Brian Fenn
Brian Fenn is vice president of operations, Avanceon
Articles
Four analytics areas for manufacturers to emphasize
Operational improvement can be met by digging into each step of the equipment's timing, accuracy and causes of process step disruption by analyzing the raw data.
The importance of digital transformation support
Many manufacturing facilities are taking on digital transformation initiatives, and long-term maintenance and support needs to be prioritized.
PID loop control tuning advice
Brian Fenn from Avanceon offers advice on proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control loop tuning using examples from a recent project at a food and beverage facility, explaining how operations improved with machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). See video.
Getting the most value from a facility’s data
Companies are turning to their information technology (IT) departments to leverage and gain insights on the large amounts of data being generated.
Understanding PID tuning
Proportional-integral-derivative (PID) tuning can be challenging to learn, but the experience gained can serve engineers well in other areas. See six things to do when a PID loop underperforms.
Using mobile devices for communication, data collection
Mobile devices like Raspberry Pi are an inexpensive alternative for controllers in the manufacturing space and can be useful for particular input/output (I/O) applications.
Benefits of using UML in agile development
Unified modeling language (UML) diagrams are designed to help clarify project requirements at the front end of agile development by providing a visual understanding of how a project should look and function.