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

Facts & Figures

Fact 1

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

fact 2

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

fact 3

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

Condition Monitoring for Compressor
AMS 6500 ATG

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. 

Three Strategies To Improve Reliability

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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