PII Podcast
A regular series where our expert host Dave Howell discuses the latest technologies and future insights throughout the manufacturing process industries
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Pioneering the future of Process Analysis
04/03/2024
Pioneering the future of Process Analysis
"Sensors are great, but they have their limitations" - that’s where analysers come in! In this episode, Paul Hamilton from Metrohm discusses simple and innovative ways for Process Engineers to perform complex chemical analysis. Metrohm is best known for producing analytical laboratory hardware and software, but Paul explains how the process analysis side of the business brings all of the typical laboratory analysis techniques and integrates them into the process plant, producing lab-quality data in the plant, fully automated. Compared to some other countries, the UK is behind when it comes to the process industry, but there is a shift happening, and now is the time to innovate and automate. There are countless ways in which a process can be automated, and most people don’t even realise it! A lot of companies are reliant on intermittent data from a lab, and that creates a bottleneck. Whereas automating your process provides real-time detailed data, which allows you to be proactive and make fast and accurate decisions; this, in turn, eliminates downtime, reduces costs, and raises efficiency. Paul discusses real-life examples of companies and industries that have embraced automating their process and the results they have seen... often automation is much simpler than people think! Paul talks about how you can retrofit an analyser into your process, and how surprisingly easy that can be. Lastly, Paul talks over what’s next for the process industry... spectroscopy?... Don’t miss this insightful and eye-opening episode!
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Radial Insert Ball Bearings technology
03/28/2024
Radial Insert Ball Bearings technology
For machines in the food industry, you need special solutions. Extreme temperatures, high mechanical loads, short cycle times, round-the-clock operation, and regular cleaning cycles require very robust components. Strict food safety regulations pose as much of a challenge here as efficiency and sustainability. Whether it’s for process automation in food production, for beverage production or the packaging industry, in all cases you need food-compatible rolling bearings, plain bearings, and linear guidance systems as well as adapted lubrication and seal concepts. Even during the planning stage of your machines, it is already important to find the right rolling bearing solution for your application, for example with the aid of simulation tools. And with permanent condition monitoring, you create the best conditions for the reliable, hygienic, and economical operation of your equipment. Learn more about how you can successfully meet the challenges of the food, beverage, and packaging industry. In this podcast we are considering Radial Insert Ball Bearings technology and also Scheffler's condition monitoring technology, Optime. My guests today are Tom Richmond, Scheffler’s Food and Beverage Sales Engineer and Sally Sillis, Shefler Technical Manager. Topics include: What makes Radial Insert Ball Bearings technology particularly applicable to the Food & Beverage industry. Overview of Scheffler's condition monitoring technology, Optime and its core principles. How Schaeffler’s Condition Monitoring services and technologies support customers. How important is FDA certification. How Schaeffler is involved with the design stage of a new process, or helping customers to evolve existing systems and processes. An outline the sustainability credentials of Optime and Radial Insert Ball Bearings technologies. Why contact bearings or combined radial and axial loads are particularly applicable to the food and beverage industry. How Optime can be integrated into existing machinery and control systems.
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How interface measurement could transform your business
03/19/2024
How interface measurement could transform your business
In this episode of the PII Podcast, we delve into the world of interface level measurement, concentrating on those difficult multiphase applications with dynamic emulsion layers. The key to optimising performance in these situations is solving the emulsion factor – a hurdle that has long stood in the way of accurate and economical level detection. Traditionally, no single technology has been able to economically measure the total hydrocarbon level, the top of the emulsion (where water mixes into oil), and the bottom of the emulsion layer, (where oil mixes into water). This multiphase scenario has challenged many traditional technologies, each of which faces its own limitations. Despite the considerable efforts from instrumentation manufacturers, a truly cost-effective solution has been elusive... Until now. Today we are exploring TDR-based technology and how this is changing the game. Learn the science behind it, and what it means for the future of industries reliant on precise level measurement. To unpack all of that and give us his expert insights,we are joined by Bob Botwinski - a Senior Global Product Manager for AMETEK LMS.
