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Essential Guide to Choosing a CSIA-Certified System Integrator
When your automation project impacts production, quality, compliance, or operational efficiency, choosing the right system integrator matters. That’s why many manufacturers, utilities, and life sciences companies seek out CSIA-Certified System Integrators. Therefore, in industrial automation projects confidence in project success from the start is vital. According to the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA), certification provides…
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How Do you Tackle Legacy Industrial Control System Upgrades? Make a Plan or Risk Costly Downtime
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…
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Automation Compliance Solutions For Regulated Industries
How Experience, Compliance Expertise, and Optimization Strategies Support Long-Term Operational Success Introduction In highly regulated industries, automation systems must do more than improve efficiency. They must support compliance, maintain product quality, ensure operational safety, and withstand rigorous audits and inspections. Whether operating in pharmaceutical manufacturing, water and wastewater treatment, or food and beverage production, organizations…
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Automation Upgrade Enables Use of Simulation to Transform Production Decision-Making
Automation Upgrades found from Huffman Engineering published in Automation World
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The Quest for Project Efficiency: Alternative Versus Traditional Project Delivery
Alternative project delivery methodologies can lead to better outcomes than the traditional design-bid-build process, with projects being completed 102% faster along with the ability to reduce costly RFI cycles that plague late-stage integrator involvement. System integrators gain critical insight into customer requirements and can leverage their exposure to industry best practices and new technologies when…
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Is Now the Time to Modernize your MES?
“When an MES system can rapidly calculate, verify, prove and archive stringent and ever-changing qualification and validation standards in a fraction of the time it takes a team of people in the document team to do the same job, efficiency alone is a standout measure of improvement.“ Modernization in global manufacturing is drawing major focus…
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Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences
Huffman Engineering has worked within the life sciences industry for over two decades. During this time, regulatory requirements and consumer demands have changed, and Huffman Engineering has maintained a high level of standards during the growth in compliance demands. From troubleshooting support, to turnkey solutions, Huffman Engineering Inc. is able to deliver. Projects Completed Include:
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It’s All in Your Perspective: Three Ways to Improve Your FAT
In the world of Control System Integration FAT stands for Factory Acceptance Test. Some companies may use FDT (Factory Demonstration Test) or a host of other acronyms, but the core underlying principal is a test or series of tests, witnessed by the customer, prior to arriving onsite that the control system will work in the…
