Six steps toward eliminating obsolete controls equipment

摘要

Most people have a least one control panel that's like a recurring nightmare. Each time it's opened, something breaks, so naturally don't open it! Don't look at it or even breathe around it! That tends to be the situation with a lot of manufacturing facilities, but there is a big problem with that mindset: It won't work forever. People don't drive cars from 1985 every day and expect them to keep on chugging along forever; the same goes with the equipment vital to manufacturing facilities. Well-planned hardware obsolescence projects can ultimately prevent unplanned downtime and spending, as well as conquer the outdated equipment plaguing a plant.