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IIoT in Action: QualiCal, a Lime Industry Case Study — Part2
How tecnological & digital suppliers can accelerate customers transformation
(continuation of IIOT in Action: QualiCal, a Lime Industry Case Study — Part1)
MOSAICO is the QualiCal solution that quickly enable new services for corporate users, facilitating the collection of customers informations.
QualiCal is working with Customers, that are in the early stage of digitization, supporting the transformation journey in the near terms, trying to make the Industrial Internet real!
Have a look to some CASE OF STUDY in the LIME core business where improved efficiency and lower cost — that results from more effective process automation — are clear measures of success.
The first QualiCal IIoT workgroup has been focused to improve plant reliability, reducing unplanned downtime.
“How much downtime is ideal? We think Zero sounds good.”
To reach the above challenges, our Customer, moves from a traditional maintenance plant to a pro-active, dynamic and digital workflow, helping to
• Reduce unplanned downtime
• Optimize maintenance costs
Anomalies are detected trough sensors, or investigated by DOWNTIME REPORTs.
Based on the type of anomalies, maintenance TASKs are generated and addressed to the deputed person who can access to all the informations and complete the job successfully.
As results, through ZERO _App, has been possible to
• increase maintenance efficiency
• and, in general, the overall availability of the plant,
o minimizing unplanned downtime occurrences
o and reducing time required to restart the plant after a failure.
The second spotlight, has been addressed to optimize the combustion process inside lime plant.
“How much fuel should I use? Just the bare essential.”
The challenge has been to increase the burning and combustion efficiency,
• Saving fuel
• Reducing thermal losses from the plant
• Minimizing environmental impact
Starting from the assumption that every trace of CO content in waste gas fumes, represent in principle a waste of unburnt fuel, we optimized the process parameters in order to achieve the optimum situation of fuel injection.
ABACO_App creates fuel injection profiles that automatically adjust the burning process in respect of product quality and key process parameters.
The analysis we did, helped to predict and prevent fuel and thermal losses.
Thanks to a better administration of fuel to air ratio, has been saved till to 6000 €/month in terms of fuel saving.
By ABACO injection profiles, the combustion efficiency has been increased up to 2.5 %.
CASE of STUDY — AERO
The latest case of study, investigated the efficiency of the electrical consumption of the installed equipment, because
“Energy saved today is asset for the future.”
We analyzed how to improve electrical power demand by:
• Optimizing the equipment operating conditions,
• increasing their lifespan;
• Predicting failures,
We have implemented AERO_App specifically dedicated to manage, in real-time, the process air supplied with positive displacement blowers,
taking automatically decisions on blower selection and speed settings according to the process requirement, plant conditions, environmental limits and historical data series on performance and maintenance.
The Customer and our team of experts, have performed several tests, cross matching the information collected by AERO.
Improving the equipment operating condition, the air supply efficiency has been increased of 26% that can be translated to 500€/day saving.
DATA SCIENCE
Data science is the art of looking at data and applying scientific principles to figure out how to make heads or tails from that data.
It’s the aggregation of actionable insights and actionable information from data that adds value-enabling companies to quickly reduce risk, generate return on investment, and maximize effectiveness and productivity.
Whether companies need data collection, engineering design analysis, or business model transformation, many are turning to QualiCal Digital’s Services.
