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With customer demand for predictive maintenance tools on the increase, ABB today announced it has acquired a minority stake in Swedish start-up Viking Analytics via itsventure capital unit, ABB Technology Ventures (ATV). The strategic partnership to develop the next generation of predictive asset health analytics for electrical equipment, will allow customers to predict anomalies before they become a risk to their
New Rotor Welding Cell (RWC)
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operations. Financial details of the investment were not disclosed. Using AI-based algorithms, Viking Analytics has created an analytics engine that automatically detects unseen or pre-failure operational conditions for electrical equipment. “Our company’s mission is to allow industrial specialists to easily extract insights and value from both process data and asset data through AI,” said Rajet Krishnan, CEO of Viking Analytics. “Entering into this strategic cooperation with ABB allows us to expand our capability in the electrical equipment domain and to develop together a solution to detect anomalies in medium voltage equipment. ABB’s investment further cements the strong relationship between the companies and will enable us to develop and scale new AI software solutions for our customers.”
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www.abb.com The power of gear pumps in the pharmaceutical industry
That pharmaceuticals place high demands on their production is hardly surprising. The end-product must be always safe and effective, and waste of precious API ‘s must be avoided wherever possible. For example, during production in the pharmaceutical industry, metering pumps are used to dose additives very accurately. These pumps must meet high standards. This is vital to ensure that drug production is safe and effective. Gear pumps are then a logical choice. One of the advantages of gear pumps is their precision, which is very requirements of a production process. Wasting expensive ingredients is therefore a thing of the past. Moreover, gear pumps are characterised
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www.suurmond.co.uk Standard Operating Procedures – A guide to SOP’s Why have SOP’s?
Quality, productivity and safety are the main drivers behind the development of SOPs for your business. Safety (or the absence of it) does not always show up in the decision-making of a business. For this reason, there is a safety law in the UK that require it to be properly considered. Unfortunately, many interventions are post-incident where lives have already been lost or permanently damaged often in a manner that could easily have been avoided by the proper arrangements.
The HSE (Health & Safety Executive) explains the need for SOP’s to help alleviate accidents and fatalities in the workplace :
“Provision of clear, concise and accurate operating procedures is the most effective measure to prevent, control and mitigate such events”
How do we write SOP’s?
• Identifying all foreseeable hazards and controls • Look at the work activity as a whole
• Involving staff in detailing each individual step, as they are best suited to understand the work activity in detail
Spiers Engineering Safety’s SOP Guide will help you understand what a Standard Operating Procedure is, why you should have them, and how to write a procedure that is clear and concise. We also offer a Standard Operating Procedure template, which can be downloaded straight to your inbox.
What are SOP’s?
A Safe Operating Procedure is a variation of the term Standard Operating Procedure (SOP). An SOP is a formal detailed work instruction, often used in manufacturing and logistics, to ensure that work is completed in the manner required for quality purposes.
Read our complete SOP guide here.
Spiers Engineering Safety offers an SOP writing service that will help document your standard ways of working in the form of a Standard Operating Procedure and risk assessment. One of our experienced engineers will visit your site to discuss the level of detail you require, what work procedures need to be recorded, and start to complete supporting risk assessments.
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