B&R PRODUCT OF THE MONTH Audit trails made easy
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC APPOINTS MARTIN WALDER AS VP OF INDUSTRY
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chneider Electric has announced the appointment of Martin Walder as its UK &
Ireland Vice President of Industry. Walder who has held senior managerial roles at Rockwell Automation and ABB, and who currently chairs The Engineering & Machinery Alliance, joins Schneider Electric as it reshapes its leadership team for future growth. This follows the recent appointment of Tanuja Randery as UK & Ireland President.
“One of the biggest challenges for UK industry at the moment is that many
organisations are being held back by outdated factories and infrastructure. This doesn’t enable the kind of visibility and control that is required to optimise energy use and overall business performance. Schneider Electric is perfectly placed to address this pain point, offering migration paths to new technologies. It’s what sets them apart from traditional automation competitors,” said Martin Walder. He continued: “It is an exciting time to be joining the company and I am looking
forward to further expanding Schneider Electric’s range of intelligent equipment. By focusing on customer experience and aggressively developing our services organisation, I believe we can start a new exciting chapter for Schneider Electric and our customers.”
B&R has added an audit trail component to its mapp technology portfolio. For applications subject to the FDA’s Title 21 CFR Part 11 requirements, this means both accelerated development and reduced investment risk. The ability to retrace actions performed on a machine can also be of great service to its
manufacturer in the event of warranty claims. Companies in the food and pharmaceutical industries need the ability
to log operations performed by users seamlessly and without risk of tampering. The new mapp audit component is quick and easy way to implement and customise the necessary audit trail. There is no need to write a program for the audit trail function; all
that is needed is to configure the machine-specific parameters. mapp audit automatically retrieves the information it needs about the operator from the mapp user component using the client- server principle. Audit trail data is stored in memory with a checksum mechanism for tamper resistance. The data can be output in an encrypted file or viewed on the HMI using the integrated mapp audit visualisation. B&R Industrial Automation
www.br-automation.com T: 01733 371320
REPORT HIGHLIGHTS MAINTENANCE FAILINGS
A hard-hitting new report has highlighted critical maintenance failings that risk the long term health and productivity of British manufacturing. The report, ‘What You Don’t Repair You Destroy’,
catalogues a series of problems affecting manufacturing maintenance practices that threaten productivity, efficiency and competiveness. Published in conjunction with the Institute of
Engineering & Technology (IET), the report surveyed 300 engineers in a variety of roles from manufacturing director through to maintenance engineer. Key findings include 71 per cent of engineers describing their maintenance practices as reactive or planned; 50 per cent stating that maintenance training budgets have stagnated or decreased in recent years and that the majority of maintenance engineers receive only five days training or less every year. Alastair Johnstone, managing director of Bosch Rexroth UK, said: “We have been concerned for some
time that maintenance practices and skills have not kept pace with advances in machine complexity. “This report suggests that UK manufacturing is
walking a tightrope, with dated maintenance practices and budgetary constraints posing a critical risk to the long-term health of our manufacturing base. More strategic maintenance, such as condition monitoring and preventive maintenance techniques, are the exception rather than the rule. He continued: “This report is, of course, a snapshot. There are outstanding examples of maintenance practices in British manufacturing, you only need to look at the car industry as a prime example of that. But, it is vitally important that the rest of the industry follow suit and take a longer-term view of maintenance and its positive impact in order to safeguard the UK’s impressive productivity statistics which are, rightly, celebrated.”
www.bosch.com
ABB and leading pharma MES supplier, Werum IT Solutions, have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on control system solutions for the global pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries.
www.werum.com
Future Electronics and Digi International, the M2M solutions expert, have announced an expanded global distribution agreement.
www.digi.com
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