CHANGE TO
ELECTRONIC LOGS!
How you can Increase Productivity in your Industry Control Room
By Dr. Don Glass
Let's start with a horror story!
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Something
went horribly wrong yesterday.
Production was down and blood pressures were up.
Maintenance people were rushing around with a wild look in their eyes.
There was a spillage in Area 2. The quality was way below spec and.... no
one seems to know what started it all!
The
production manager barks at you...
"Find out what happened so it won't happen again!"
A quick look at the trends... Ouch! It is not pretty but what started it
all off? You gallop off double time to the control room.
"WE
don't know", the operators say "it wasn't OUR shift!"
Your
eyes fall on a grubby little notebook in the corner of the room... The
ubiquitous Operator Logs.
You are
in luck! The operator on yesterday's shift is a regular Steven King. A bit
difficult to read because of the coffee stains but there it is in black and
white (and brown) - "High pressure spike on main filter. Should be
changed out."
A light
bulb turns on in your mind! So Dr. Watson, it is elementary, the operator
saw it, he noted it just before finishing his shift and no one put two an
two together (let alone saw the entry) to avoid the inevitable sorry tale
of woe!
What do we stand to gain by going
electronic?
Surprisingly,
stories such as the one above are all too common even on supposedly modern
sites where every tag is scrupulously monitored.
Why is
it that some of the most important data..."what the operator saw and
did" is not logged?
So you
say, "Why don't we just get the operator to log the data into the
computer and arrange it so that everyone can have access to it on the
network?"
It
sound too easy, doesn’t it? Well, with a good electronic logging
package it is just that - EASY. But....
- Will people use
it? You bet!
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Will it save
production? Absolutely!
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Will it mean we
can avoid disruptions? Yes Sir!
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Will it mean
everyone will know what the control room is doing? Right!
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So the fiasco in
the story above would have been avoided? Exactly! Both the incoming shift
superintendent and the maintenance manager would have seen the Mr. King's
entry on their screens or in the changeover report and the future would
have been very different!
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Is it expensive? Nope!
In
fact, the moment you put in an electronic logging system, you will suddenly
notice that everyone on site is aware of the pulse of the process and they
are all starting to make informed decisions.
But an
Industrial Operator Log Package is much more than just a replacement for your
existing "hard paper" log. Much, much more.
We put together a quick wish list of
what we would like? Please read on...
If you
are interested in taking the Log Book idea further, have a look at the next
section. It is an easy way to get started.
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