Co-operation between laboratory and piloting is a key factor when it comes to EPSE’s customer porjects.
Site Manager Kimmo Hellsten, who nowadays plans and operates customer pilots, began his EPSE journey in laboratory, and now it’s time for the new Laboratory Manager, Salla Heinonen, to get to know the piloting in practice. Salla will be on a customer site for a week with Kimmo and Jukka-Pekka Varis, and she is exited to learn how to use the pilot equipment. EPSE works hard to make its processes even more customer-focused and understanding the pilot process and its needs helps when developing the laboratory.
Now with face masks everywhere, fogging eye goggles have been an annoying problem, but no other difficulties have emerged. Each customer project begins with laboratory testing, after which comes piloting, where the functionality of the method in bigger scale is proven to the customers. In order for the laboratory and piloting to work well together, both parties need to understand each other’s basic principles and processes. Communication between the laboratory and piloting needs to work well also because the pilots are often controlled based on almost real-time laboratory analyses: results help defining run parameters, enabling efficient optimizing of the process.
This article was written by Anni Honkonen.