Pythia Industries

Sample Plant

Verification

Test
  • At a meal break with the presses stopped, stand at the compressors for twenty minutes.
  • Count the minutes a compressor is pumping air, which its panel shows as loaded or as a percent of full output.
  • The presses draw no air then, so whatever a compressor pumps is going out through leaks.
  • Then write down the pressure on the panel and the highest pressure set at any press.
CostAbout $14: twenty minutes of one maintenance person at $40 per hour. Nothing is bought.
DurationTwenty minutes, at a meal break
Confirmed if
  • A compressor is loaded for over about two of the twenty minutes, which puts leaks above 10 percent of its output.
  • Or the panel shows a pressure well above the highest set at any press.
  • Each result confirms one part of the problem by itself.
Ruled out ifEvery compressor stays under about two loaded minutes of the twenty minutes, and the panel's pressure is within a few psi of the highest set at any press. This problem is then small here.

Illustrative sample. The plant, the walk and the footage are synthetic.