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Guide to Asset Registers for Industrial Maintenance

ATS

Establish Standard Operating procedures (SOPs) for adding and removing assets from the register. Step 4: Regular updates Write SOPs to cover required register updates such as repairs, relocation or decommissioning of assets. (An An out-of-date or incomplete registry is of very little help in asset management.)

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Health Canada grants production and distribution amended to Optimi Health for pharmaceutical manufacturing

Canadian Manufacturing

“From lab to market, Optimi has taken every step necessary to build its competitive position as a global leader in the manufacturing of EU-GMP compliant MDMA in North America, and we’ve done that through operational transparency and investing in smart infrastructure.”.

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Industrial Maintenance Audits: Maximize Asset Reliability

ATS

If an organization wants their maintenance management system certified to the ISO 55001 standard for asset management, they will need both internal and external audits. Is it to measure compliance with defined procedures, or is the goal to determine the effectiveness of the current maintenance strategy?

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Fortifying the Future: Safeguarding OT Security Assets in a Connected World

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

Non-compliance by IoT manufacturers, inadequate network segmentation between IT and OT, public OT network access, and weak identity management further increase vulnerability. Security is compromised by problems such as system-level attacks, lax device management, and inefficient authentication.

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Standard Operating Procedures in Manufacturing

ATS

What are Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in manufacturing? A manufacturing SOP is a set of instructions detailing how to perform a task. Improved quality and consistency: SOPs help prevent errors and reduce variation because every task is done the same way every time. This is where audits come in.

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Change Management in Manufacturing

ATS

It begins with a change request, which could be raised by manufacturing, engineering, quality or maintenance, and ends when the new or updated standard operating procedure (SOP), is adopted. When a change is implemented, this must be done via the SOP to ensure it sticks.