks, and the level of equipment management directly determines the firm's safe production floor, production operating costs, and green low-carbon transformation effects.” zhao zhenhui said that the management of industrial equipment was undergoing post-rehabilitation, regular preventive overhauls and was moving towards a new phase of predictive maintenance and life-cycle precision management, driven by digital and intelligent waves. A complete system of planning selection, digital delivery, commissioning, online operation, intelligent protection, spare parts control, upgrading, decommissioning and end-of-life chain management and a new paradigm for equipment management should be developed, with a life-cycle management umbrella; second, predictive maintenance should be used as a technological breakthrough to reverse the traditional passive mode of repair and failure recovery; thirdly, it aims at the safety of intelligence throughout the process, promoting the control of equipment safety intelligence, and securing the essential security foundations of petrochemical enterprises。
According to zhang chul, the development of the intellectual development of the coal-chemical industry is still in an iterative period, the nationalization of high-end intelligence monitoring devices is inadequate, the accumulation of specialized failure diagnostic algorithms for coal-chemicals, and the high cost of intelligent adaptation of old devices remain bottlenecks to the transformation of the industry, and there is an urgent need to develop inter-industry chain-based research and collaborative efforts and joint breakdowns. He recommended accelerating the roll-out of forecasting maintenance, equipment integrity management systems, the use of digitally pre-empting risk management and the reduction of safety incidents arising from equipment failure from sources. (c) deepening the synergy between research and development in production and joint efforts to accelerate the national production of critical transport technologies around “calculation” techniques such as special intelligence monitoring of the special conditions of coal-chemicals, erosion online control, installation of digital twinning, and intelligent robotics. At the same time, industrial chain ecology is being built to share intelligence in the new ecology。
Statements were also made by the deputy general manager of sion drum dynamics inc., mau fookgen, and the chairman of the board of directors of zhejiang peng fei insulation installations ltd., gu danqing。
The congress was hosted by the chinese society of chemical industry and co-sponsored by sian drum power inc. And zhejiang peng flying insulation installation ltd. Nearly 50 experts and business-related directors, such as the senior expert on petrochemicals of china, chen xue, deputy director of equipment, china oil refinery and new materials branch, and zhao yan, standing deputy director of the professional committee for the safety and transportation of chemical equipment, china petroleum and petrochemical engineering research council, and professor reia, principal vice-president, faculty of mechanical engineering, xian university of transport, shared their experiences with the latest technologies, practical cases and results, such as the management of the lubricants of petrochemical transformer equipment, equipment for smart transportation, and digital lead equipment for utility efficiency, respectively。
Liu yuan ho, deputy general manager, systems services branch, xian drum drum, inc., presented a cumulative supply of more than 15,000 high-efficiency energy-saving products, including axle current compressors, energy recovery penetrating devices, centrifuge compressors, gas turbines, etc., as the world's largest research and development and manufacturer of axle current compressors. At the same time, the company is committed to addressing the needs of user installations and crews for smooth, long, full and optimal operation, providing installation debugging, inspection and maintenance, green re-manufacturing, nationalization services, shared spare parts stock, baby-sitting industrial transport, as well as a package of system service solutions for intelligent services such as remote surveillance (imo), advanced control, unmanned, and aircraft efficiency improvement programmes, with significant economic benefits from the application of the domestic petrochemical industry。
In addition to the general assembly report and the sub-forums, exhibitions were held during the same period, and over 80 enterprises focused on new products, new technologies and results, such as smart sensors, online monitoring systems, digital twinning platforms, smart survey robots, automated overhaul tools and special anti-corruption equipment。
(photos provided by the organizers)
