Monitoring System To Handle Process Optimization

In the highly competitive production markets, success is no longer defined by creating a product. To succeed, a company must be able to produce high-quality goods using processes that are as safe, efficient and cost-effective. This translates into an ever-growing need for accurate monitoring systems to help analyze critical production data.

Micropack III Data Loggers

The DataTrace Micropack III Data Logger family offers advanced NIST-traceable devices for recording and analyzing temperature, pressure, humidity and more. Each device is carefully designed to ensure the highest gain in productivity.

Unlike other devices, DataTrace logging devices are small enough to fit directly inside production equipment, ensuring the highest possible accuracy. The devices are wireless, operate at low voltage, and are durable to withstand extreme temperatures and conditions.

The various models of DataTrace Micropack III Temperature Data Loggers provide accurate readings over a wide range of temperatures, from subzero environments to high-temperature processes, such as pasteurization and sterilization.

Humidity

For processes that are sensitive to humidity, minor changes in relative humidity have dramatic effects on production, storage and shipping, impacting time, quality and cost. In other words, precise humidity data is an absolute must.

The DataTrace Micropack III Humidity Data Logger provides unparalleled process monitoring across the full humidity range, from 0 to 100 percent at temperatures from 10°C (50°F) to 85°C (185°F).

Options

In order to offer the same level of accuracy for all production monitoring requirements, Mesa Laboratories also offers the DataTrace Micropack III 4-20 mA Data Logger, which can be used to record just about any parameter without disturbing loop continuity. Once the appropriate connection is installed in a standard 4-20 mA circuit, the data logger can quickly record and output data.

Software

All of the DataTrace Data Logging devices work in conjunction with a personal computer interface system. The DataTrace software — which works with Windows 2000 or Windows XP — is easy to install and requires little training.

The software can be used with any number and combination of DataTrace Data Logger models and configurations. With a simple, intuitive program at a single PC workstation, users can log and analyze data for multiple process parameters simultaneously.

The software is brimming with time saving ease-of-use features such as keyboard shortcuts, intuitive screens and batch functions. The software integrates smart security and is fully compliant with FDA 21CFR Part 11 requirements, including data encryption, electronic signatures, enhanced password protection, and administrative security options. The battery life of each logging device is displayed during device setup so it can be checked before critical processes are initiated.

Reports

Data from any combination of DataTrace devices can be consolidated, processed and compared to yield reports more useful than those offered by fragmented monitoring systems. Process phase reports can be easily created with up to ten data logger profiles per page.

Only with DataTrace can varied data logging devices be synchronized to the same clock and linked to a single software solution capable of analyzing multiple process parameters and creating customized reports. Lab notes for data reports can be created automatically. Events such as field calibrations and Data Logger battery changes are automatically incorporated into the audit trail.

Mesa Laboratories, Inc. manufactures and sells a variety of test instruments used by health care providers and manufacturing companies world wide. Call (800) 525-1215 or visit www.mesalabs.com for additional information.

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