AUTOMATION
CAPABILITIES OVERVIEW
CONSULTING
Our automation consulting services are focused on helping you improve your operations – whether it’s increasing machine speed and productivity or improving machine tension control and product quality. Consulting services may include investigation of the present machine operation, supporting calculations and evaluation of web transport, and geometry components. We document our observations and provide concise solutions and recommendations to meet your needs.
SOLUTIONS
Automation solutions that act as the critical link between plant floor data to enable an organization’s leaders to make better business decisions, our key operations and subsystems integrated and manufacturing information management systems include :
• Production Control • Supervisory Control
• Production Monitoring • Process Monitoring
• Quality Systems • Material Management
• Asset Management • Energy Management
SERVICES & SUPPORT
You can expect an integrated, collaborative maintenance strategy that includes the right combination of reactive, preventive and predictive methods and leverages service support resources that can help you reduce downtime, operate equipment to specifications, and expedite performance improvement changes.
STRATEGIC MAINTENANCE
In plants where downtime is a major concern, it is important to have a strategic approach to maintenance – one that combines the right predictive, preventive, and reactive methods throughout the system life-cycle to help you meet production and business goals. Unlike companies that can only offer one type of service, we offers a full line of services and support to reduce unplanned downtime.
We do this by:
• Applying a condition-based maintenance program to your machinery, letting you know if problems are going to occur before they happen
• Applying a preventative maintenance program to your control equipment to prevent potential problems and extend the life of the equipment
• Training your maintenance department to troubleshoot your control equipment and technical resources who can help your maintenance staff through more complex troubleshooting
• Making sure you have the right parts when you need them to get your machine up and running quickly
PREDICT
SERVICE ASSESSMENTS
• Baseline evaluations of plant floor technical skills, procedures & equipment
CONDITION MONITORING
• Predictive maintenance products & services for rotating equipment
ASSET MANAGEMENT SERVICES
• Maintenance, Repair & Operations (MRO) process and spare parts management
PREVENT
REMOTE MONITORING SERVICES
• System monitoring/diagnostics by offsite automation specialists
NETWORK SERVICES
• Design, validation, evolution and maintenance of control networks
TRAINING SERVICES
• Instructor-led training, self-paced training and competency testing
ONSITE SUPPORT SERVICES
• Troubleshooting, repair, and maintenance of automation and related equipment
REACT
REPAIR SERVICES
• Remanufacturing, repair, and exchange services and renewal Parts
PHONE SUPPORT SERVICES
• Real-time, direct access to automation specialists
ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROL (APC) SYSTEM
We design and implement advanced process control solutions for your specific application needs. An APC application pushes processes to increases throughput and reduces energy consumption. As a result, processes are easier to operate and products have more consistent quality. Additionally, an APC system provides extended information and insight for operator planning and decision-making. Typical return on an APC investment is 50% to 200% and can be achieved within 1 to 2 years.
SUPPLY & LOCAL CAPABILITIES
Our presence means you get prompt product availability and local support, wherever you are. And we collaborate with hundreds of third-party solution suppliers, including engineering companies, OEMs, peripheral device manufacturers,and software companies as well as a network of authorized System Integrators – all of this, to provide you with the best solutions available and supported by us so your plant can continue to run at peak efficiency.
INDUSTRY COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE PARTNERING FOR SUCCESS IN PRODUCTION
In the highly-charged world of ethanol production, there’s no substitute for experience. We have a successful track record in focusing optimization solutions on ethanol business issues. Because we understand what you need, partnering with us will help you minimize risk, improve efficiency, reduce process variability, and achieve greater profitability.
SUPERIOR VALUE-ADDED SERVICES & EXPERTISE
“We are committed to providing you with long term support, & the responsiveness and immediacy you need.”
These services add value and maximize your productivity. Our portfolio of services can meet the challenges at any stage of the project from the initial development of a Problem Solving and Analysis Plan to Program Management activities. We provide machine diagnostics and optimization, allowing our systems to collect and analyze information that can be used for efficiency measuring. Let us help you optimally manage your assets regardless of the maintenance strategy employed: Breakdown, Predictive, Preventive, Reactive or Corrective.
