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Kepware OPC server helps Molex handle many protocols
Molex plant floors consist of hundreds of different machines from a variety of vendors, with each speaking its own language or “protocol.” An OPC server connected them all. -
Patti Engineering Installs PC-based Sorting System
By Georgia Whalen, Patti Engineering Patti used Phoenix Contact PCs to automate high speed inline checkweighers on a parcel sortation system for Fives Intralogistics. -
Omnity PLM software helps Cytonome purify cells
Cytonome produces cell purification systems and needed to achieve bi-directional seamless communications among engineering, manufacturing and purchasing. PLM software helped. -
Egemin is using PLCs to pump waterways in Belgium
Egemin Automation will update controls or install completely new PLC-based control systems for pumping stations along Belgian rivers and canals. -
Roxtec seals cables on motor controllers
Roeslein & Associates in St. Louis uses Roxtec cable sealing systems in ArmorStart distributed motor controllers to help meet the need for more cables to bring in 3-phase and control voltage for new installations. -
HMI simplifies FDA and USDA compliance reporting
By: Julio Delgado, Stock America HMI software from InduSoft provides eSignatures, database connectivity and other features vital to proper process validation and compliance with food and pharmaceutical regulations. -
SmartCheck keeps cranes craning
By installing condition monitoring systems on its gantry cranes, port operator RheinCargo is now able to detect any damage to crane hoisting gear early, therefore eliminating any costly, unplanned downtime. -
InfinityQS software Helps General Cable cut raw material costs
General Cable deployed InfinityQS ProFicient, an enterprise quality platform powered by a centralized statistical process control (SPC) analytical engine, at 14 of its manufacturing locations. -
Asiatic Agricultural Industries Converts to EX
Mettler Toledo helped Asiatic Agricultural Industries to convert its mix of EX and non-EX equipment in its plants to all EX equipment. -
Mettler Toledo provides Hygienic Scales to Chinese food plant
WH Group, China’s market leader for meat and pork products, invested in hygienically designed bench scales to stay ahead of competition and to further enhance food safety in its production facilities. -
Rotork actuators control Gas blending process
A CVL-5000 electric control valve actuator replaced an existing actuator on a blending flow control valve in a trial at the Fluxys booster station in Belgium. -
Formulation and Mixing with Flexibility and Precision
Matcon’s equipment allows its customers to formulate, blend and pack dry ingredients for the pharmaceutical industry. Matcon uses scales from Mettler Toledo for precise hygienic batching. -
Parts Supplier Shortens Order-Preparation Time with New Counting Solution
Ravnihar produces components for the production of electromechanical meters. Its operations include 18 computer-controlled injection-molding machines and a station equipped with Mettler Toledo scales to count parts and ensure quality. -
Integration Objects software monitors energy consumption at oil facility in Saudi Arabia
KnowledgeNet collects plant data from an OSIsoft PI historian and then uses computing, rules, fault propagation and workflow engines to reason over the data to identify the cause of performance gaps at Saudi Aramco Abqaiq Plants. -
HIMA modernizes safety systems at Heide Refinery
Heide Refinery used two weeks of planned downtime at its pyrolysis plant to migrate to new safety systems. -
Metso measures CO2 at power plant in Finland
The online solution replaces traditional CO2 reporting based on fuel data at the Martinlaakso 1 power plant run by Vantaan Energia in Vantaa, Finland. -
Copenhagen cooks its valve actuators
The Metropolitan Copenhagen Heating Transmission Company (CTR) installed Rotork IQ3 valve actuators to replace actuators that suffered permanent damage from the effects of hot water. -
Kollmorgen motors shrunk in Kuka robots
Kuka and Kollmorgen were able to reduce the installation volume of the motors compared to standard models, implement robot-specific applications and optimise the entire supply chain. -
Ford switches from sensors to vision for body panel inspection
Traditionally, body panels are inspected by using a robot to present the part to an array of proximity switches. Ford improved on this method by using machine vision. The camera connects to either the robot or the PLC using the Ethernet/IP protocol. -
Vision System helps Exide read battery labels
Exide had difficulties in reading 2D data matrix codes burned into plastic with a laser burner. The problem was solved by switching to image-based Cognex DataMan 200 readers with 2D decoding software and an EtherNet/IP interface to the PLC.