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How are you dealing with increasing complexity of automation movement?

How are you dealing with increasing complexity of automation movement?

By Joel Leonard • on August 10, 2009

To be more competitive, efficient and cost-effective, more and more companies are implementing automation and remote condition monitoring systems, sensors, alarms, PLCs, accelerometers, human-machine interface panels, etc. Now many are implementing wireless networks to monitor equipment globally at remote

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Maintenance is not a cost: How to justify an investment in M&R

Maintenance is not a cost: How to justify an investment in M&R

By Ned Mitenius • on July 22, 2009

As many of us strive to improve the reliability of our plants, several comments bemoan how challenging that is to do in an era of continuous deep cost cutting. They say that in their operation, maintenance is seen as a cost, and is one of the first things to arbitrarily cut. Some think their operations

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