Application Note

3 Fluke Corporation Yuengling brews up a winning maintenance approach
Calibration times 250
The brewery’s 100 large elec-
tric motors aren’t all Friedman
focuses on, of course. Process
control at the plant depends
on the accuracy of some 250
instruments. “Instrument cali-
brations, we’re proactive about
that, instead of waiting until
the instrument is way off—it’s
too late at that point,” Friedman
said.
“We use the Fluke 744 Docu-
menting Process Calibrator. That
is just a great, great tool that I
use extensively,” he said. “It will
hook up to a Rosemount or any
instrument that is Hart-compati-
ble, that communicates via Hart,
which is an instrument proto-
col. You can view the device’s
parameters, change the device’s
parameters. Some devices have
a self-diagnostic that you can
check the electronic circuitry
with, all through this inter-
face. You actually see what the
instrument is reading, if it’s
temperature or pressure.
“From a calibration standpoint
we isolate the instrument from
the plant process and hook a
known constant up to it, like a
known pressure. I have a Fluke
700PTP-1 Pneumatic Test Pump.
So I’ll pump that up to say 100
psi or 20 psi and make sure the
instrument is reading exactly
that. If not, I have to make some
adjustments.”
Friedman also watches over
the plant’s extensive industrial
Ethernet network, using Fluke
Networks test instruments to
ensure cables and other net-
work elements meet industrial
requirements for quality and
reliability.
This label spells trouble
A labeling machine is a complex
device, and trouble can be hard
to track down. “We were having
problems with the labeler and
it was hard to pinpoint. It was
just sporadic problems,” Fried-
man said. “I just took the Fluke
imager out there and shot
underneath, where the rotating
parts were. It stuck out at me
like a sore thumb: the gearbox
was over 200 degrees,” he said.
Here comes Yuengling! Adding
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Carbon, Pennsylvania, has
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Photo courtesy of Yuengling
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What’s in your toolbox? Yuengling Tampa Brewery
Fluke tool Uses
Fluke thermal imager Detecting possible problems in motors and
mechanical equipment (such as an overheated
motor on a spent grain pump)
Checking liquid levels in tanks in the brewery
Fluke 810 Vibration Tester Identifying bearing problems in rotating equip-
ment, such as blower motors and pumps
Investigating possible problems detected with the
thermal imager
Fluke 1735 Three-Phase
Power Logger
Comparing current draw against rotational speed
and output pressure on positive displacement
pumps to help verify bearing problems detected
with a Fluke 810 Vibration Tester
Fluke 9040 Phase Rotation
Indicator
Verifying correct connections in three-phase
systems
Fluke 744 Documenting
Process Calibrator
Verifying the performance of temperature and
pressure measurement instruments
Viewing and changing device parameters in
HART-compatible instruments
Fluke 707 Loop Calibrator Verifying that analog PLC cards are reading signals
and working properly
Fluke 700PTP-1 Pneumatic
Test Pump
Delivering air at known pressure to calibrate
instruments and sensors
Fluke 322 Clamp Meter Checking current draw and power consumption
Fluke 771 Milliamp Process
Clamp Meter
Checking instrument and control signals without
breaking the circuit or interrupting the process
Fluke i3000s Flex AC Current
Clamp
Measuring currents of up to 1,500 amps through
any leg of a substation
Fluke Networks test tools Testing and repairing the Ethernet network that
links 60 programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in
the brewery
“The gearbox was full of water,
not lubricant. The seals on the
gearbox went, so water was able
to penetrate. We changed the
gearbox out and all was fine.
“We use Fluke tools, they help
us out a lot,” Friedman added.
“They’re good quality tools and
they help us solve problems and
that’s the bottom line.”
Waiter, another round of
Yuengling lagers!