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SMART Monitoring

Connect, protect and

optimize the process

performance of your plant

DIGITAL

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SMART Monitoring

Successful operation of pulp and paper mill depends on sensors measuring key process variables such as

consistency, brightness or kappa. The cornerstone of an efficient process is the reliability and repeatability

of each measurement. This means that regular manual sensor checks need to take place, which can be

complicated, time-consuming, and expensive.

BTG makes it easy

With SMART Monitoring, users get early and real-time performance information on all assets. BTG

sensors and related process measurements are continuously monitored in order to detect abnormal

operation. BTG application experts can remotely access and diagnose problems, meaning near-immediate

identification of measurement or calibration problems.

Increased collaboration

The cloud deployment removes

traditional time and distance barriers,

facilitating real-time collaboration

between your site, BTG service

personnel and BTG’s global process and

instrument experts. This collaboration

permits to address operational issues

and unexpected events much more

quickly.

Increased productivity

The better data insights produced through

SMART Monitoring transform the overall

effectiveness of the mill operations.

Downtime is reduced and opportunities

are visible, permitting to maximize the

utilization of the assets in the mill.

SMART Monitoring is based on bConnect™.

bConnect™ is BTG’s gateway to the benefits of industry 4.0 – a complete, globally

available, unified edge-to-cloud solution for connecting mill assets.

Built around the Microsoft Azure platform, bConnect connects BTG process instrumen-

tation into a cloud infrastructure via specially developed BTG edge hardware. In the

cloud, Digital Twin sensor intelligence is realized, whereby all connected BTG devices

are duplicated virtually.

Comprising BTG innovations in both on-site and cloud services, and supported through

our global engineering and applications team, bConnect™ meets the precise needs

and solves the challenges facing today’s pulp and paper mill companies.

Get SMART Monitoring now!

Transitioning a mill to a SMART Monitoring service is easy, fast and efficient. SMART Monitoring comes as an add-on to

an existing BTG Instrument service contract, as a monthly subscription fee by instrument. The value of your service contract

will be highly maximized, thanks to the transformation of a discrete approach to a continuous support.

Upgrading the BTG instruments with SMART Monitoring takes a few minutes and is done by our BTG experts on-site. Once

this is done, your mill will enter a new era that you will never want to leave!

Customer successes

Customers are sharing the benefits they

experience:

● 70’000€ / year in fiber savings thanks

to higher measurement accuracy

● 210’000€ / year in chemical savings,

as well as reduced variability of the

brightness.

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ContactFor more information, contact your sales representative.

You can also visit our website (www.btg.com),

follow us on linked in (www.linkedin.com/company/followbtg)

or write us (info@btg.com)

About us

The BTG Group is a multinational provider of integrated, highly specialized process solutions for the global pulp and

paper industry. Every day our people help customers achieve sustainable gains in business performance through our

application know-how and industry-leading technologies. This includes world-leading rods and beds for film-metering size

presses; high-performance ceramic and cermet coating blades; high-performance tissue creping doctors and doctor

holders, specialty doctor blades and pulp and paper process control sensors and laboratory instruments. All of these

technologies are supported with expert services and application support.

Our advanced integration philosophy combines high-quality instrumentation, detailed and versatile data analytics and our

unique, expert applications experience to provide BTG customers with operational advantages that realise new gains in

productivity and profitability.

Headquartered in Eclépens, Switzerland, BTG employs about 600 professionals across the world and operates four

manufacturing sites, three research centers and several regional application centers. The BTG Group is an operating unit

of Voith Paper (www.voith.com).

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