Real time oil condition monitoring
Shell Remote Sense can give you access to the live state of your oil, round the clock
Shell Remote Sense is a smart lubricant condition monitoring service that combines Shell's lubricant expertise with advanced analytics.
Using machine learning, it produces actionable insights and recommendations that provide tangible value – improving equipment health, lowering maintenance costs, and increasing operational efficiency.
Shell has been using advanced analytics in our own operations for a number of years. Shell Remote Sense is the culmination of our own learnings, building on several years of lubricant analysis to create an industry-wide system that we can now share with our customers.
of industry staff believe they could reduce maintenance costs¹
of machine defects can be attributed to poor oil condition monitoring²
admit to incidents of incorrect lube oil management leading to unplanned downtime¹
Source: 1.Edelman Intelligence (2015, 2018) / 2.Frost & Sullivan (2018)
Shell Remote Sense Benefits
Title: Shell Remote Sense Sizzle: Real-Time Oil Condition Monitoring
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Blue smartphone animates on a light blue background with white squares and blue circular shapes around it. Two Remote Sense icons emerge from the phone screen. A gray bar text box appears with white text that says MONITOR OIL RIGHT AT YOUR FINGERTIPS.
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MONITOR OIL RIGHT AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
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The Shell Remote Sense dashboard fills the screen. At the top is the “Equipment Needs Attention” section and four meters below it reading in warning, good, critical and unavailable levels. Underneath is the “Oil Usage Overview” section that details the Drain Summary and Carbon Saving Summary.
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Remote Sense by Shell
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A gray bar text box appears with white text that says HELPS PREVENT DOWNTIME BETTER THAN PERIODIC MONITORING as shot dollies past close ups of Remote Sense dashboard sections.
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Real-time oil analysis helps prevent downtime better than periodic monitoring.
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Take action fast.
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While keeping track of your carbon and emissions savings!
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MADE SIMPLE. ANYTIME. ANYWHERE.
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Oil monitoring … made simple! Anytime…anywhere!
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Now that - makes sense.
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By delivering actionable insights and recommendations, we can help you to respond quicker to anomalies before failure occurs, reducing unplanned downtime.
In monitoring your oil condition, we can obtain a view of the health of your asset, which will help you to prioritise which assets need attention.
Once we have a view of the health of your equipment, we can provide recommendations to help you improve that health, meaning each equipment can run for longer before it needs replacing.
By understanding which assets need attention and when, you can improve your utilisation and boost your site’s productivity.
*Shell has been a market leader for over 13 years and draws on this experience as well as using market leading technology which is evaluated by Shell’s in-house technical and research teams.
The Remote Sense service has been deployed to engines running a variety of fuels – diesel, heavy fuel oil, sour gas, natural gas.
Natural gas pipeline operators turn to Remote Sense for online lubricant monitoring at manned and unmanned stations.
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