The Results of Your Analysis After you have entered your trap information and set the overall assumptions at values that seem correct you can interpret the results. However, before this you should try varying the assumptions a bit to find out how much the results change. The most detailed results are available for steam traps. We will discuss that section first. The amount of savings you find depends on how many of your traps can be represented by test samples and what kinds of traps you have.
Few firms have installation dates for all their traps.
If you have them you can obtain the benefits of predictive maintenance more quickly with less investment. Otherwise you should begin to replace many of your traps without testing them further. Use the ROI results for each trap type to guide your trap replacements. However, if many traps are leaking, replacing only part of them will simply cause the other leaking traps to leak more. You do not get the full savings potential of this approach until most of the leaking traps have been replaced.