Industrial &
Manufacturing
The industrial and manufacturing segment encompasses the process of converting raw materials into finished goods. Many industrial and manufacturing facilities, including those that produce food, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices must adhere to stringent regulations for safety, sanitation, and product quality. In addition to meeting these standards, facilities need to prioritize efficiency, resilience, and visibility across locations.
Monitoring
Considerations
Industrial Operations
Plumbing & Air Conditioning
Plumbing and air conditioning infrastructure involves large amounts of water and coolant. Even stable environments carry a risk of collapses or leaks, causing flooding and conductive fluid or chemical damage to sensitive equipment in manufacturing facilities.
Controlled Environments
In some manufacturing contexts, such as production floors, technical rooms, server rooms, and reactors, the environment must be carefully controlled to protect the integrity of the product and/or machines. Factors such as temperature, humidity, CO2, and airflow need to be regulated.
Cleanrooms
For other types of manufacturing, such as pharmaceutical and medical device production, plants must meet cleanroom classification standards to ensure sanitation. This comes with stringent airflow monitoring requirements for filtration and particle control.
Continuous Charging
Some manufacturing plants need to run 24 hours a day with continuous equipment charging. This may take place at an autonomous facility or warehouse that operates with minimal onsite supervision and relies on DC battery strings for continuous backup power
Chemical Processing
Chemical Leaks
Chemicals are typically stored in vats and transported between containers for processing. When leaks occur, chemical materials can be depleted quickly. Chemical leakage can also pose hazards to both personnel and equipment in the vicinity.
Hazardous Gas Detection
Hazardous gases may be byproducts of chemical processing. They can cause serious harm to personnel working in manufacturing plants and must be detected as soon as they enter the atmosphere.
Separate DC Power Plants
Chemical plants may involve multiple separate storage and processing locations that are spread across a single campus and utilize DC battery strings for backup power. These units need to be continuously monitored for signs of failure or damage, but working across separate locations can make it difficult to gather and analyze the necessary data.
Battery Monitoring
Warehouses and manufacturing facilities depend on DC battery banks to provide backup power for vital operations, but DC units are prone to unexpected failures.
It takes just one failure to compromise an entire string, and since backup units are only deployed occasionally, technicians may not realize that a failure has occurred until it is too late.
The best way for industrial and manufacturing facilities to safeguard their DC assets is to install a Cellwatch Battery Monitoring system. Through Cellwatch, Parameter automates all stages of the battery monitoring process to ensure power availability. The system is semi-permanently connected to provide real-time visibility by measuring multiple battery conditions and delivering live data, daily notifications, and monthly reporting on critical units.
Benefits include:
- Real-time tracking for critical units
- Reduced risk of unexpected outages
- Streamlined repairs and deferred replacements
- Increased cost savings and maximum battery life
- Tailored solutions for industrial applications
Environmental Monitoring
In industrial and manufacturing facilities, maintaining an optimal environment is pivotal. When atmospheric conditions fall outside of expected parameters, equipment and materials may become damaged, and products lose viability.
Because atmospheric changes can happen suddenly and can’t be detected with the naked eye, an effective and accurate monitoring system is a necessity.
Parameter empowers manufacturing plants and warehouses with visibility into critical aspects of infrastructure. Parameter’s environmental monitoring technology tracks multiple conditions, including temperature, humidity, airflow, CO2, smoke, and more. When a failure is detected, the system immediately sends out an alert indicating the nature and location of the issue.
Benefits include:
- Reliable and accurate threat detection
- Remote monitoring capability for autonomous facilities
- Seamless integration with native BMS
- Enhanced data-driven decision-making
- Wireless, Wi-fi, and wired technology options
Leak Detection
Unmitigated chemical and conductive fluid leaks are a leading cause of disruption in industrial and manufacturing facilities.
Leaks typically start small, but when they go unnoticed, they can escalate quickly to affect multiple areas. By catching leaks early, facilities can minimize downtime and avoid repair and replacement costs.
Parameter helps facilities protect assets and safeguard operations with innovative leak detection solutions. Our technology detects leaks of all sizes as soon as they occur, ensuring technicians have enough time to contain them before they spread.
