CHEMICALS RESULTS • 50% reduction in number of manhours spent on proactive maintenance. • Saved thousands of hours in commissioning time using Wireless Mobile Worker application. • Decreased downtime due to valve failures. APPLICATION Key devices used in mill operations at PotashCorp’s New Brunswick division are monitored to ensure potential problems are identified early and unexpected shutdowns are avoided. CUSTOMER PotashCorp is the world’s largest fertilizer company by capacity. The New Brunswick facility is one of the company’s six potash mines in Canada. CHALLENGE The nine person instrumentation team at PotashCorp’s New Brunswick (NB) division had responsibility for managing 2000 input/output (I/O) points in 2012. In preparation for a 4400 I/O point expansion, they had to

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