Water treatment becomes trendy.ELGA ELGA English Ladies' Golf Association (UK) Process Water has introduced AquatrendTM - a plant monitoring service The general surveillance of known air traffic movements by reference to a radar scope presentation or other means, for the purpose of passing advisory information concerning conflicting traffic or providing navigational assistance. that puts a water treatment expert on the customer's team, helping plant engineers to get to grips with myths and realities of water treatment. ELGA Process Water's treatment specialists work with the customer's plant engineering team to carry out a detailed audit of the water treatment plant, comparing current performance with the original design and future requirements. Then the team identifies and agrees a set of Key Performance Indicators Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are financial and non-financial metrics used to quantify objectives to reflect strategic performance of an organization. KPIs are used in Business Intelligence to assess the present state of the business and to prescribe a course of action. (KPls) which will be monitored. The KPIs will vary from one site to another depending on what the water treatment plant is used for, but typical KPls include raw water quality, treated water quality, treated water volume output, wastewater per unit of treated water, resin regeneration or membrane cleaning frequency and so on. For each KPI KPI Key Performance Indicator KPI Kuwait Petroleum International KPI Kiev Polytechnic Institute (Ukraine) KPI Kernel Programming Interface KPI King Pin Inclination (vehicle steering geometry angle) the team will set a normal or target value, an early warning level and an action level. Monitoring can take a variety of forms depending on the customer's preference: electronic data logging (data) data logging - (data acquisition) Storing a series of measurements over time, usually from a sensor that converts a physical quantity such as temperature, pressure, relative humidity, light, resistance, current, power, speed, vibration into a voltage that is then converted , traditional Log Sheets or Statistical Process Control (SPC 1. (business) SPC - Statistical Process Control. Something to do with quality management. 2. (body) SPC - Software Productivity Centre. 3. (company) SPC - Software Publishing Corporation. 4. ) Charts for the customer to collect data. If the customer has electronic Data Acquisition or Datalogging facilities then ELGA Process Water can monitor the plant remotely, using telephone or Internet access. However the information is collected, it is reviewed by an ELGA Process Water specialist who reports regularly on trends and provides simple explanations of technical issues and clear recommendations of actions required. There is a "traffic light" reporting system for KPI values--green for Normal, amber for Early Warning and red for Action Required. Depending on the level of service selected, the regular Review reports can be supplemented by regular AquatrendTM review meetings. At the highest level of AquatrendTM service, ELGA Process Water will take over the complete management of the water treatment plant. Already more than 10 major production sites have signed up for AquatrendTM monitoring services including RWE RWE Rot-Weiss Essen (Germann football club) RWE Ralph Waldo Emerson RWE Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerke (German Power Supplier) RWE Read Write Execute RWE Right Wing Extremist npower with a paper based data collection system, and both Scottish & Southern Energy and Corus with on-line data collection. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Contact ELGA Process Water on tel 01628 897000 or visit www.elgaprocesswater.co.uk |
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