Cross-Directional Actuator Health Assessment

Identify opportunities to improve actuator performance

Benefits

Better understanding of how to improve cross-directional control performance
Insight and instruction into cross-directional actuator service methodologies
Basis to improve overall production, process speed and product quality

Features

Assessment that includes findings on multiple actuator data points
Recommendations for best cross-directional actuator service practices
Report and action plan to enable best practices to keep actuators at peak performance

Overview

Scope

Report

Overview

Cross-directional actuator health contributes greatly to the performance of your Quality Control System and the overall productivity of your process. Maintaining the mechanical, electrical, software and application properties of modern cross-directional actuator control packages is important, because poorly performing actuators can reduce saleable production, increase costs and negatively affect customer satisfaction.

Signs for needing an Actuator Health Assessment include:

Pulp consumption rates vary greatly
Product weight per reel is variable
Moisture levels are unpredictable
Caliper per reel is uneven
Energy use is increasing
Adjustments to the process do not deliver expected outcomes

If you are experiencing any of these issues, there might be a problem with your actuators.

Like all of ABB’s services, this service will help you focus on your core business of making world-class, high-quality paper, while managing the cost of production and increasing profit.

Scope

ABB’s CD Actuator Health Assessment focuses on the core practices required to keep actuators performing as they did when they were new, and helps develop service practices that identify early warning signs for potential issues.

Supported by the global knowledge resources of ABB, and executed by certified ABB technicians, the ABB CD Actuator Health Assessment includes inspection and testing of:

Mechanical condition and alignment of actuators
Interlocks and other electrical aspects of actuator packages
Supporting hardware (i.e. compressors, blowers, power supplies, etc.)
Environmental installation and application
Software setup and installed software updates
Control setup and actuator tuning using ABB’s Transition Control Tracking software

Report

After completing the assessment, a report is generated with findings on each activity that includes a process impact study to establish a control range baseline, as well as recommendations to improve and maintain CD actuators. Recommendations can include:

Changes to service practices
Visualization techniques to track actuator performance
Reports and recommendations to improve mechanical condition

These recommendations help customers maintain actuators at peak performance. Should problems arise, this information helps customers decouple process anomalies from actuator performance decay. In this way, the root cause of issues can be identified and addressed so performance can continue as designed and planned.

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