Are you a maintenance, production, energy or environment officer? Then the efficiency of your steam, air or hot water system is surely one of your main concerns! Here are a few widely shared views in the industry...
Energy Manager
"A complete steam network audit seems to afford 10% savings on the boiler consumption bill. However, most external auditors only use the information we provide to them and don't help us to learn anything that we don't already know. It seems to be up to us to find the solutions because we know our own systems the best. Isn't there anyone who can make the measurements and provide us with practical solutions based on best practices in our sector?"
Environmental Manager
"Our utilities networks are the cause of a large portion of our CO2 emissions. The Kyoto quotas will become increasingly difficult to achieve in the future. It is imperative that we identify additional improvements in order not to exceed our future quotas. And, why not even try to do better to preserve the environment and sell the excess emission rights?"
Maintenance Manager
"In today's world, our daily work involves always accomplishing more with less. We can no longer accept breakdowns without calling certain design problems into question. But, how can we help management to understand that by increasing investments in maintenance, we can recoup our outlay by several fold in the other operational budgets?"
Production Manager
"Production efficiency is key to our competitiveness on a global market. We can no longer accept production shut-downs due to utility systems problems. I'm completely convinced that many of our current breakdowns are avoidable. Even better, we should be able to produce more with the current heat exchangers. But, how can we achieve this?"
Quality, Hygiene, Safety Manager
"All of these utility network failures can not be normal. Some of our employees voice complaints regularly and fear an accident. Moreover, leaks from these systems cause serious hygiene problems in certain facilities. I don't even want to think of the consequences that this could have on the quality of our products. What can we do to get rid of these potential worries once and for all?"
Armstrong Methodology 
