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News Release from: Reliability Center
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial Team on 16 September 2003

Problem solving software wins award

Reliability Center has won the Silver Award in Plant Services magazine's Problem Solvers competition.

Reliability Center has won the Silver Award in Plant Services magazine's Problem Solvers competition Reliability Center won the award for the use of Proact software to resolve a pump problem for Lyondell-Citgo Refining that resulted in a 17,900% return on investment

The root cause analysis project involved repeated vacuum pump failures that resulted in significant downtime at the refinery.

The Reliability Center consultants using Proact root cause analysis software were able to identify numerous contributing factors and recommended a series of corrective actions.

The result of the process was a resolution of the problem at a total cost of $40,000 and a savings of $7.1 million.

The Reliability Center silver award for the use of Proact software is highlighted in the August 2003 issue of Plant Services magazine.

It is the third significant award that Proact software has won sponsored by major maintenance and reliability focused publications.

Proact software is also a two-time gold award winner in Plant Engineering magazine's annual competition for the best general and maintenance software product.

Both the original and 2.0 versions of Proact software won gold awards in 1998 and 2000, respectively.

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