A straightforward maintenance strategy yields improved plant performance.

The article focuses on the straightforward and consistent maintenance strategy implemented by the Monsanto Muscatine manufacturing facility, which received the 2012 HART Plant of the Year Award. Emerson DeltaV and Provox DCS platforms controls the processing units of the facility, which is tied to more than 3,200 instrument assets. The facility also uses the SAP CMMS to track labor and material costs in a particularly equipment.