01• 2008 WORLD B e a m e x c o r p o r a t e m a g a z i n e • w w w. b e a m e x . c o m The benefits of using documenting calibrators Customer success stories Reliance Industries Limited (Patalganga Manufacturing Division), India Mazovian Gas Company (M SG), Plant £ód´z (Poland) Integrating calibrat ion software with CMMS

During the past 4 years, we have interviewed more than 2,000 calibration professionals and asked them what calibration-related trends do they see taking place in their companies in the coming years? Regardless of the type of the company, a higher level of integration and automation is in the top three of all responses. At this very moment many companies are dealing with challenges such as the need to simplify and streamline work processes, cut production down-time and eliminate double work. These challenges exist in every function and they all can be tackled by improving the level of system integration...

Calibration World 01/2008 MD’s letter Integrating calibration software with CMMS 4 The benefits of using documenting calibrators 12 The safest way to calibrate – introduction to intrinsically safe calibrators 16 Customer Success Story: Reliance Industries Limited, India 20 Customer Success Story: Mazovian Gas Company, Poland 22 Beamex News 24 The new Beamex® MC2-IS Intrinsically Safe Calibrator New brochures for Beamex® CMX Calibration Software options Beamex successful in the Annual Control Mag’s Readers’ Choice Awards Beamex at the Foundation Fieldbus General Assembly 2008 Beamex equips high...

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The benefits of integrating calibration software with a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) For process manufacturers today, having a reliable, seamlessly integrated set of IT systems across the plant, or across multiple sites, is critical to business efficiency, profitability and growth. Maintaining plant assets – whether that includes production line equipment, boilers, furnaces, special purpose machines, conveyor systems or hydraulic pumps – is equally critical for these companies. This is particularly true if the company is part of an assetintensive industry, where equipment...

e with CMMS Integrating Beamex® CMX Calibration Software with a maintenance management system (CMMS). CMMS Beamex® CMX Work Order Work Order Completed XML File CMX Connector Integration interface XML File The integration between Beamex® CMX and computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) enables exchange of the following data: From CMMS to CMX: • Position ID • Device ID • Location • Serial Number • Work Order Numbers From CMX to CMMS: • Work Order Numbers • Position ID • Max Error • Passed/Failed information • Calibration Date/Time • Calibrated by www.beamex.com/calibrationworld CALIBRATION...

acknowledgement order of this work back to the customer’s CMM system. All detailed calibration results are stored and available on the CMX database. Jarmo Hyvärinen, Sales Manager at Beamex comments: “Beamex’s customers have been asking us for some time whether we can integrate our CMX software with their maintenance management systems. Our integration services were introduced recently, and it has generated high interest among the customers. Many customers are currently going through the integration process.” These customers are in the food and beverage, oil and gas, energy, steel processing...

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This improves the quality of the entire system. Integration will also enable these companies to automate their calibration management with smart calibrators.” Beamex’s standard integration interface uses the XML (Extensible Markup Language) data file format, which enables the sharing of structured data across different information systems. Data fields such as position ID, device ID, location, serial number and work order number can be transferred from the customer’s CMM system to CMX. Similarly, data can be transferred the other way, including work order numbers; position ID; maximum error; pass/fail...

are likely to help save costs from a company’s balance sheet. Hence, the software community’s latest buzzword, ‘EAM’, or enterprise asset management. EAM is more than just maintenance management software. It’s all about companies taking a business-wide view of all their plant equipment and co-ordinating maintenance activities and resources with other departments and sites, particularly with production teams. Integrating a CMM system with calibration management software is an important step in the right direction here, particularly if the company has a high volume of process instruments that need...

For process manufacturers, annual calibration of all instruments across a manufacturing plant is common practice. In plant areas where instrument accuracy is critical to product quality or safety, calibration every six months – or even more frequently – is not unusual. However, the key final step in any calibration process – documentation – is often neglected or overlooked because of a lack of resources, time constraints or the pressure of everyday activities. Indeed, many manufacturers are now outsourcing all or some of their maintenance activities and so the contractor too is now under the...

to final storage on a computer, again, saving time and money. With instrument calibration, the calibration procedure itself is critical. Performing the calibration procedure in the same way each time is important for consistency of results. With a documenting calibrator, the calibration procedure can be automatically transferred from the computer to the handheld calibrator before going out into the field. As Heikki Laurila states: “Engineers who are out in the field performing instrument calibrations, get instant pass or fail messages with a documenting calibrator. The tolerances and limits for...