October.Additional original feature editorial is available on www.tappi.org. To access the following articles go to www.tappi.org, click on the Solutions! link, then click on "Online Exclusives" In October, you can access the following features: Pilot plant automation will permit remote customer monitoring by Oliver Heise. Lynn Vanderbloemen, and Steve Wickesberg, Voith Paper Technology Center The 1.25 ton-per-hour pilot plant at Voith's Technology Center in Appleton. Wis adv. 1. Certainly; really; indeed. v. t. 1. To think; to suppose; to imagine; - used chiefly in the first person sing. present tense, I wis. See the Note under Ywis. ., is the largest pilot stock preparation and papermaking pa·per·mak·ing n. The process or craft of making paper. pa  per·mak facility in the world. It is unique because it employs
continuous flow like a production paper line. not batch. Within the
pilot plant is a testing laboratory for evaluating pulp and the final
paper product during trial runs. The facility is even designed for
hands-on training of customer operators.
Voith Paper has upgraded the plant's automation technology. A modular and scalable process control system--DeltaV from Emerson Process Management-has replaced a traditional DCS (1) See also DSC. (2) Digital Cross-connect System) A network switching and grooming device used by telecom carriers. See digital cross-connect. (distributed control system A distributed control system (DCS) refers to a control system usually of a manufacturing system, process or any kind of dynamic system, in which the controller elements are not central in location (like the brain) but are distributed throughout the system with each component ) installed when the plant was built 10 years ago. The major reason fro the upgrade: To access Voith papermaking equipment in customer plants around the world via the Internet to perform remote maintenance and performance monitoring. The automation ilas the power; flexibility, and capabilities of a traditional DCS in a compact, more cost effective package. If the pilot plant's control needs grow, the system can be scaled in 50 DST (1) (DeSTination) Contrast with SRC, which is an abbreviation of "source." (2) (Digital Signal Trust Company, Salt Lake City, UT, www.digsigtrust.com) An organization that sets up and manages PKI systems for companies and industry groups. (device signal tag) increments to minimize additional investment. Voith plans to use the new control technology to remotely monitor Voith papermaking machinery in customer plants. Although a remote monitoring (protocol) remote monitoring - (RMON) A network management protocol that allows network information to be gathered at a single computer. Whereas SNMP gathers network data from a single type of Management Information Base (MIB), RMON 1 defines nine additional MIBs that provide a system could be assembled as·sem·ble v. as·sem·bled, as·sem·bling, as·sem·bles v.tr. 1. To bring or call together into a group or whole: assembled the jury. 2. independent from the pilot plant's process control system, there are advantages for coupling pilot plant monitoring and control, customer monitoring, and the pilot plant laboratory instruments as well. The automation investment will eliminate some of the need for Voith technicians to visit customer sites. To access the full article, go to www.tappi.org, click on the Solutions! link, and open "Online Exclusives." ASSET MANAGEMENT IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY: Building the future service value chain far the paper industry by Jaakko Kuusisaari, TietoEnator The "maintenance management" market is transforming. The new model is a collaborative asset management" market, in which production equipment manufacturers and service suppliers take extensive responsibility over the lifetime performance of production lines. In the digital economy, a large percentage of products and services will be produced, distributed and consumed con·sume v. con·sumed, con·sum·ing, con·sumes v.tr. 1. To take in as food; eat or drink up. See Synonyms at eat. 2. a. digitally using data networks. The new IT solutions and components in the service value chain link together the systems of the service vendors and their customers, forming a prime example of a digital value chain. This paper describes some essential components and systems required to build the service IT architecture. Some potential business models and value-added services A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. are also discussed. TietoEnator's co-operation project with Metso Paper Service will be presented as a case example of implementing parts of the digital service value chain. To access the full article, go to www.tappi.org, click on the Solutions! link, and open "Online Exclusives." |
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