Veriteq/Vaisala Continuous Monitoring White Paper

Copies of this no-cost white paper “Compliance, Risk and Cost of Ownership Comparisons for Clean Room Continuous Monitoring Essential to High Tech Materials and Products Manufacture—Wired, Wireless and Standalone Monitoring Systems” can be obtained by writing to ken.appel@vaisala.com.

Six different modalities for continuous monitoring used in manufacturing and processing clean room environments —chart recorders, standalone data loggers, wired LAN networks with UPS backups, wired LAN networks using Power over Ethernet; WiFi; and Wireless Mesh—are systematically explained and compared in terms of costs of ownership and risks of non-compliance with customers’ quality specifications.

Ken Appel, Manager of Regulated Industries for Veriteq, a Vaisala company, and author of the white paper explains that he wrote it to address the commonly overlooked sources of human error inherent in various monitoring modalities and to provide a systematic way for quality managers to weigh the pros and cons of different approaches to continuous monitoring.  Mr. Appel says, “Whether you choose one method over the other or a combination, you will have to decide what makes the most sense in your organization.  There is no one solution that fits every situation.  Always though, a concern is to address the level of risk you can afford, and to know what these risks are.  Understandably, these decisions do not occur in a vacuum.  Physical plant layout, existing IT infrastructure, support resources and management buy-in to name a few, will likely influence your path.”    

To obtain a copy of the white paper write to ken.appel@vaisala.com.  For a preview of the white paper, go to www.veriteq.com/cost-ownership-tech/