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Smurfit-Stone Paper Mill Meets Compliance Requirements for Security and Safety with ION Video Application and Implements Open Infrastructure for Future Applications

The Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation's Stevenson, AL mill faced the need to drastically improve security in order to comply with the United States Maritime Transportation Security Act. Smurfit-Stone Stevenson partnered with Apprion to implement a mill-wide Apprion ION wireless application network, wireless cameras, and ION video analysis application. By implementing an open wireless infrastructure, Smurfit-Stone Stevensen can easily add new applications such as Communications, Condition Monitoring and Mobility that will deliver numerous additional benefits - operational efficiency, unified communications and more security and safety. Key results to date include:

• Huge mill-wide security improvements with real-time video and incident alerts
• Significant safety improvements with remote monitoring
• Cost-savings by meeting compliance regulations without the high costs of universal TWIC card distribution and by not having to run wires to every camera

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As anyone in marketing knows, for a product to sell, you just can’t rely on one type of medium to extol the virtues of your wares. You have to have a clear plan and then use the various forms of media to get the word out. Whether it is video, broadcast, podcast, print, electronic, television, billboards, whatever, you can’t rely on one entity to spread the corporate gospel. A clearly defined approach that hits the market and consumer just right should end up leaving you in high cotton.

The same is true for a manufacturer needing a multi-dimensional approach to safety and security. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out you need a plan. However, assessing the risk and knowing how far you want to go to ensure your safety and security with things like video, condition monitoring, asset tracking, and communications, to name a few, ends up being the billion-dollar question. It is truly a billion-dollar question because that is what it is costing companies every year in lost revenue: Multi billions.

A 30-year publishing veteran, Gregory Hale is the editor and founder of ISSSource.com, a web news portal covering the safety and security industry for manufacturing automation.

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Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation Secures Mill and Addresses MARSEC Requirements with Largest Industrial Wireless Video Monitoring System to Date

08.04.2010 – Apprion, the leader in industrial wireless applications networks announced it has completed work on one of the world’s largest and most ambitious industrial wireless video applications at Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation’s facility in Stevenson, AL. Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation is a leading integrated containerboard and corrugated packaging producer, and one of the world's largest paper recyclers. Faced with the need to drastically improve security in order to comply with the United States Maritime Transportation Security Act (CFR 33), Smurfit-Stone implemented a mill-wide Apprion ION wireless application network, wireless cameras, and ION video analysis application.

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Apprion delivers wireless application networks and services for the process manufacturing industry. These wireless application networks are based on Apprion's ION System. Integrated into the ION System are five applications that are core to industrial wireless application networks: Asset Tracking, Communications, Condition Monitoring, Workforce Mobility, and Video.

Whether it is the need to address safety or security concerns, reduce maintenance or material costs, or improve productivity or asset utilization, a wireless application network from Apprion will assure that any wireless application is easier to deploy and manage while delivering value faster, more efficiently. For more information, visit www.apprion.com.

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