Truck loading - safety solved through trusted partnership
Endress+Hauser provides global chemical and plastics distributor with “total turnkey solution”
For Nexeo, traditional methods of managing a project meant contracting several different providers in order to get a job done. Not only was this highly inefficient, this was also proving to be an issue with after-installation support, resulting in inconsistent programming updates. As part of a 2-year Health, Safety, Security and the Environment initiative, Nexeo required an accurate, consistent and repeatable truck loading automation solution that could easily be implemented across 26 sites.
The results
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One single point of contact for all project management needs
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Increased safety of personnel
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Increased productivity and efficiency
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Faster time to market
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Improved product quality resulting in satisfied customers
Doing business with Endress+Hauser is truly a win-win. This allowed us to load trucks more quickly while ensuring the safety of our personnel resulting in faster time to market and efficiency gains.
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Customer challenge
To ensure safe loading of hazardous and expensive products, Nexeo first required accurate and reliable process measurements (flow and level) but also a correctly designed and implemented control system ensuring safe and timely loading of raw goods. Nexeo also needed a solution that could decrease truck loading times while guaranteeing product quality. Implementing this type of initiative across 26 sites was an immense task, therefore streamlining their project management process was necessary.
Our solution
Complete project management including General Contractor role
Embedded on-site engineering
Start-up services and training
Around-the-clock support and troubleshooting
Truck overspill protection (high level instrumentation)
Safe truck mass flow metering skids
Overall network engineering
Rockwell Automation Allen Bradly® CompactLogixTM control system and panel view
Facility wide emergency stop
Integrated scale, pump, grounding and bonding
Truck rack air ventilation system
VPN remote service support
Partnership provides Nexeo with complete project management
Endress+Hauser project managers and engineers managed the entire project, serving as the
General Contractor role and single point of contact. Instead of Nexeo having to hire a Project Manager on their own to manage the job which would have taken time and money, Endress+Hauser stepped in and supported the entire lifecycle and all key components of the project.
Embedded engineering resources
By embedding the necessary Endress+Hauser engineering resources on-site, Nexeo was able to substantially:
Reduce project overhead costs
Speed up the project timeline resulting in faster time to market
Mitigate risks
Increase efficiencies by quickly responding to day-to-day hurdles and adapting to change
Safe truck loading
To ensure best practices for safe loading of expensive, flammable liquids into trucks, Endress+Hauser incorporated safe truck mass flow metering skids and truck overspill protection into Nexeo's loading process to mitigate any associated risks and increase efficiencies. Endress+Hauser fully integrated all scales, pumps, grounding and bounding, and high level instrumentation with the necessary emergency stops, pump shutdown and alarm to safeguard against static discharge or overflow events.
