John Cray, principal consultant at Life Cycle Engineering with 40+ years of experience with plant maintenance, speaks with managing editor Samantha Russo about tips for keeping your facility in shape. In this episode, Cray shares how to plan ahead and react to the unexpected, utilizing CMMS systems and a few horror stories.
For an edible oil processor, the best way to efficiently manage unique characteristics of different products was by adopting modern control loop performance monitoring software with the ability to recognize different operating states.
Most manufacturing operations are constantly faced with change, and therefore they must be designed to adapt. Change routinely presents itself in the form of different production recipes, varying material properties, irregular equipment availability, weather extremes and many other factors. What’s more, change often includes several of these variables concurrently, and each may interact with others—adding still more complexity.
The FOSS IQX solution is one centralized data platform for managing, optimizing and monitoring analytical instruments with transparency across networks and automation.
The software provides a graphical interface intended for complete and easy system integration, camera setting flexibility, advanced preview and recording, and synchronized capture to microsecond accuracy as well as calibration, background and production take management capabilities.