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