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3D level measuring technology
01/11/2024
3D level measuring technology
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Cote-Shield Technology
11/28/2023
Cote-Shield Technology
AMETEK Drexelbrook's "Cote-Shield" technology revolutionises point level detection in tanks and vessels by effectively ignoring conductive coatings on the sensing element, ensuring a reliable, repeatable measurement and maintenance-free operation. This technology overcomes the common issue of false alarms caused by process coating buildup that can cause false alarms potentially interrupting the critical process and costing loss in profits. Cote-Shield addresses this issue by introducing a three-terminal style probe design that incorporates a Cote-Shield element, that ignores process coating buildup and prevents false alarms. This innovation enables Drexelbrook's level devices to function reliably, even under the most challenging process conditions. Preventing these types of failures can help save on preventative maintenance, automate your process, and save money. Renowned for their reliability, Drexelbrook's level devices equipped with Cote-Shield technology have been deployed in more than 100,000 systems around the world. They are known for delivering consistent results even in harsh conditions and are relied upon by industry leading companies across the globe.
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The importance of having an accurate and reliable calibration solution
07/24/2023
The importance of having an accurate and reliable calibration solution
In this podcast from Beamex, we talk about the importance of providing accurate measurements, reliable data and traceability when performing instrument calibrations. We’ll explore how the digitalisation of data helps to improve operational efficiency for optimal asset performance, with examples of industries where calibration occurs, particularly looking at how National Grid has been able to reduce costs and improve efficiency of their calibration processes.
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Improving bulk material management through cloud inventory and continuous level sensors
01/05/2023
Improving bulk material management through cloud inventory and continuous level sensors
In this podcast, BinMaster’s Regional Vice President of Sales Mike Mossage shares how processing industries can benefit from cloud inventory, the use of continuous level sensors, and the application of Industry 4.0 in making bulk material management more efficient. For more than a decade, Mike has helped industrial manufacturers across diverse industries solve their most complex bulk inventory issues and make peoples’ jobs easier.
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The manufacturing industry's status and growth
11/29/2022
The manufacturing industry's status and growth
The importance of robust, integrated, and secure CQV services in all industries, emphasizing pharmaceuticals. In the past three years, the global manufacturing process scale-up to support the COVID-19 vaccine development led to a complete transformation of best manufacturing practices across all industries. In this podcast, CAI's Director of UK Operations Zagros Barazenda shares the best practices in operational readiness from his experience consulting in cGMP Biomedical, laboratory, and Biotechnological environments. Most recently, he facilitated the relationship between a global-leading COVID-19 vaccine developer and a brand manufacturing facility site to complete a typically 3-5 year project in one year. Shifting from a chronological to an integrated approach – where quality assurance, automation, and engineering professionals are present in every phase – can help your production facility improve efficiency and ensure a seamless path to market. Topics include: How a risk-based approach in the discovery phase can reduce deviations throughout the project's lifecycle How COVID-19 is changing manufacturing processes and operations – through the evolving workplace, adopting automation and AI, and new compliance standards How big players in the pharmaceutical industry are now outsourcing to CMOs The tell-signs a facility is not meeting government audit regulatory and compliance standards
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Celebrating 20 years of great partnerships that deliver for ABB customers
11/16/2022
Celebrating 20 years of great partnerships that deliver for ABB customers
In this latest podcast Dave speaks with Scott Kirk, Industrial Sales Manager for ABB Measurement & Analytics UK & IE. Here Dave discusses with Scott the value of building strong relationships with channel partners and distributors and all of the benefits that partnership delivers for customers of ABB products up and down the country. Topics include: - How ABB approaches partnerships to ensure goals are achieved - How the ABB Value Provider works and what advantages it delivers - What is the core value of becoming an ABB Value Partner - Examples of clients using the ABB Value Provider service - How ABB helps its partners stay current with changing trends in measurement and analytics - Transformative changes in the way businesses use instrumentation - Predictions for future measurement and analytics - How will the ABB Value Provider program evolve into the future
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Smart recipe handling to transform manufacturing capabilities
07/19/2022
Smart recipe handling to transform manufacturing capabilities
Recipe control is a very specialist field that applies to a wide range of industry sectors. The data collected by a well designed recipe handling process control system can give deep insights into all aspects of production. Recipe control can also function as a quality control method or more accurately risk control when the product being made has to meet defined standards and need to be as reliable as possible for incorporation in to end user's finished products. In this podcast Charles Williams discusses recipe control from his experience in multiple industries. Charles is second generation in Promtek Ltd, a family owned business in the heart of Stoke on Trent. Trusting the data in your recipe control system is one of the most important steps you can take to unlock the potential to improve efficiency, sustainability and quality control for your production facilities.
