Even though new processing and packaging equipment today has maintenance tools built in, proper planning and integration into an enterprise maintenance management system makes repair activities easier to track and helps prevent a stockroom full of expensive parts that are never needed.
While laboratory and other manual methods have been used for years, new automated moisture measurement and control systems can play an important role in improving product quality monitoring, increasing plant efficiency, and lowering energy costs.
Trico Corporation's Machine Vitals offers monitoring and predictive maintenance capabilities for oil-lubricated rotating machinery such as pumps, fans, gearboxes and hydraulic units.
Exploring the role of cutting-edge compressed air monitoring devices, flow meters and edge computing technologies in a 60,000-square-meter dairy facility.