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Photo: Metso Automation PULP CENTER The integration of IT with industrial machines and equipment is generating new service business – namely remote monitoring – for suppliers of equipment and software. A case in point is the Pulp Center, a remote monitoring centre operating in the Tampere unit of Metso Automation. From the Pulp Center, every single process can be monitored in pulp mills anywhere in the world. Metso Automation is one of the world’s leading suppliers of automation systems for the process industry and has been developing remote monitoring for pulp mills since the beginning of the 1990s. “Our remote monitoring is based on the optimized controls we’ve developed. These are applications that fi ne-tune pulp making and all the mill’s processes to meet the customer’s production, quality, energy Photo: Metso MATA HARI, the fi rst black box Mata Hari, the world’s first black box from the 1940s. The equipment in all passenger aircraft today includes a black box that records events and conversations in the cockpit during flight. The world’s first black box was made in Tampere in 1942. The device was developed to record events during test flights by Veijo Hietala, a graduate engineer working in what was then the State Aircraft Factory’s meter repair shop. He built the device in order to acquire information on the behaviour of aircraft destroyed during test flights and to have a means of finding out the reason even if the pilot had been killed. The device, which air force test pilots named Mata Hari, used a light-sensitive paper to record data on the aircraft’s speed, flying altitude, ascending velocity, G-force, outside temperature, engine speed, supercharging pressure, cylinder 12 Tampere Business • Science • Life
The Pulp Center has the same operation monitors as the customer at the pulp mill. Process information arrives via data connections to a server at the Pulp Center where it is gathered for analysis. Manager of Specialist Services Jukka Puhakka (front) and Application Specialist Timo Laurila assess some of the received data. consumption and emission targets,” explains Jukka Puhakka, Manager, Specialist Services Pulp Mill Automation Solutions, from Metso Automation. Many other automation suppliers now offer optimizing controls. However, Metso Automation has taken the service a step further by offering development contracts for its applications. “The idea of the development contracts is to remotely monitor the production process in real time and react to changes quickly – preferably in an anticipatory manner so that the customer would be saved from costly production failures and shutdowns,” Puhakka says. Process data stored “During any process, changes always take place in the equipment and raw materials, reducing the performance of optimized controls. The development contract is an agreement concerning the maintenance of the optimized controls’ performance. This is implemented by gathering process information from the facility and transferring it via data connections to the Pulp Center for analysis and possible further measures,” Puhakka explains. Monitoring isn’t carried out only at the Pulp Center through data networks; it is also conducted close to customers in local branches where Metso’s application experts are at work. They are responsible for the practical measures required by the development contract and visit mills regularly. Should a problem arise, notifi cation is sent via mobile phone, for example, so that problem-solving can begin immediately. Through the Pulp Center, a production facility can be contacted from any location worldwide. In addition to Tampere, Metso Automation also has remote monitoring centres in Atlanta in the US and Sorocaba, Brazil. Remote monitoring is partnership “Another reason why the Pulp Center is a valuable link to us is that the process data gathered through the development contract can be utilized in product development with the customer. In the long term, all parties benefi t,” Puhakka says. “It can take up to a year to create optimizing controls, and during this time we gain an in-depth knowledge of the customer’s production process. A development contract goes even further than that: it is in fact an agreement of partnership in which Metso and the customer company share a common goal of achieving a high-quality and productive process.” Metso Automaton has delivered more than a hundred optimizing controls to the pulp industry, more than half of which have been delivered to Finnish pulp manufacturers. The development contracts amount to 30 and involve production facilities run by Metsä-Botnia, Stora Enso and UPM Kymmene, among others. In Germany, the causticizing process of ZPR Rosenthal is also remotely monitored by Metso. In addition to Metso Automation, the parent company Metso Corporation comprises the world’s largest supplier of paper manufacturing lines, Metso Paper, and the market leader in rock and mineral crushers, Metso Minerals. They, too, are increasingly striving to offer lifecycle services. Metso Paper has Paper Center remote monitoring centres in Jyväskylä, Järvenpää and Pori. “All of Metso Corporation’s remote monitoring centres are networked and expertise is transferred from one centre to another,” Puhakka explains. temperature and, when needed, one additional value. About a dozen devices were constructed, one of which is kept safe in the Central Finland Aviation Museum in Jyväskylä. The rights to Mata Hari were sold to France after the Second World War. In return, the factory gained the necessary foreign currency to acquire desperately needed machine tools. There is no knowledge about how the French buyer used or further developed the device. After the war the State Aircraft Factory was incorporated as part of Valmet Oy. The company’s aircraft manufacturing traditions continue to this day at Patria Aviation in Jämsä, where parts are manufactured for Airbus aircraft, among others. The factory’s meter repair shop grew into the factory’s precision mechanical department, later the supplier of automation systems for the paper and process industries, Metso Automation. Veijo Hietala’s career in the company lasted close to four decades, during which time he produced many other significant inventions. Tampere Business • Science • Life 13
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