Yes, You Can Save Tons of Money in Your CIP Process

 If you’re in the food and beverage or life sciences industries, it’s time to revisit an important announcement that you may have missed in the runup to the holidays – a new software analytics system, the Clean-in-Place (CIP) Utilities & Automated Reporting Analytics package, from Emerson that automates utilities monitoring and reporting for clean-in-place applications. If your plant does CIP, you know that it represents a backwater that has been historically an under-analyzed segment of the technology. This is a problem since CIP typically represents 30% of utility costs for manufacturers. They also lose time in changeovers and spend between $20,000 and $40,000 in labor costs for manual reporting. In today’s cost-sensitive environment, being able to analyze and optimize consumption of energy, water and other resources, as well as enhance efficiency are the direct paths to increased profitability.

If you’ve ever thought of your CIP as an “it is what it is” segment of your manufacturing process, think again. And check out this announcement that may have slipped by.