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Seeing the future health of industrial manufacturing production assets
05/04/2022
Seeing the future health of industrial manufacturing production assets
Unplanned downtime in industrial manufacturing causes productivity loss, timeline delays and lost revenue – estimated at around $50 billion each year. To address this tremendous market problem, PARC, a Xerox Company, recently launched Novity, a new venture to commercialise predictive maintenance technology. The technology solution uses equipment sensors and proprietary algorithms to enable industrial manufacturers to see the future health of their production assets. The Novity TruPrognostics™ engine relies on a combination of machine learning and physics-based models of equipment, allowing it to predict failures with 90% or better accuracy and lead times of months, not weeks or days. In this episode, Dave speaks with Markus Larsson, General Manager and founder of Novity about the pioneering technology and what it means for the future of industrial manufacturing.
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The impact of chemical shortages on water treatment
04/27/2022
The impact of chemical shortages on water treatment
In this episode Dave speak with Robert Stancombe, Business Development Manager of Veolia Mobile Water Services. Power plant operators are increasingly looking at ways to optimise the use of water in steam and cooling cycles in thermal power plants. However, implementing new technologies can present challenges. Robert Stancombe of Mobile Water Services discusses how the use of mobile reverse osmosis assets can help streamline the implementation process and help operators who are increasingly exposed to high chemical costs and supply shortages. Discover the many advantages of reverse osmosis upstream of a demineralisation plant for high-pressure and cooling water applications and the benefits of using a temporary system. A growing number of plant operators have already gone mobile with the implementation of a reverse osmosis pilot. Better system efficiency, cost savings and reduced environmental impact have even convinced some to extend the mobilisation of the reverse osmosis asset to last a number of years without the need for investment in fixed plants.
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How Digital Technology is Advancing Maintenance and Predictive Maintenance in the Process Industry
10/26/2021
How Digital Technology is Advancing Maintenance and Predictive Maintenance in the Process Industry
With the global focus on emissions & sustainability, industries are under even more pressure to increase the agility & reliability of emissions monitoring in real time. ABB’s Datalyzer is an application that's been developed to help respond to this challenge. Here, ABB Measurement & Analytics Digital Lead, David Lincoln, discusses how such tools remove complexity by transforming data into valuable business insights, not just for emissions monitoring but for all process industries looking to maximise uptim
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Digital Transformation Strategy in BEUMER Group
09/27/2021
Digital Transformation Strategy in BEUMER Group
BEUMER Group has declared digitisation a top priority to secure its own future viability. But how can this be achieved? How can a company that has been operating mechanical engineering as its core business for around 80 years push digitisation to its full extent? To get fit for the future, BEUMER Group is relying on two spin-offs which - with the support of start-ups - are to carry digital projects into the group company.
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How breweries can become more digital
07/22/2021
How breweries can become more digital
In our latest Podcast Dave speaks with GEA’s Hassan Yaszdi, Senior Product Manager Digital Service, and Dr. Mark Schneeberger, Head of Development of GEA’s Beer and Alcoholic Beverage Business and brewmaster, about how GEA is paving the way for breweries (and possibly other industries, too) to become more digital with their game-changing software.
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Remote access and management systems for the chemical industries
07/20/2021
Remote access and management systems for the chemical industries
In this final episode of our 3-part series with Siemens, Dave speaks with Ian Poulett, Business Manager - Industrial Communication, RTLS & Identification, who discusses the types of systems used to manage networks and process systems.
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What Industry 4.0 means to the chemical industry
07/13/2021
What Industry 4.0 means to the chemical industry
In this second of our 3 part series with Siemens, Dave speaks with Dave Adams, Team Leader - Process Specialists.
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Air Gap Systems and Cyber Security for the Chemical Industries
06/30/2021
Air Gap Systems and Cyber Security for the Chemical Industries
In the first of a 3 part Podcast series with Siemens, Dave speaks with Paul Hingley the Product Solution & Security Officer GB&I at Siemens Digital Industries Software.
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Monitoring and control systems for the water sector
05/20/2021
Monitoring and control systems for the water sector
As a major supplier of monitoring and control systems to the water sector, Ovarro is fully versed in the challenges faced by global utilities today.
