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Experitec and AspenTech Sign Implementation Service Provider Agreement

Experitec and AspenTech announce Experitec’s designation as an Implementation Service Provider (ISP). As an ISP, Experitec has joined a select community of companies uniquely positioned to help customers realize the many benefits of AspenTech’s software solutions. Experitec will support Aspen InfoPlus.21®, Aspen Mtell®, and Aspen Batch APC™, as well as various AspenTech DataWorks solutions.

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Steam Turbine Failure Drives Predictive Maintenance for This Scallon Controls Customer

This Pulp & Paper mill experienced a catastrophic turbine failure on one of its most critical machines—responsible for manufacturing specialty paper and representing about 20% of the mill’s capacity. Thanks to an existing relationship with Scallon Controls, an ‘all hands on deck’ response enabled the customer to take advantage of newer technology, resulting in increased safety, predictive analytics, and improved operational certainty.

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Comprehensive Valve Services From Control Associates Caribe

Control Associates Caribe is the local factory-authorized representative for Emerson’s global network of valve, regulator, and actuator service capabilities throughout the Northern Caribbean region. Their factory-trained and certified personnel offer a broad range of onsite maintenance and repair services—where and when needed.

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Reduce CO2 Emissions, Save Steam Generation Costs, & Improve Performance With Experitec

Protect and extend the life of your steam system components, prevent unplanned shutdowns, and reduce emissions with Experitec’s engineering solutions, application expertise, product sizing/selection tools, and more. See how Experitec’s customers save steam generation costs and significantly reduce emissions with their portfolio of valves, regulators, and related services.

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NCCPAP Releases September 2023 Tax Update

NCCPAP has released its monthly Tax Update. Highlighted topics of this month’s report include IRS Best Practices in the event of a tax practitioner’s death, the IRS’s commitment to service and taxpayer communication, new SB/SE leadership, and more.

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Historian Migration Made Easy With ECI

With the evolution from data storage to industrial data management platforms, ECI is supporting forward-thinking manufacturers with a variety of professional services to support data integration, archiving, asset modeling, visualization, and analysis. ECI can implement and support Aspen InfoPlus.21® (IP.21)—one of the industry’s leading industrial process data historians and real-time application platforms for batch and time-series data.

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MES Implementation Maintains Chain of Identity for Control Associates’ Customer

In Cell/Gene Therapy, the uniqueness of each batch requires it to be adjusted for every patient’s starting material. That’s where MES comes in: MES maintains control over a complex manual process; MES automatically tracks materials usage to an individual patient lot and maintains identity of the lot; and MES recipes help accommodate varied growth timelines for varying starting material.

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Maintenance & Reliability Team Up for Total Asset Management Program With Experitec

This Midwest refinery had always wanted to harness the power of its smart instrumentation installed base. Even though Facility Operations could benefit from spending less time reacting to failures and assigning more resources to predict them, the necessary network additions were viewed as speculative and cost prohibitive.

Experitec introduced the concept of TAM to normalize the principles of equipment health and performance monitoring across all types of assets in the facility, including those top tier critical valves responsible for production losses.

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Meet Dave Gonzales, QA & Safety Manager at Scallon Controls

With over 23 years of experience with valves and instrumentation, Dave Gonzales is well-suited to his role as Manager of Quality Assurance and Safety Programs. As you would expect, he writes safety manuals and procedures, but most importantly, he implements programs that ensure Scallon Controls adheres to both industry and customer requirements. In addition to his day-to-day responsibilities, he is relied upon as a mentor and leader—always ‘on call’ to provide technical assistance for Scallon Controls technicians and solve problems for customers.

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Improve OEE and Meet or Exceed Your Production KPIs With a Reliability Asset From ECI

An audit is the fastest path to making an impact. With a small investment in time and resources, you can be on the path to faster time to production, higher utilization rates, and lower operating costs. ECI’s Reliability Assessment process is a quick, yet thorough, evaluation of your maintenance and reliability program. Through interviews with key personnel, analysis of the various processes in place, and available data & tools, their experts compare your current practices against proprietary performance data & world class standards—culminating in a viable action plan presented to your stakeholders.

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