Many pharmaceutical manufacturers are using new smart condition monitoring in pharma to boost productivity. Consequently, the improved monitoring helps reduce downtime as they move from batch production to continuous operation to improve OEE. Pharma is a highly regulated sector with huge financial incentives to keep production lines running. Importantly, pharmaceutical manufacturers loses […]
The growth of wireless applications in industrial automation results from recognised benefits of efficiency and improved operator safety. The move from electro-mechanics to electronics enables them to monitor and control unintended movements of the machine or unexpected changes to the process. Monitoring this functional safety is enhanced by integrating wireless Functional Safety Functional safety […]
In the Autumn budget for 2017, the Chancellor has focused on Britain’s poor productivity growth compared to other European countries. UK investment in automation is lower and we use fewer robots than most industrialised competitors. In 1994, the economist Paul Krugman said Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything. […]
ABB ACS 580 improving productivity of old machine Retrofitting two twenty-year-old production machines with ABB variable speed drives (VSDs) and motors improved productivity and efficiency by reducing stoppages. In addition it enhanced the quality control of the finished product. Samuel Taylor produces precision metallic components for the aerospace and automotive industries at its […]
This results in Smart condition monitoring for smart machines. In recent years, condition monitoring technologies have become more popular as part of preventative maintenance programmes. This means machine maintenance can be based on actual running time rather than the calendar. The advent of smart machines means the newer smart condition monitoring ((SCM) systems take […]