Expanding Digital Service Experience for Projects
Projects constantly face risks which can create production delays, cost over-runs, personnel safety incidences, poor equipment reliability, and decreased quality of work. At Avid, we believe these risks are not acceptable, and entirely preventable. This is why we adopted the use of the E+H Digital Commissioning App! Field Xpert SMT70 with Digital Commissioning App Benefits […]
Secure Backbone for a Beverage Bottler
Avid is currently engaged with one of the largest Beverage Bottling & Distribution companies in the US, having multiple Bottling, Distribution and Automated Warehouse facilities within the Southeast, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic portions of the US. The priority requirements and justification for site modernization were multiple; namely, to provide a standardized, highly available (i.e. resilient, redundant […]
Counting on Avid: A Sole Source Solutions Provider!
A producer of fertilizers and pesticides that sustain crops world-wide is significantly expanding their operations at one of their world-class processing plants. The greenfield expansion will include two processing units, utility modifications, as well as a rail car loadout station. The new facilities involve multiple companies from the United States and Europe. They will […]
How Avid Delivered on the Promise: An SAP Integration Exclusive
Let’s face it – flawless integration of disparate systems is always a goal – but one that is rarely met. Achieving this goal requires choosing a partner that meets distinct project requirements. When a world-class producer of orange juice needed to upgrade its SAP system, they chose Avid Solutions. They chose Avid based on its […]
Saved! Avid Delivers a Robust Disaster Recovery Solution
Customer Profile: A pharmaceutical plant producing anti-infective treatments against serious and often life-threatening infections. Background: The client’s facility experienced a power failure. It started on a weekend resulting in the control systems being unresponsive. Log files showed that the systems did not recover. When one of the three servers would not respond […]
Secure Operation! A Control System with Fail-Safe Backup
Creating and implementing a batch system that operators can run manually if the batch system is unavailableBackground Avid gets a lot of these requests! A producer of specialty chemicals contacted Avid to design and deliver an Emerson Delta V control system. This system needed to provide automated batch processing capabilities. The challenge was to design […]
Failed Data Integrity Audits are Painful. Avid can Help!
Background Our client, a multi-billion-dollar specialty pharmaceutical company, has been providing high-quality products to a large portfolio for over 150 years. They observed a steady decline in production levels and were looking to their historized data to diagnose the issue. However, they quickly realized that they only had 90 days of historized data. This duration […]
Greenfield site for Oncology medicines
Context: Greenfield site for Oncology medicines in a parenteral format supporting commercial and clinical operations Pain: New facility with new staff and new unit operations. Getting production up and running in a timely manner while minimizing the possibilities for human error based on inattention to detail or inexperience with the process. Solution: An integrated platform […]
A Tin Plating System That’s Worth It’s Weight in Gold
Avid Solutions takes an outdated, underperforming electroplating system and turns it into an efficient, state-of-the-art, well-oiled machine that will stand the test of time. Background The client is a full-service fabrication, machining and electroplating operation that has been providing finished components to a wide range of manufacturers since 1986. They were long overdue for an […]
Outcome-Based Engineering Case Study
The Optimization of Evaporators Background Our client was coping with a daunting combination of performance issues with their multiple evaporators: throughput issues, energy costs, and product quality. In response, we completed an Outcome-Based Engineering (OBE) field study of an evaporator and determined several operational improvement opportunities. The OBE study determined that adding instrumentation, a variable […]