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Energy costs impact your company’s bottom-line and managing your energy as a strategic resource requires active energy management. Malisko can help you know how much electricity you’re using, what your major loads are, and which ones contribute to demand charges. We can also help measure the power quality in your plants and correct problems that shorten equipment life and drive down company profits.
No one pays much attention to the quality or the consumption of power when energy prices are relatively low. No one can directly touch it or feel it; yet power quality and the amount of consumption can have an impressionable impact on a manufacturing facility’s cost of operating. Electrical power quality can directly affect motor life. Opportunities to reduce energy consumption, hence lowering expenses, most likely exist in various areas of the manufacturing plant; especially when energy is defined as WAGES; Water, Air, Gas, Electricity, Steam. But many times plant managers don’t know where these opportunities exist in their plants to both extend equipment life and reduce the cost of energy consumption because little or no on-line, continuous monitoring exists in their facility. Malisko can help deploy systems specifically designed to monitor power quality and energy consumption; systems that assist with identifying the root cause of issues, point of use, surges and thus help point management in the direction of improvements. Load profiling, cost allocation, billing and sub-billing and demand management can directly benefit from PQ&EM.

Malisko provides services and equipment for effective electrical power quality and energy (WAGES) monitoring and reporting; including and not limited to:

  • Power Monitors for quality, harmonics, waveforms, and flicker by voltage fluctuations, sub-cycle transients, and harmonics
  • Dynamic electrical power sag correction and notification
  • Power conditioning to improve true power factor, reduce harmonic distortion, reduce voltage notching
  • Flow, pressure, temperature meters for water, air, gas, and steam
  • Web-enabled tools to capture, analyze, store, correlate, manage, and share WAGES to energy data to:
  • Quantify then optimize WAGES energy consumption
  • Display current and historical power quality and WAGES consumption
  • Manage power quality
  • Correlate WAGES energy usage
  • Determine cost to production centers
  • Negotiate energy rates

Malisko Engineering helps Clients with the data and information it needs to make intelligent decisions that drive manufacturing efficiency and lowers operating costs.

Energy costs impact your company’s bottom-line and managing your energy as a strategic resource requires active energy management. Malisko can help you know how much electricity you’re using, what your major loads are, and which ones contribute to demand charges. We can also help measure the power quality in your plants and correct problems that shorten equipment life and drive down company profits.

No one pays much attention to the quality or the consumption of power when energy prices are relatively low. No one can directly touch it or feel it; yet power quality and the amount of consumption can have an impressionable impact on a manufacturing facility’s cost of operating. Electrical power quality can directly affect motor life. Opportunities to reduce energy consumption, hence lowering expenses, most likely exist in various areas of the manufacturing plant; especially when energy is defined as WAGES; Water, Air, Gas, Electricity, Steam. But many times plant managers don’t know where these opportunities exist in their plants to both extend equipment life and reduce the cost of energy consumption because little or no on-line, continuous monitoring exists in their facility. Malisko can help deploy systems specifically designed to monitor power quality and energy consumption; systems that assist with identifying the root cause of issues, point of use, surges and thus help point management in the direction of improvements. Load profiling, cost allocation, billing and sub-billing and demand management can directly benefit from PQ&EM.

Malisko provides services and equipment for effective electrical power quality and energy (WAGES) monitoring and reporting; including and not limited to:

  • Power Monitors for quality, harmonics, waveforms, and flicker by voltage fluctuations, sub-cycle transients, and harmonics
  • Dynamic electrical power sag correction and notification
  • Power conditioning to improve true power factor, reduce harmonic distortion, reduce voltage notching
  • Flow, pressure, temperature meters for water, air, gas, and steam
  • Web-enabled tools to capture, analyze, store, correlate, manage, and share WAGES to energy data to:
  • Quantify then optimize WAGES energy consumption
  • Display current and historical power quality and WAGES consumption
  • Manage power quality
  • Correlate WAGES energy usage
  • Determine cost to production centers
  • Negotiate energy rates

Malisko Engineering helps Clients with the data and information it needs to make intelligent decisions that drive manufacturing efficiency and lowers operating costs.

