Millstone Medical Outsourcing, a medical device service company in Fall River, MA, recently installed a wireless data acquisition system ZW-001 ZW-003 ZW-005 ZW-006 ZW-007 ZW-008 ZW-RCVR ZW-ROUTER measurement and recording Air Temperature and Relative Humidity ZW-001 ZW-003 ZW-005 ZW-006 ZW-007 ZW-008 ZW-RCVR ZW-ROUTER clocks in at a 150,000 square foot warehouse facility in Memphis, Tennessee. The company offers inspection, packaging, distribution, warehousing, medical devices and implants – with a primary focus in the orthopedic market.
challenge
Due to the sensitivity of these products, personnel need to maintain specific temperature and relative humidity levels in warehouses and facilities at all times.
The company serves multiple clients that require a warehouse temperature of 64 to 74 Fahrenheit with 90% relative humidity.
In the past, the company's Memphis facility relied on a limited number of stand-alone ZW-001 ZW-003 ZW-005 ZW-006 ZW-007 ZW-008 ZW-RCVR ZW-ROUTER loggers to collect data about environmental conditions within the facility engineering staff.
These horses are deployed in quality-critical areas, where engineers will return each month to manually unload data and send it to a computer for analysis. This month's ceremony was time-intensive because the ZW-series loggers were in a limited area and there was no assurance that the environment of the facility as a whole was being properly preserved. While staff can deploy more stand-alone data loggers that can accurately monitor the entire facility, management knows labor involved in unloading the data will make efforts unfeasible.
solution
To overcome these limitations, the company selected a ZW-001 ZW-003 ZW-005 ZW-006 ZW-007 ZW-008 ZW-RCVR ZW-ROUTER wireless data logging system ONSET, a Massachusetts-based supplier of data loggers and weather station. In self-healing mesh networks, syslog and wireless transmission of near real-time data.
To create this wireless monitoring network, the facility's chief engineer, Tim Lucindy, deployed 20 wireless HOBO ZW-003 temperature/relative humidity data nodes within the company's facility. Lucindi spaced nodes 100 feet apart to create a nice grid in a 300 by 500 foot space. Lucindi also deployed additional nodes for redundancy in quality critical areas.
"The nodes provided by the software technology make it easy for us to add and subtract nodes in the system," Lucindi said.
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Wireless loggers are deployed on support beams, mounted on walls, and placed on shelves. Each is powered by an AC adapter and backed up with batteries. Additionally, a low temperature sensor wireless collector is deployed on-premises in the device's 25°F refrigerator.
Temperature and relative humidity readings are recorded and transmitted every five minutes to the system's receiver located in the equipment room. The receiver connects to a dedicated computer via USB.
In addition to providing access to data in a centralized location, the system is configured to notify quality, operations, and engineering management via email and text messages if temperature and relative humidity levels rise or fall within the desired range.
result
Since the wireless data logging system configuration ZW-001 ZW-003 ZW-005 ZW-006 ZW-007 ZW-008 ZW-RCVR ZW-ROUTER, equipment engineers no longer need to spend time manually unloading data from individual independent data loggers. It's a welcome change to their schedule, providing more time to focus on other projects. And, the system's near real-time data collection allows engineering staff to quickly address environmental issues, occurring on a 24/7 basis rather than monthly. This helps improve operational and commercial credibility.
Once a month, engineers are able to generate charts of environmental conditions for management review. Not only do these diagrams provide management with a specific assessment of the environment within the facility, they also serve as a sales tool for securing new customers and helping to provide existing customers with guaranteed environmental conditions. Armed with this invaluable data, company management, prospects, and thought customers are aware that the facility is well monitored and maintained.
More to remember: With Hoboware software, project management generates trend reports. In their report, the indoor temperature was plotted against the external ambient temperature to determine the effect of external temperature on the indoor environment. With this analysis, engineers predict thermal spikes and fully compensate for temperature control ZW-001 ZW-003 ZW-005 ZW-006 ZW-007 ZW-008 ZW-RCVR ZW-ROUTER.
"We're currently monitoring the ceiling," said Lucindi. "With this data ZW-001 ZW-003 ZW-005 ZW-006 ZW-007 ZW-008 ZW-RCVR ZW-ROUTER, we will better determine how to configure shelves close to the ceiling, which will allow us to expand our Product Storage."