Benefits include:
- Accuracy of ±2 feet / ±0.5% of cable length with map-applied distance read
- Extensive detection along 10,000 feet of detection cable
- Wireless range up to 1600 feet
- Long-lasting, resettable, and reusable detection cables
- Real-time alerts
Product Lines
Ideal for industrial and manufacturing applications, Parameter’s RLE Leak Detection technology alerts to everything from small spills to major flooding as soon as liquid is detected, providing technicians with plenty of time to resolve the issue before it spreads. Parameter offers leak detection for both conductive fluid and chemical leaks.
Liquid Sensing Cables
Parameter’s conductive fluid sensing cables can be run around the perimeter of a room or in a serpentine pattern under the floor for comprehensive coverage of manufacturing floors and industrial warehouses. For chemical processing applications, our chemical sensing cables are exceptionally reliable and durable, resistant to chemical corrosion, and offer an especially fast reaction time.
Controllers & Spot Detectors
For smaller, more visible areas, Parameter’s simple and cost-effective zone controllers and spot detectors notify personnel as soon as a leak is detected in a specific area. For more complex industrial and manufacturing spaces, our distance-read controllers can identify the precise location of a leak or spill.
Parameter’s RLE Environmental Monitoring product line is designed to help industrial and manufacturing facilities maintain controlled environments by tracking critical factors such as temperature and airflow and alerting to failures. With wired, wireless, and Wi-Fi platforms available, our comprehensive systems ensure streamlined integration with user-friendly interfaces.
WiNG Monitoring
With Parameter’s revolutionary WiNG wireless platform, a complete system of sensors, gateway manager, and range extenders monitors your facility for changes in temperature, humidity, conductive fluid leaks, and dew points, allowing businesses to fine-tune manufacturing environments to meet efficiency goals, maintain equipment performance, and optimize operations. There are no recurring fees, and once you’ve purchased the equipment, it’s yours for life.
Wi-Fi Sensors
Parameter’s Wi-Fi sensors enable you to leverage existing Wi-Fi networks to consistently and accurately monitor conditions such as temperature, humidity, CO2, and leaks. Our Wi-Fi sensors are compatible with WiNG-MGR or BMS systems.
Wired Facility Monitoring & Sensors
For operations that require the utmost security, Parameter simplifies closed-circuit monitoring through the wired Facility Monitoring System (FMS), which monitors sensitive facilities, temperature, and equipment status. To expand FMS functionality, Parameter offers wired sensors for temperature, humidity, motion, door status, smoke, power failures, and power currents.
Cellwatch Frontier is Parameter’s tailored battery monitoring system for industrial and manufacturing companies with DC systems and autonomous facilities. By testing critical DC units daily and reporting on performance, the Cellwatch Frontier platform reduces unexpected outages and strengthens continuous power availability.
Remote Monitoring
Some continuous charging plants may need to run autonomously with minimal in-person supervision, but they still need to be monitored 24/7. Cellwatch Frontier features remote monitoring capabilities to limit onsite visits while ensuring smooth and secure operations.
Preemptive Maintenance
By providing real-time visibility into battery performance, Cellwatch Frontier streamlines preemptive maintenance to increase backup power reliability, achieve cost savings, and maximize useful battery life.
For chemical processing plants and other facilities with multiple separate buildings, Parameter’s Cellwatch Central provides a streamlined battery monitoring platform. Cellwatch Central is optimized for large organizations with multiple installation sites and complex data analysis needs.
Real-Time Visibility
Cellwatch Central is semi-permanently connected to deliver continuous passive monitoring that tracks performance proactively, allowing personnel to repair or replace battery units efficiently before they need to be deployed.
Complex Data Consolidation
By collecting data from multiple sites and consolidating it into a single system, Cellwatch Central enables facilities to analyze battery performance across over 50,000 jars and manage battery types, installation data, and maintenance events via a unified system.
Discover Advanced Industrial & Manufacturing Monitoring Solutions From Parameter
Not only can the right monitoring system alert to failures, but it can also enable incident prevention, enhance efficiency, increase cost savings, and deliver peace of mind.
Contact Parameter to discover flexible monitoring solutions for industrial and manufacturing infrastructure that check all these boxes.