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Our Approach

No two plants are the same. No two production processes are either. We deliver an automated production process that works for you. And it will work as perfectly as physically possible. Whether you’ve already implemented some automation, just finished an OEE review, or are starting from the beginning, we’ll provide the service you need. We can provide a business justification for process automation, design your automated system, or implement a system that’s already been designed. We can do it all and jump in at any point during the process.

Our approach to process engineering and automation has delivered results for over 20 years. It has allowed us to provide our clients with consistent, efficient production, and measurable ROI. How do we do it?

Site Assessment
Before we can design your new system and implement automation solutions that save you money and improve efficiency, we have to understand your challenges. To achieve this, we can engage with you to perform a site assessment. We listen to your operators, maintenance staff, engineers and operations personnel to fully understand your process, how your business operates, the problems you want to solve, and what success means to you. Most important, we take the time to understand the best ways to collaborate with your in-house engineers throughout the automation process as we become familiar with your facility and systems that make it run.

Our site assessment follows a tried and true process and is the first step in implementing an automation solution. During each site assessment, we will :

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Front-End Engineering Design (FEED)
Successful engineering has to align everyday production with the big picture. Each processing unit and work cell must come together with your automation system to form not only an efficient production process but also one that matches your business goals and realities. When we present an automation solution to you, we make sure it matches your budget, your timeline, your current production realities, and your goals all while minimizing risk.

Our Front End Engineering Design (FEED) sets the foundation for a successful project accomplished on time, on budget and in a way that fits your in-house team.

If the needs of your business, plant, and production line change over time, our systems come ready to change along with them. And if you need, we’ll even tweak the system design to fit the skill sets of your support team. We believe the best systems change for you. It shouldn’t be the other way around.

Once the FEED is completed, you will receive:

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Detailed Engineering and Design
In our detailed engineering and design service, we transform the conceptual into the final design. We use all the knowledge we gain from the automation solutions site assessment and Front End Engineering Design (FEED) to minimize your risk, get you running quickly, and align our work with your business realities. Here we will also flush out project risks, planning for them by nailing down a realistic project budget, execution plan and timeline.

Malisko both designs your automation system and implements it. Our detailed engineering and design service picks up right after our FEED services leave off, and our system integration execution pick up right after our detailed engineering and design. We can handle the complete package: specification, design, procurement, development, on-site execution, troubleshooting and support of the control, network, security and MES layers.

During this phase we can provide you with:

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Project Execution
After we’ve completed our thorough automation solutions site assessment, Front End Engineering Design and Detailed Engineering Design, we have the information we need to document, code and integrate your automated system. We keep in mind your business goals. We factor in the strengths and limitations of your team, and we prioritize your most important objectives.

We design your system on a foundation of understanding so that we can rapidly implement it with absolute precision. We program each function in your system and set up an intuitive Human Machine Interface (HMI) and reporting that allows your team to adopt your system efficiently. We outfit your system with the reporting you need to stay on top of your production. Prior to installation, we run your system through several rounds of intensive testing in a simulated environment to make sure it works. Once we have programmed your machines, set up your HMI, created a useful reporting program and tested the functionality and performance of your system, it is time to install your system in your facility. When on-site system installation is complete our Team again extensively tests the operation, performance and functionality of the new system holistically from the field devices through to reporting.

During this phase we can provide you with:

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Validation
Computer System Validation (CSV) is a must in FDA regulated industries. We design and implement your system to deliver consistent, efficient production that also meets CSV for FDA. And we prove it too. If you operate in a regulated industry, we take care of the paperwork related to CSV and reduce your Regulatory risk. We can provide a Validation Master Plan (VMP) and use it to guide our work. We document requirement specs, design specs, functional specs, test plans, installation and operational protocols, trace matrices, and summary reports. We execute the protocols as well. We assist with keeping your records up-to-date via change control and help keep your system in compliance. Minimizing risk is ingrained in our company because we are committed to delivering you ROI.

During this phase we can provide you with:

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Post Project Support
If any troubles emerge with your system, we have you covered; whether it is warranty or support under a formal service contract. When you work with Malisko Engineering, you don’t just get a system, you get a whole team to support it. If you have a full maintenance and system support staff on-hand, we will provide assistance to fill the cracks. As much as practical, we can help your team be properly equipped to maintain and troubleshoot your process and automation system. If you need full support services, we are available 24-7 to make sure your system works.

During this phase we can provide you with:

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