Case Study: Colton Plant

Introduction

From time to time, Thermo Fisher Scientific has received suggestions from our customers on the advancement of the dynamic calibration process. These suggestions varied greatly in character and scope depending on the specific details of the plant making the suggestion. Thermo Fisher Scientific's software and applications teams, located in the San Diego R&D excellence center, launched a program to design an innovative response to our customer's comments. Thermo Fisher Scientific invited partipation from California Portland Cement's Colton Plant for several reasons. The Colton plant has keen and active interest in pursuing process improvement and reducing cost, plus, they are very familiar with use and application of Thermo Fisher Scientific's PGNAA products. Together we worked to deveop an advanced calibration tool that mimimizes the manual labor and time consumed in dynamically calibrating PGNAA Analyzers. Beta testing would be performed by the team at California Portland Cement's Colton plant.