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Experts Provide IIoT InsightsImplementing and benefitting from IIoT technology can be a challenge. We turned to industry leaders for advice.
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Avoid Common Pump Spec MistakesWhen it comes to keeping food and beverage pumps running efficiently, a pump expert identifies errors you should avoid.
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Each month we talk with maintenance and technology professionals about their views and pressing problems on the factory floor.
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Demonstrate Reliability’s Value to ManagementWhen it comes to plant operations, personnel regularly contend with scores of issues. Through this column, Klaus M. Blache attempts to help them address those concerns by answering common questions. This month’s installment focuses on economic issues associated with reliability programs.
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Experts Provide IIoT Insights
Implementing and benefitting from IIoT technology can be a challenge. We turned to industry leaders for advice.
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Proverbial Points: Production StandardsWho isn’t familiar with the proverb “A penny saved is a penny earned?” It seeks to convey the idea that what’s not spent today can be saved and eventually increase in value in the future. How does this relate to an efficient plant? Improvements in equipment or process efficiency are often seen as “saving pennies” […]
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Avoid Common Pump Spec Mistakes
When it comes to keeping food and beverage pumps running efficiently, a pump expert identifies errors you should avoid.
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Pump ‘Cavitation’ Might Not BeThe word “cavitation” should be quite familiar to those who work around pumps. As Stan Riddle of VibrAlign Inc. (vibralign.com, Richmond, VA) points out, it’s often used as a catch-all term for any flow-related pump vibration. It’s also frequently reported by vibration analysts when: • pump noise level is high • pump vibration is erratic, with […]
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Demonstrate Reliability’s Value to Management
When it comes to plant operations, personnel regularly contend with scores of issues. Through this column, Klaus M. Blache attempts to help them address those concerns by answering common questions. This month’s installment focuses on economic issues associated with reliability programs.
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Profitable Reliability Control On Your HorizonReal-time reliability control will soon make it possible to drive profitability at the operator and equipment asset level.
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Webinar | How to Move Towards Analyzed Plant DataIn the August print issue of Maintenance Technology, I touched on the “holy grail” of industrial manufacturing communications: OPC UA. This industrial communications standard has been solving sturdy obstacles in sharing operational and predictive maintenance information for years, and is now pushing data to enterprise cloud analytics, such as Microsoft Azure Platform or integrating into […]
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Rockwell Automation Threat Detection Services Ups Industrial SecurityRecently introduced threat detection services from Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee) are designed to help plants monitor, detect, and respond to increasingly complex security threats. Created specifically for industrial networks, the offering maps normal network behavior, and uses the manufacturer’s monitoring services to detect and alert personnel of irregularities and potential threats in real time. According to Rockwell Automation, integrating industrial-security software from providers that understand operational functions within industrial protocols […]
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‘Map’ Your Way to Successful LubricationLubrication mapping is essential in best-practice lubrication-management programs.
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Crack the Code on Lube Faults, FailuresDetecting and trending these occurrences can help boost asset reliability. One of the most powerful yet misunderstood and underused tools in many asset-management-software programs seems to be the fault- or failure-diagnosis section. That’s surprising, given the fact this feature is specifically designed to help users identify and classify asset or system faults or failures. Fault […]
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New Exair Website Helps Improve Efficiency, SafetyEXAIR.com is the new digital home of the Exair Corp. Intelligent Compressed Air products for industry. The new design offers a product-selection process that provides descriptions immediately from the homepage. An improved account management and ordering process streamlines access to historical orders, allows one click repeat orders, and eases editing of your information. This website […]
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Emerson’s Plantweb Apps Simplify Asset Health MonitoringWith the demand to implement the Internet of Things, the challenge is knowing where to start. Plants generate more data than ever before without meaningful analytics to guide expert decisions and actions. Plant web provides customers with a scalable, easy path into Industrial IoT (IIoT) benefits that will transform data into information that plant personnel can […]
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Schneider Electric Rolls Out 3 Software Solutions for Food & Beverage SectorSchneider Electric (Lake Forest, CA) is launching three new software solutions for Food & Beverage manufacturers. Announced at the company’s 2017 Innovation Summit: Software Conference running Oct. 3-5, in San Antonio, the trio is part of Schneider Electric’s ongoing effort to drive operational excellence, efficiency, and performance while enabling regulatory and food safety compliance. The new offerings include: Label Assurance inspects and validates […]
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Wireless E-Stop SystemSafe-E-Stop is a wireless e-stop system that integrates with existing hard-wired emergency-stop systems for assembly lines and other production systems. It allows an immediate shut down of a production line without having to run to a hard-wired e-stop station. The system provides continuous status indicators with LED and LCD displays. The Ethernet/IP port on the […]
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Color Sensor AdditionsWenglor color sensors select color objects in automated high-speed processes based on previously defined reference colors. The pulsed white light is insensitive to extraneous light and reportedly makes reliable color recognition possible even at varying scanning distances. Applications include detection of color markings on print marks, labels, and packages; color object sorting; verifying color values […]
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