The problem for operations managers at Abbott’s production facility in Granada was not a lack of data. “We had
a lot of data and information, but in the end, we weren’t using that data and information to make decisions,”
Julio López Ortega, Senior Engineer, Process Monitoring & Control at Abbott said during his PI World 2018
presentation in Barcelona. As part of their process monitoring initiative, engineers at the Granada facility decided
to launch a pilot project around their pouch filling process. The project had several clear goals in mind:
• Improve real-time process monitoring and control
• Increase overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
• Increase yield by reducing scrap and taking control of filling machine leaks and overfilling
• Reduce product variability and increase batch cycle times ...
Year: 2019
The P&P Industry is generally driven by responsive actions: most engineers quickly become firefighters trying to alleviate the day-to-day challenges. How do we move from this reactive approach to a more proactive one and finally evolve to predictive process control? ...
Year: 2019
With the proliferation of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Monico recognized the need to introduce two products for machine owners – mCore® SDR and MonicoLive™. MonicoLive is a cloud-based monitoring service built on the Pi System. mCore SDR is ...
Year: 2019
Manufacturing organizations, on their journey to complete automation, have a wealth of historical data from sensors and control systems available. OSIsoft PI Systems create a highly proficient data, standardization and governance layer while OCS delivers the streaming data infrastructure for ...
Year: 2019
Seeq is a provider of self-service advanced analytics, reporting, and collaboration. The life-blood of data analytics is data, of course. Seeq excels with high speed, low latency Unfettered access to data; this level of is not a given, many things ...
Year: 2019