Instrumentation

WHITE PAPERS AND CASE STUDIES

• Midlantic Urology Associates Introduces Added Convenience For Patients With Rideshare Program

  Midlantic Urology Associates had been employing a single driver for all participant pick-ups. This proved to be inefficient and unsustainable, so they began utilizing taxis. This alternative was costly and unreliable – there had to be a better way. ClinCard’s integration with Lyft has not only improved the experience for patients and study coordinators but has also helped with recruitment as new patients are enrolling in the study as a result of this added convenience.

• Leveraging Rentals For Pneumatic Conveying Applications

  Pneumatic conveying applications are critical to many facilities – when you can’t move material you can’t make or sell your product. Because of a historical lack of availability of specialized rental blowers and compressors for pneumatic conveying, plants often ether accepted the production outage or rented a more readily available 2 stage oil-free rotary screw compressor designed for 90-150 PSIG plant air service that is very inefficient at the reduced pressures needed for pneumatic conveying.

• Camera System Gives Tunneling Machines New Sights

  In this case study, high resolution cameras are mounted in the cutter head of a tunnel boring machine to enable structural analysis and geological documentation of the drilling surface.

• County Drastically Cuts Costs With DIMMINUTOR®

  Fairfield Wastewater Treatment Plant in Butler County, Ohio was having a lot of trouble with their grinders. The plant serves over 42,500 domestic customers, a number of commercial and industrial institutions as well as Mercy Hospital of Fairfield. They treat about five million gallons of wastewater collected in over 175 miles of sewer pipe each day.

• Data Matrix Codes And Tamper-Evident Seals Help Pharmaceutical Company Ensure Quality And Prevent Falsification

  The medium-sized pharmaceuticals company Krewel Meuselbach GmbH manufactures top-quality, affordable pharmaceuticals using state-of-the art technology. Traceability and prevention of product falsification, Krewel Meuselbach uses the compact XS2 MV TE system in a thermoforming line to ensure comprehensive quality control and prevent the falsification of its products. It achieves this through data matrix codes and tamper-evident seals.

• Sanitaire SBR System Boosts Capacity, Reliability Without Building A New Facility

  Jefferson City, the Capitol of Missouri, has operated a sanitary sewage collection system dating back to the 1800s. The generations of infrastructure included a trickling filter treatment plant that first entered service in 1967 and underwent major upgrades involving screening, primary clarification, and secondary treatment over the course of 1969-77.

• Specialty Chemical Company Improves Productivity And Reduces Cost With Aptean Ross ERP

  As a chemical company with plants in the US and abroad, Hammond Group knew that if the company was to grow and maintain its reputation for customer care, it needed to invest in systems that would cut costs from its operations while still allowing it to focus on its customers. They implemented Ross ERP and Pivotal CRM to handle both front and back office needs.

• Connecticut Water Utility Successfully Removes 45% Of Trihalomethanes (THMs) With Quick-Turnaround Clearwell Intervention

  In the past several years, Aquarion Water Company had been monitoring their system’s THM formation and attempting to lower them through treatment and distribution system changes. Aquarion engineers decided that reducing THM formation in the Laurel High Service Clearwell at the Stamford Water Treatment Plant (WTP) would eliminate concerns of elevated THM formation in the distribution system served by the WTP.

• Medical University Finds Solution To Track Participant Remuneration

  Concern ensued across the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) research faculty and staff when they received notice that departments would need to somehow track and sum all their petty cash, Walmart and Target gift cards, VISA cards and checks issued through Accounts Payable (as there was no institutional research policy standardizing a single type of remuneration payment for clinical research participants). A fellow academic medical school recommended ClinCard by Greenphire which ended up being the perfect solution.

• Lockout Pressure Optimization

  Pipeline operators face a constant balancing act of running their pipelines while protecting the environment from oil spills caused by a rupture. A sudden low-pressure event might indicate a pipeline rupture that threatens the environment. To minimize environmental impact, operators set parameters for low-pressure conditions that would cause a hard shutdown, or lockout. Lockouts can last for hours or days, greatly impacting the pipeline’s revenue.

• Flower Mound, Texas Prioritizes Repairs, Prevents Failures, And Reduces Risk With Engineering Assessment

  Like many fast-growing communities, the Town of Flower Mound, Texas lacked detailed information on the true condition of some key aging assets, including underground pipes and water mains.

• Black & Veatch's Field And Workforce Management Transformation

  Black & Veatch’s (B&V) clients include large telecom companies with hundreds, even thousands of technicians who install and repair equipment on a daily basis, to leading satellite companies that provide complex tracking of ship fleets. Due to advancements in connectivity, large infrastructure projects and field teams are becoming highly distributed and B&V wanted to take a proactive approach to ensuring real-time visibility into its workforce. “We want to be proactive about the future of work because this is where things are headed. The more tech savvy our workforce is, the better positioned our workforce is,” said Barbie Bigelow, former CIO at B&V.