- Incorporating advanced technologies, automation and streamlined processes for operational efficiency
- Enhancing connectivity to enable real-time data-collection and analysis, empowering informed business decisions
- Remote monitoring and control enabling situational awareness and centralized operations
In this article highlighting legacy upgrades, Huffman Engineering explores a step by step methodology for upgrading aging infrastructure.
According to the recent poll Digitalizing Industrial Motors & Drives: Four Upgrades Enabling the Next Era of Efficiency, “Extending asset lifetime and improving efficiency are overwhelming drivers.” The next most frequently cited motivators are the desire for improved operational efficiency (99%) and better asset utilization (99%), painting a clear picture of an industry focused on maximizing the value and performance of existing capital-intensive equipment.
Industrial-automation equipment in all industries, especially in heavily regulated industries, requires continued attention to not only perform well but remain in compliance with perpetually changing regulations. Too often, organizations immediately jump to the idea that they will need to re-build their entire systems at a huge cost to achieve this, but that’s not always the only way.
Legacy Upgrades
Legacy systems don’t always require a complete overhaul to deliver meaningful improvements. Incremental control-system upgrades can be a practical way to improve performance without the need for a full overhaul.
Upgrades can positively affect operations, efficiency, safety and overall business performance, freeing up your employees to focus on higher-level strategic job roles.
Huffman Engineering‘s Denver Lead Engineer, Nick Hein, PE and Denver Chemical Engineer Caleb Feagans explain how making a strategic plan to upgrade aging infrastructure can minimize dangerous risk from a downtime and a production standpoint.
Read the entire article from Automation World here: Legacy Upgrades: Make a Plan or Risk Costly Downtime | Automation World
