Videographic Recorder Reduces Ongoing Maintenance Costs and Improving Data Storage and Handling.
Paper recorders have their chips thanks to SM3000 from ABB
A single SM3000 videographic recorder from ABB is doing the job of five traditional paper chart recorders at Premier Foods’ Sarsons vinegar factory in Middleton, Manchester. As well as delivering an initial cost saving, the SM3000 is reducing ongoing maintenance costs and improving data storage and handling.
“The old recorders were obsolete and we couldn’t get spare parts from them. When they broke down we were getting repair bills of over £1,000 a time,” says electrical engineer Paul Kugler. “We could have replaced them with new paper chart recorders, but that would have meant we needed five of them. It made sense to go for a single videographic recorder instead.”
The SM3000 multipoint recorder gathers data from five vinegar pasteurisation lines. Pasteurisation heats the vinegar to destroy any spoilage organisms that could shorten its shelf life. Product quality is a top priority and it’s crucial for Premier Foods to monitor the pasteurisation process closely. The SM3000 records the temperature of each pasteuriser once every second.
“Data storage is a big advantage of the videographic recorder,” says Kugler. “At the moment the data is stored on a flash disk on the recorder and uploaded to a shared drive once a week. That’s also backed up, so we have the security of the data being stored in three separate places, rather than on a single paper chart.”
Electronic data storage also makes it easier to search and manipulate the data to track trends or spot the early signs of maintenance issues that may require attention. “The searchability is superb,” says Kugler. “The recorder stores the data in a spreadsheet. We can now create trend graphs or search for data from a particular time of day, for example.”
Kugler also says that learning to take full advantage of the SM3000’s more sophisticated functions was made easier by WH Good, the ABB stockist which supplied the recorder. “WH Good installed and set it up for us. They asked us what we wanted to do and worked out how to make it happen. They did everything really,” he says.
The SM3000 Multipoint Videographic Recorder features state-of-the-art data storage and security technologies. Up to 36 universal analog inputs, communicated inputs or math results can be recorded and displayed in a variety of operator views. Extensive data storage capability is provided by 8Mb of onboard flash memory, which can store 2.8 million samples of data, with the added option of either SmartMedia or Compact Flash removable memory cards.
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Layla Hewitt
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