| | | Senior Instrument Technician, David Wright, remembers what it was like to perform all of those calibration operations with paper and pencil during their regularly scheduled maintenance shut-downs. "It took us a week to perform the calibrations and a month to put together the paperwork." Today, Croda uses the CMX calibration industrial management software system from Beamex to coordinate the data collection operations and archive the results. "It's faster, easier, and more accurate than our old paper-based procedures," says Wright. "It's saving us around 80 man-hours per maintenance period and should pay for itself in less than three years." CMX runs under the Windows operating system and connects directly to several kinds of calibrators. It is capable of tracking pre-defined, customized process instruments and calibration standards such as pressure, temperature, electrical, indicator, industrial recorders, and mass. Multidimensional plant hierarchy with uninstalled, installed, and spare equipment can have multiple functions, multiple procedures, and work orders, including equipment classification. Once a calibration task has been performed, CMX records the calibration history together with timestamps, electronic signatures, record status, and a complete audit trail. These functions are especially necessary in regulated industry, such as the pharmaceutical industry, where routine calibration operations are required to show that quality-critical instruments continue to perform within the defined tolerances. The records that are produced must be stored and be retrievable upon demand to demonstrate to an auditor that the plant is being maintained to an acceptable level. CMX complies with the new legislation, concerning electronic records ► ►► | | |