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A true IIoT solution for automated valves
02/16/2021
A true IIoT solution for automated valves
Here, Remco Bakker, Business Development Manager of Imtex Controls, discusses the introduction a new pioneering product; the Valvescan Diagnostic Monitoring System.
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What is self-service advanced analytics?
11/05/2020
What is self-service advanced analytics?
You may read about digitalisation, Industry 4.0, Analytics, IIoT, Data driven decision making, and other related topics almost daily. The more you see these topics pass by, the more diffused it may have become.
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Think Sealless Pumps
10/15/2020
Think Sealless Pumps
Here Dave Howell speaks with David Clark, Senior Engineering Manager at HMD Kontro Sealless Pumps, who traces the evolution of magnetic drive sealless pumps, from their introduction 70 years ago to the very latest developments and materials that are driving the industry forward.
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Single Pair Ethernet
09/07/2020
Single Pair Ethernet
Single Pair Ethernet is the technology that makes it possible to implement the Internet of Things consistently within industry, right through to field-based applications. Here, Dave speaks with Simon Seereiner, Head of Product Management for SAI and Industrial Ethernet at Weidmüller, who explains how Weidmüller are using this technology and the range of benefits it offers.
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Using Analytics to Accelerate the Digital Transformation of the Pharmaceuticals Industry
08/17/2020
Using Analytics to Accelerate the Digital Transformation of the Pharmaceuticals Industry
Lawrence and Richard discuss how digital technologies can help pharmaceuticals manufacturers ensure security of supply, guaranteeing that customers have drugs available to them when they are needed, bringing tangible operational efficiencies and helping them avoid too much time spent on data science experiments that don’t bring a business benefit.
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Dave Howell talks with Alan Hunt, Electromagnetic Flow Product Manager at ABB
08/06/2020
Dave Howell talks with Alan Hunt, Electromagnetic Flow Product Manager at ABB
In this latest podcast Dave speaks with Alan Hunt, ABB Product Manager UK & IE – Electromagnetic Flow. Here Alan discusses issues around water use and water conservancy and his passion about what he calls the “Holy Trinity” of water sustainability.
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Dave Howell talks with Patrick Deruytter Vice President Customer Care & Large PMO Emerson Automation Solutions
07/06/2020
Dave Howell talks with Patrick Deruytter Vice President Customer Care & Large PMO Emerson Automation Solutions
In this latest podcast, Patrick Deruytter, Vice President of Customer Care and Large Projects at Emerson, talks about the acceleration of digital engagement and how it is changing the way we work. Patrick discusses the new reality where work is done anywhere – and how extreme collaboration, speed of interaction and “anytime – everywhere” expectations are driving this shift.
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Dave Howell talks with Glenn Schulz, FDT Group, Managing Director
05/26/2020
Dave Howell talks with Glenn Schulz, FDT Group, Managing Director
Here, Glenn discusses the exciting latest developments about how the FDT Group have launched their latest digital transformation for the industrial automation sector with its’ new FDT 3.0 (FITS) standard. The new FDT IIoT ecosystem empowers scalable, skid-to-cloud solutions and innovative business models unlocking universal device integration with mobility and remote access for the new era of automation. Learn more about the enhanced offerings with FDT 3.0 by listening to this Podcast.
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Dave Howell talks with Stephane Vanouche at Emerson
05/22/2020
Dave Howell talks with Stephane Vanouche at Emerson
By merging pneumatics with advanced software and data analytics you can generate actionable insights, optimise and improve your process control cost and efficiency, make informed decisions and drive operational improvement
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Dave Howell talks with Daryl Cowlan Sales Specialist at Weidmüller
05/15/2020
Dave Howell talks with Daryl Cowlan Sales Specialist at Weidmüller
In this latest podcast, Daryl Cowlan, Printing Systems and Tools Specialist at Weidmuller UK talks about how Weidmuller’s Workplace Solutions take customers through the phases of panel building, from planning to installation to operation, with optimally coordinated solutions for their workshops.
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How to become a truly data-driven plant
04/23/2020
How to become a truly data-driven plant
Dave Howell talks to Fréderick Motte at TrendMiner: If you want to increase yield, control product quality and reduce costs in your production process, operational excellence is most likely at the top of your wish-list. You are determined to enable data-driven decision making at each level of the organisation.
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