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How to Prioritize Compressed Air System Leaks for Repair

Leak detection, Energy management, Troubleshooting, Maintenance and monitoring

There are many ways to prioritize assets when developing a proactive maintenance plan—the most common uses criticality analysis. That is, the assets with the greatest potential for impacting the bottom line are higher on the priority list, while those that have little-to-no impact are on the bottom of the list.

Since compressed air systems are integral to operation up time, they would likely be very high on the list. That means that there is a direct correlation between the compressed air system performance and the connected equipment performance. If the compressed air system is underperforming, the connected equipment will be too.

Leaks are the number one most common issue in under-performing compressed air systems (that were properly sized and installed). Monitoring the systems for leaks should be a high priority for any company that uses them in their operations. The Fluke ii905 Acoustic Camera with LeakQ™ lets you see the leaks, but now you have a different prioritization issue at hand—with so many leaks, where do you start?