Paradox Engineering controls lighting in Paris
The project named “Voie sur Berges,” along the River Seine, supports the management and control of the luminaires in the area.
Control System Replacement to Improve Production
Automation World
By C. Kenna Amos
Whether processing chemicals or crude oil, the decision to change out your control system is never easy. Then the real work—and benefit—reveals itself. These users have the battle scars to prove it.
Feedback Critical to Machining Precision
Control Design
By Per Junskog
MT, a builder of precision grinding machines, uses optical and magnetic encoders to aid high-accuracy production of wind turbine bearings.
Metal detector meets challenges of ice cream conductivity
Packaging World
English ice-cream maker Cheshire Farm replaces outdated metal detector with new system that can handle temperature fluctuations for high contaminant sensitivity.
Metso controls Finland's largest pellet-fired heating plant
The Metso DNA automation system lets the Tampere plant operate unmanned with remote monitoring from the main control room of the Lielahti power plant.
PC-based controls help packaging machines
Control Engineering
The Pattyn Ceflex-21 bag-in-box packaging machine is controlled by a Beckhoff CX1010 Embedded PC with directly connected EtherCAT Terminals. Beckhoff EL7041 and EL7031 stepper motor terminals control the stepper motors.
Simulation software boosts machine productivity
Control Engineering
Armor produces inked ribbon used in thermal transfer printing. They increased machine productivity 20% by using simulation software to create improvements, rather than trial and error, which can waste time and product.
Energy Savings with a Servo-Electric Pump Drive
Pumps & Systems
Press manufacturer Lasco Umformtechnik, a machine tool builder in Coburg, Germany, uses a servo-electric pump drive for solid and sheet metal forming presses. The new technology allows expensive, traditional valve systems to be eliminated, and energy efficiency has been significantly improved.
Mexico Uses Nuclear Plant Simulator for Safe Training Power
By Jesús Bustos and Octavio Camargo, Instituto de Investigaciones Eléctricas
Mexico’s Federal Electrical Commission needed a safe way to train new operators at its Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant in Veracruz, so it developed a stand-alone process simulator that allows trainees to practice a wide variety of plant operations and responses to incidents without putting the plant itself at risk
SCADA Monitoring Maximizes Pump System Performance
Pumps & Systems
With its SCADA system, the city of Eureka, Missouri, can remotely monitor and control pumps in real time, obtain data for system analysis and receive immediate alarms.
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Particle size analyzer helps develop nanostructured carbon
EnerG2, a company developing nanostructured carbons for energy storage, is using a Mastersizer 3000 laser diffraction particle size analyzer from Malvern Instruments to measure and characterize its high performance products.
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SCADA system monitors Canadian hydroelectric plants
Citect SCADA and Exele alarm software monitor three hydro generating stations, four sub stations and the distribution system for the City of Edmundston,New Brunswick.
IE4 motor and drive package goes into action
Control Engineering Europe
ABB’s IE4 synchronous reluctance motor and drive package (SynRM) has replaced an induction motor-based variable-speed drive package at South Staffs Water in the UK, resulting in an additional 6% energy saving.
SCADA solution offers a more detailed view of textile production
Control Engineering Europe
Turkish company Ekoten Textile, is able to record and compile data from every stage of its textile production process by using an InduSoft Web Studio HMI/SCADA system.
Cat Pumps remove labels on keg cleaning line
Process and Control Today
At the Molson Coors brewery in the UK, high pressure positive displacement plunger pumps on the automated keg cleaning lines is proving highly effective for removing labels. BRC regulations dictate that because the lager is a food, every stage of the brewing process has to be recorded and labelled for accountability reasons.
Plastic Recycler goes Greener by swapping to AC Drives
Process and Control Today
Maintenance costs have been reduced significantly at an unidentified plastic recycling plant by replacing the DC drive on the critically important compounder with a variable speed AC system.
Ralspeed keeps environCom hammering
Process and Control Today
When the 335 kW ac variable speed drive for its hammer mill failed, environCom, operator of the UK’s largest e-waste recycling plant, Ralspeed quickly located the source of the problem and supplied a replacement control panel, complete with a new drive.
Power-saving pump control system slashes energy bills at Elster Metering
Process and Control Today
Elster, a UK water meter manufacturer, is accruing sizeable energy savings, approximately £2600 per machine, after upgrading 15 of its injection moulding machines to incorporate Sumitomo (SHI) Demag’s active Control systems.
Motors and Drives Grow Up and Graduate
Control
Motors and drives have been moving up to variable-speed control for better accuracy, but now they're also increasing power density and efficiency and even coordinating more closely with PLCs and intelligent systems. Here are some examples.
Web-based plant operation using PC-based automation
Industrial Ethernet Book
Aixcon PowerSystems manufactures systems used to produce longitudinal seam welding of composite pipes. They use PC controllers and high-speed EtherCAT networking for welding plants in metal working applications.
