Instrumentation and control systems play a critical role in monitoring and controlling manufacturing processes and represent a significant investment for process plants. In addition to supporting the efficient operation of the plant, instrumentation is also a crucial aspect of most safety and shutdown systems, so ensuring the reliability and performance of these systems is paramount. Most manufacturing facilities have a large number of diverse instruments, making the implementation of a comprehensive instrument- and calibration-management program a daunting task without the support of best-practice work processes and systems.

Meridium's Calibration Management module enables companies to standardize, manage, and optimize their instrument calibration strategies across the entire enterprise. Instrument technical data can be classified and managed in a standard format, and the overall calibration plan and results can be captured and protected, meeting the compliance requirements of both OSHA 1910 and ISO 9000. Meridium interfaces to Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems, allowing for seamless work-process integration between Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, and Inspection organizations, thus eliminating the need to manually maintain data between multiple systems. Features include:

• Calibration Planning and Scheduling
• Instrument Loop Explorer
• Calibration Event Management
• Analog Calibration
• Analyzer Multi-Component Calibration
• Analyzer Single Component Calibration
  • Discrete Calibration
  • Weight Scale Calibration
• Integration with Handheld Field Calibrators
• Standard Gas Management
• Reference Documents
• User-Definable Calibration Workflow
• Revision History
• Condition Alerts
• Calibration Reports
• Calibration Graphs  
  • Calibration Measurement Graph
  • Calibration Error Graph
  • Calibration Historical Error Trend
  • Calibration Historical Pass/Fail Trend

Meridium's Calibration Management module, you can:

• Ensure that calibration strategies are being implemented and executed in a standardized way corporate-wide.
• Capture and manage all aspects of calibration event data to ensure that your company is meeting compliance requirements.
• Identify and prevent potential instrument problems by evaluating calibration results and managing improvement recommendations.
• Implement best practice work processes that can be used to analyze the effectiveness of the strategies and make improvements as necessary.