Condition Monitoring for Food and Beverage

Emerson’s Condition Monitoring solutions help iconic food and beverage brands improve reliability for the most important rotating machinery assets across a wide range of production lines.

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Condition Monitoring – A Unique Challenge for Food and Beverage

Between today’s supply constraints and the retirement of many skilled plant personnel, few loyal consumers understand the delicate operational balance required of their favorite brands to deliver consistent product.

Facing unique challenges like strict safety, hygiene and compliance standards, as well as maintaining delicate climate conditions, manufacturers must maintain the availability of their critical rotating machinery.

Remote Monitoring with Machinery Health Software Offers Swift ROI, Reduces Foot Traffic in Sanitized Environments.

Wireless sensing, edge analytics and analysis software offer unique solutions for reliability teams charged with avoiding periods of costly machine downtime while maintaining high levels of hygiene and sterility in production areas.

Fortunately, the advanced technologies and software that drive condition monitoring are more cost effective to apply than ever before and can produce swift ROI and scale easily.

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Condition Monitoring Opportunity Areas for Food & Beverage

Cooling Systems - Compressors

Industrial-grade refrigeration is essential to many Food and Beverage producers around the world and the workhorse of your facility are your compressors. Depending on your specific application, Emerson’s AMS 6500 Balance of Plant Prediction Monitor or the award-winning AMS Asset Monitor may be suitable. Pair with AMS Machine Works software to gain deeper insight into the overall health of your plants most critical equipment.

AMS 6500 Balance of Plant Prediction Monitor

A versatile, scalable system that can be deployed in a variety of configurations to deliver online condition monitoring exactly as needed for your food and beverage application.

AMS Asset Monitor

Manages pervasive sensing while providing prediction, protection and process monitoring capabilities. It is designed to mount at the asset, reducing cabling requirements and other installation costs. It accommodates up to 12 CHARMs including Vibration CHARMs as well as DeltaV CHARMs for process inputs.

AMS Machine Works

A comprehensive software solution that greatly simplifies the fault diagnosis and analysis process by combining predictive maintenance techniques with comprehensive analysis tools to provide easy and accurate assessment of machinery health in your facility.

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Cooling Systems – Fans

Along with the compressors that power your cooling systems, critical fans and blowers are necessary to circulate climate-controlled air and ensure specific climate conditions like temperature and humidity are maintained.

Applications like this may be best monitored by mounting AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor to the asset and tracking and assessing its health within AMS Machine Works software.

AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor

Delivers full vibration data over a self-organizing wireless mesh network. It provides rich information about machinery health for both operations and maintenance personnel. Overall vibration, PeakVue measurements and temperature readings can be easily integrated into any control system or plant historian.

AMS Machine Works

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Packaging / Sealing Equipment

Cleanliness is a top priority in food-contact areas, including sealing and wrapping. By moving from route-based data collection to remote monitoring, more food and beverage manufacturers are reducing human contact in their sanitized production areas.

These applications may be best monitored with AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor and keeping watch over its health within AMS Machine Works software.

AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor

AMS Machine Works

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Ingredient Mixers, Blenders & Agitators

Stirring, mixing, and blending of slurry, solids, powder and other base ingredients are fundamental operations in many food and beverage categories.

Like sealing and wrapping, hygiene is of utmost concern. An industry-leading remote monitoring solution like the AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor (mounted at the asset) feeding machinery health data to AMS Machine Works software is an ideal solution.

AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor

AMS Machine Works

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Facts & Figures

39% of plants plan to decrease unscheduled downtime by expanding their monitoring capabilities.

86% of plants outsource some of all their maintenance operations.

46% of plants plan to decrease unscheduled downtime by evolving to predictive maintenance strategies.

FOOD AND BEVERAGE CASE STUDY

Food Processor Fortifies Critical Compressor Reliability with Emerson's 6500 ATG Protection and Prediction

“When we realized that our online protection system was obsolete, and it was harder and harder to get parts and/or service for it, we were extremely worried. That was when we were introduced to Emerson’s AMS 6500 ATG. we would recommend Emerson’s AMS 6500 ATG as the vibration prediction/protection system for other highly critical machines
throughout our company.”

Learn how Ingomar Packing Company, a premium supplier of industrial tomato products, replaced its obsolete protection system with Emerson’s AMS 6500 ATG for a critical compressor at its California (U.S.A.) processing facility.

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Three Strategies To Improve Reliability

Emerson's Drew Mackley explains why replacing maintenance rounds with sensors and automated data collection in operations such as this yogurt plant produces more reliable results.

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