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August 3, 2023
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July 5, 2023
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May 9, 2023
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March 1, 2023
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February 23, 2023
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Measure and analyze

Resolving a flow measurement dysfunction without interrupting production: how a paper mill saved $20K

May 25, 2023
Une usine spécialisée dans la production de papier et de carton s'est récemment retrouvée dans une situation difficile lorsque son débitmètre de 14 pouces pour une application critique de débit de pâte a connu un dysfonctionnement, causant la production à rouler à l’aveugle et risquant de perturber toute la production.
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Valves and regulators

Safety valves: is your pressure system really protected?

May 9, 2023
Safety valves are the last line of defense in protecting process equipment against overpressure. So many unforeseen events can occur in an industrial process: a failure in the cooling system leading to a condenser, for example, or even a power outage affecting a component of the steam system would have serious consequences if a valve did not protect the system from overpressure.
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Plant Management

Planners, do you have time to plan?

May 2, 2023
In my role as a consultant, one comment I often receive never ceases to surprise me. Yet, it comes up no matter what type of organization we diagnose: "I don't have time to do the work associated with my job title".
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Plant Management

Are these common errors undermining your kitting process?

March 29, 2023
Kitting is a method of pre-assembling all the key components into kits, in order to simplify the repair and/or maintenance process of an equipment. It allows technicians and other professionals to have the necessary parts, materials and tools to perform repairs and other services quickly and efficiently, which makes kitting a key element of efficient maintenance planning.
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Preventive Maintenance

Fire Detection Using Infrared Analysis

March 21, 2023
As the economy continues to be uncertain, many manufacturing facilities are forced to be cautious with their spending. As a result, in order to maintain stable production with reduced staff and budgets, they are often tempted to make sacrifices in their maintenance budget, preferring to cure rather than prevent. This is a mistake, however, as it could potentially harm their business in the long run.
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Measure and analyze

Saving $15,000 and avoiding downtime with a self-diagnostic solution

March 6, 2023
For a pulp and paper company, periodically validating the accuracy of their flow meters was becoming an expensive challenge. Disassembling, inspecting, and calibrating each flow meter required a visit from a third party and cost anywhere between $3,000 and $4,000 per case.
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Predictive Maintenance

Savings through continuous vibration monitoring

October 31, 2022
In order to sustain production and meet consumer demand, a sawmill needed to reduce losses due to mechanical breakdowns. Laurentide Controls' technicians and engineers working on this project installed the AMS 6500 Machinery Health Monitor to continuously monitor the health of the most critical equipment.
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Predictive Maintenance

Increasing Efficiency and Reducing Resource Needs with Predictive Maintenance and Process Automation

October 6, 2022
In today's economy, expectations for plants are becoming increasingly high: improve process performance with fewer people, increase reliability with a reduced maintenance budget, and maintain quality despite changing conditions. Process automation can meet these demands by performing tasks efficiently and autonomously with minimal employee intervention. The result is increased business productivity and efficiency.
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Predictive Maintenance

Temperature gun or thermographic camera: How to find your way around

September 20, 2022
Infrared thermography is a thermal measurement process that detects areas of heat on a surface that are invisible to the naked eye. It is an effective tool for predictive maintenance as it can help identify potential problems before they lead to equipment failure.
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Predictive Maintenance

Paper mill transforms facility maintenance management with digitalization

June 7, 2022
The planner of a paper mill was looking to digitize its lubrication routes and make its maintenance strategy more efficient. Previously, the mill had implemented a maintenance solution via complex cards, encompassing lubrication and vibration tasks. They then printed out the generated cards to perform their routes on paper. Effective communication and quality of execution of the tasks was therefore an important issue.
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Predictive Maintenance

A new plant saves costs before it even starts production

May 16, 2022
Our client, a global food brand, was in the final stages of implementing its first plant in Quebec. To get off on the right foot, our client turned to predictive maintenance solutions.
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Predictive Maintenance

Monitoring critical asset avoids 45 days of downtime

March 25, 2022
Our client, a mineral processing plant in Atlantic Canada, wanted to monitor the health of a critical asset, an autoclave agitator, to improve plant uptime.
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Predictive Maintenance

How a steel mill reduced critical asset downtime by 50% by optimizing preventive maintenance and AI

March 16, 2022
Our client, a steel plant, was facing recurrent performance issues on a shear, resulting in significant asset downtime.
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Predictive Maintenance

Quantifying risks to make strategic decisions

October 29, 2021
Our client, a French fry factory, needed to reduce losses due to mechanical breakdowns in order to sustain production and meet consumer demand.
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Preventive Maintenance

Preventive Maintenance: $1.2M cost savings after a single PM iteration

October 29, 2021
Our client, a large-scale mining company facing fierce competition, needed to reduce losses related to mechanical breakdowns in order to remain competitive.
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Packaged Solutions

Weights and Measures: over 100K in savings with a Coriolis solution

September 21, 2021
Our client, a beverage producer, was facing regulatory and logistic challenges when it came to shipping bulk product.
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Working at Laurentide

As globalization makes headlines, a passionate team of professionals focuses on the success of local industries.

June 30, 2021
At Laurentide Controls, this ecosystem is what drives us every day, moved by our purpose to help industry thrive in Eastern Canada. We asked members of our team to tell us what this means for them.
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Plant Management

How to use your planned outage to increase plant productivity

May 5, 2021
Planned outages are a costly for plants: specialized trades and equipment replacements, combined the costs of downtime itself, make for an expensive few days or weeks.
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Predictive Maintenance

Asset Condition Monitoring Prevents Costly Downtime in Pharmaceutical Plant

April 9, 2021
A leading pharmaceutical manufacturing plant on the US East Coast regularly subscribes to Emerson’s Asset Condition Monitoring service to augment their reliability program.
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Plant Management

Planned outages: a comprehensive strategy that saves $1M

March 11, 2021
Our client, a paper mill in Quebec, was experiencing frequent machine breaks that were causing emergency shutdowns. At an average of $8,000 per hour, these incidents were having a major impact on the plant’s productivity: between $300,000 and $500,000 in losses per year. It became evident that to optimize repair timing, detect probable failures and restart correctly, their planned shutdown strategies needed to be revised.
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Predictive Maintenance

$10M savings with IR thermography

February 24, 2021
Our client, a global mining company, had just launched operations at their new facility in Northen Quebec. From the start, the management team wanted to build a culture of reliability and proactive management of assets and equipments.
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Predictive Maintenance

A predictive monitoring program that saves $4.5M

February 23, 2021
Our client, a major mining company, had just put one of its factories back into operation. From the start, managers wanted to instill a culture of reliability and proactive management of assets and equipment.
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Plant Management

How to prosper while short-staffed, without recruiting

February 23, 2021
With intense international competition, growing concerns for the environment and thining margins, the current skilled labour shortage only intensifies a growing list of challenges faced by the Pulp and Paper industry.
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