Maintenance management

The ability to predict plant maintenance requirements and avoid unscheduled downtime is increasingly vital in meeting busy production schedules.

Additionally, it is important to maintain production facilities to the highest possible level, so that they perform at maximum efficiency with minimum waste and energy usage, and are capable of producing top quality products.

APV's Productivity solutions, which are especially designed for the food and beverage industries, are proving to be critical components in delivering predictive maintenance capability. For example, the APV Production Server is highly suited to activities such as OEE (Overall Equipment Efficiency), pin-pointing the impact that even the smallest disruption might cause and highlighting how equipment is performing. This helps to eliminate problems even before they occur by taking the necessary remedial action.

As Mr. Nitzel, Technical Director at Pernod Ricard headquarters in Paris, said, "The APV system allows us to achieve new levels of plant performance and quality. I can remotely monitor all relevant real-time and historical plant quality data and use this data for further analysis". To find out more, see the detailed article on the Pernod Suze installation.