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E Tech Group’s Life Sciences East Division is CSIA Certified for the Eighth Consecutive Time 

E Tech Group is part of an elite group of system integrators achieving the highest level of certification in the Control System Integrator Association’s Certification program and the first to pass its eighth consecutive certification audit as required every three years.   Seabrook, NH – October 5, 2021 – E Tech Group, a leading 3-decades-old control system integrator of custom industrial automation and IT solutions with 400+ engineers across the country, today announced the company has successfully renewed its Control Systems Integrators Association (CSIA) Certification. CSIA Certified control system integrators must pass an intensive audit every three years to demonstrate that they meet stringent performance standards.  Jose M. Rivera, CEO of the CSIA said, “Congratulations to [E Tech Group] for their successful CSIA re-certification. They lead the pack as the only system integrator with eight consecutive certification rounds to date. I congratulate [E Tech Group] for their leadership and for having made the CSIA Best Practices part of their company culture. Keep it up! By supporting the CSIA Certification program [E Tech Group] is not only advancing their company, they are also elevating the playing field for the entire control systems integration community.”   Qualifications of Elite Control System Integrators The intensive CSIA audit process is conducted by an independent third-party consulting firm measuring criteria in general management, financial management, project management, quality management, technical management, human resources, and business development. CSIA Certification ultimately provides benefits to end-users of automation technology by ensuring CSIA Certified control system integrators are financially healthy companies capable of completing projects in a professional and technically sound manner.   In addition to being eight-time certified by CSIA, E Tech Group has passed over sixty quality management and validation audits and is both a Rockwell Automation Solution Partner and Siemens Automation Solution Partner. In June of 2020, E Tech Group announced the company had also qualified as an OSI Soft Solution Partner.  Some of E Tech Group’s specialized expertise is in the biotech and life sciences industries. The company specializes in complex FDA validated automation systems. We offer coast-to-coast capabilities with multiple locations in the biotech and life science hubs of New England and California. E Tech Group’s 400+ engineers at 18 … Continued

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Increased Flexibility & Better Quality for Pharmaceutical Manufacturer
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How to Perform a Risk Assessment  

– By Tony Schalk, Functional Safety Engineer (TÜV Rheinland), Automation Systems Engineer, E Tech Group  Sophisticated companies know that safety is a journey, not a destination. It is a part of their strategic, ongoing growth. As more and more companies look to implement safety programs, questions about budget, time, effort, and feasibility come into play. Larger companies may already employ a safety engineer or even a safety team, with well-established metrics and objectives each year. If you don’t fall into that category, don’t be discouraged. The most important thing you can do on any journey is to start. To begin your safety journey, you start with a risk assessment. In the United States, when an accident originates from machinery, the owner of the machine is responsible for the safety, not just the manufacturer of the machine. This means that if something happens, it’s technically your responsibility. Understanding this responsibility highlights the importance of a structured machinery safety program. The beauty of the risk assessment is that it is your education on what could happen with the machinery in your facility. What you choose to do with your newfound knowledge is up to you; however, in the immortal words of G.I. Joe, “Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.”  There are a few caveats. Although companies could self-perform their risk assessments, it isn’t a job that just anyone in your plant can do. Risk assessments are often performed by professionals with training in machinery safety standards such as ISO 13849, IEC 62061, and related functional safety methodologies, as well as an understanding of ISO 13849 or IEC 62061 standards. Anyone could pick up the standard and follow the process, but it’s hard to implement a standard and its many details if you’re new to safety. This is where having … Continued

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Announcing E-Tech Group Partnership with OSIsoft and the PI System

As part of E Tech Group’s commitment to providing industry-leading automation solutions to help our customers meet and exceed their goals and needs, we’re pleased to announce our partnership with OSIsoft and the OSI PI System (Now AVEVA PI).  OSIsoft’s decision to partner with us further demonstrates our ability to implement the latest technology for the demands of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). We’re excited to provide the value-added benefits of the OSIsoft Partner Ecosphere to our current EvoSystem collection of off-the-shelf yet custom-designed solutions. The OSI PI System (Now AVEVA PI) offers enterprise infrastructure for the management of real-time data and events and has become an industry standard across industrial verticals.  Strategic Significance of Our AVEVA PI Partnership E Tech Group’s partnership with OSIsoft extends beyond individual services, establishing a unified, company-wide approach to leveraging the PI System across all E Tech Group brands. This strategic collaboration positions E Tech Group as a leader in industrial automation and digital transformation, enabling enterprise-scale adoption of IIoT solutions for a wide variety of industries. Enterprise-Level Benefits Through this partnership, E Tech Group strengthens its ability to: Long-Term Impact for Clients and the Industry Clients benefit not only from superior technology implementation but also from E Tech Group’s coordinated approach, which enables scalable and repeatable solutions across global operations. This partnership reflects E Tech Group’s commitment to innovation, continuous improvement, and delivering measurable value in industrial automation and IIoT initiatives. At E Tech Group, we continually push the edge with today’s evolving technologies. As part of this dedication to innovation, while adhering to industry-specific standards, we look forward to utilizing our industrial automation expertise to install and implement the OSI PI System Infrastructure for current and future customers.  Ask us anything about the OSI PI System, and we will show … Continued

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Risk Mitigation of Critical Data Loss

A commercial drug manufacturer in collaboration with E Tech Group implemented a critical monitoring system that required environmental data to be recorded in a 21 CFR Part 11 compliant manner. What Was at Stake: The Role of Critical Control Data in This Facility In this facility, critical control data played a central role in maintaining uptime, coordinating production, and ensuring regulatory compliance. This included: Losing access to this data — even temporarily — could have disrupted operations, reduced batch quality, or triggered costly downtime. The Plan to Mitigate Risk With an intent to mitigate the risk of data loss, the drug manufacturer chose Vaisala instrumentation to read and locally store environmental data. The Vaisala instrumentation chosen can store environmental data locally on the device and report environmental data to an OPC-compliant SCADA system. The drug manufacturer had a need for a solution that moves data stored on the devices to the Rockwell Automation SCADA system in the event of data loss. E Tech Group provided a solution that detects data loss, recovers the lost data from the devices, and moves it to the SCADA system. The solution included a Windows service that polls the SCADA for gaps in historian data. If a gap is found, the solution pulls data from the buffers and populates it into the SCADA system. This provides redundancy and verification that critical data resides in a single repository, ensuring data integrity. The customer relied solely on the existing SCADA and used the most robust instrumentation to protect against critical data loss. The Need for a Professional System Integrator The end-user chose Vaisala instrumentation equipped with loggers that provide data buffering to protect against critical data loss. However, the buffering capability did not integrate “off the shelf” with the existing SCADA, Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk. The buffered data from … Continued

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Ensuring Manufacturing Automation Solutions are Comprehensive & Customized

Manufacturing automation solutions are becoming increasingly important as manufacturing becomes more complex, diverse and competitive. By automating tasks, manufacturers can improve their efficiency, reduce costs and enhance quality, which allows them to remain competitive in their respective sectors. No matter the sector, each production facility requires its own unique solution to control system design and implementation, as they’re dealing with different products, capacities, resources, etc. Existing facilities may require extensive retrofits to avoid obsolescence and blind spots inherent in piecemeal automation systems. Future-focused manufacturers require advanced process control solutions that integrate and monitor automated tasks across the entire facility to improve quality and capacity while cutting downtime and costs, and E Tech Group can help.