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PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE We can’t give you the secret to our recipe, but PHOTO: MOHAWK FINE PAPER The secret to our maintenance success is Ideally, maintenance and production should share at least some software, database and middleware tools to provide enterprise-wide asset management. This secure, easy-to-use EAM/CMMS software is available LAN-based or Web-based. Both versions provide: Data to drive decisions Reports to analyze problems & costs Capability for wireless PDA remote entries Bar code scan capability Web-based MaintiMizer 4.0 adds: Customizable text & label editing, including adding ﬁelds Integration capability with Sanitation, QC, Production and other departments Automatic audit log to meet AIB & other regulatory standards Optional ASP remote-hosting production assets – everything from motors to couplings. Everything they think is critical should show up on one screen.” is need is addressed in many kinds of systems, such as the MES systems that display optimal equipment eﬃciency (OEE) data to both production and maintenance users. ( is is detailed in “iPlant,” referenced in the More on the Web box below.) Maintenance and production share additional software, database and middleware tools to aggregate and apply advanced analytical algorithms to data from distributed process control systems and their plant asset management software add-ons, historical databases and multiple condition monitoring databases. While these remain overkill for most food plants, the technology is creeping toward the mainstream. Additionally, control and software vendors are bringing to market maintenance software products that can support the data ﬂow from control systems to MES systems. For example, GE Fanuc (www.gefanuc. com) in April added a Maintenance Gateway module to its Proﬁcy automation suite that allows both maintenance and production to share real-time and OEE indicators. e system can reside on the plant ﬂoor, in the maintenance department or both. “Whatever pieces of our system you want to integrate, whether it’s work order generation or vibration analysis or other condition monitoring measures, we’ll provide out-of-the-box integration with EAMs,” says Brandon Henning, GE’s Global Industry Manager for Food & Beverage. IBM’s Maximo system is ﬁrst with a full interface, followed by SAP, Oracle, Datastream and others, the company reports. Henning adds that OPC and other standard integration tools may ﬁll the bill for users in the meantime. Even at the lowest level of plant-ﬂoor automation, smart-transmitting sensors can report self-diagnostic data to warn technicians when they are about to fail. One example is the Ingold line of pH and dissolved oxygen sensors from Mettler-Toledo (www. us.mt.com), Bedford, Mass. ey include a smart chip in the sensor tip that diagnoses its own impedance and compares historic calibration trends. “So you can go into a predictive cycle, where the sensor tells you it’s time to recalibrate or replace,” says Roger Goavert, engineering, procurement and construction projects manager with Mettler-Toledo Ingold. From sensor to plant ﬂoor to management system, industry standards are crucial to having these solutions connect and communicate. FREE demos Contact us now to discuss your needs. MORE ON THE WEB More preventive/predictive maintenance feature stories are on our web site: • “Fix Me - Serving Up Condition-based Maintenance,” www.foodprocessing. com/articles/2008/279.html • “iPlant,” www.foodprocessing.com/articles/2008/083.html • “Plug it in?: The decision to integrate condition monitoring,” www.foodprocessing.com/articles/2008/280.html • “Standardizing Condition-Based Monitoring,” www.foodprocessing.com/ OpenOandM FOODPROCESSING.COM theCMMS.com http://theCMMS.com http://www.gefanuc.com http://www.gefanuc.com http://www.foodprocessing.com/articles/2008/279.html http://www.foodprocessing.com/articles/2008/279.html http://www.foodprocessing.com/articles/2008/083.html http://www.foodprocessing.com/articles/2008/280.html http://www.foodprocessing.com/articles/2008/280.html http://www.foodprocessing.com/OpenOandM http://www.foodprocessing.com/OpenOandM http://theCMMS.com http://FOODPROCESSING.COM

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