Case Study: Lime Instruments improves oil well pump monitoring and analysis with National Instruments LabVIEW and NI RIO technology

Oil Well Fracture Pump Monitoring and Analysis Using LabVIEW and NI RIO Technology

Lime Instruments, LLC needed to build a rugged, advanced monitoring system that could be mounted directly onto oil well fracturing pumps. Their challenge was to create a system capable of surviving harsh environments while performing complex analysis on sensor data to detect issues like momentary pressure spikes and vibrations.

The vendor, National Instruments, provided a solution using NI CompactRIO and NI Single-Board RIO hardware along with LabVIEW software. This technology allowed Lime Instruments to develop the system significantly faster than with traditional programming, reducing a typical two-year development cycle to just a couple of months. This accelerated time to market allowed them to capitalize on their competitors' lag time. The resulting system effectively monitors pump parameters and transmits data to a main console, helping to reduce pump failures and maintenance costs.

Lime Instruments, LLC

Robert Stewart

Chief Executive Officer