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Vision System Automates Mining Bridge Conveyor
HINZ developed a machine vision system that automatically measures the amount and distribution of potash on a mining conveyor as it is loaded by the bridge conveyor. This information is used by the mine control system to automatically move the bridge conveyor to correct any imbalance. -
Rockwell Automation drives Underground Mining operations
Four PowerFlex 755 Variable Frequency Drives operate motors that run the hydraulic emulsion pumps responsible for advancing roof supports at an unnamed mining company in Illinois. -
Farsens’s RFID sensor tags monitor data center conditions
RFID sensor tags do not require batteries to monitor temperature, pressure and humidity of equipment remotely. -
ITTIA puts embedded database in robots
Wasserbauer installed ITTIA DB SQL data base into its Butler robots. -
Barcelona Airport Takes Off with Integrated Command and Control System
Wonderware software integrated all their existing disparate systems, achieved reliable and cost-efficient control, enabled safe operations and created scalability for future growth. -
Rockwell Automation controls Ridgeline Pipe Manufacturing
Ridgeline Pipe manufactures about 125 different PVC pipe products that vary in length, diameter, color, markings and other requirements. Allen-Bradley ControlLogix L61 programmable automation controller (PAC) manages all control and motion functions for each piece of equipment in the PVC manufacturing process. -
Kepware connects 17 plants of Cascades Tissue Group
Using Kepware’s KEPServerEX, Cascades now supports communications across all of its seventeen plants, seventeen paper machines, and nearly ninety converting lines with just one piece of software. -
Emerson Wireless Steam Trap Monitors Increase Efficiency at Coffee Plant in Mexico
By David Gustafson, Emerson Process Management It took only two weeks to install the first system, and already it’s saved $100,000 in maintenance costs and increased production by 5,000 tons per year. -
Advanticsys monitors wind and solar in Spain
Kliux Energies in Spain selected Advanticsys’ remote monitoring technology to manage their renewable-energy generation facilities. -
Octapharma adds Track & Trace software at pharma plant
Octapharma, a manufacturer of human protein products, is using the PAS-X Track & Trace Serialization Aggregation solution in Vienna. -
Endress+Hauser Supplies Flow and Level Instruments to Refinery in Colombia
Endress+Hauser was the Main Instrument Vendor for a $3.8 billion expansion and modernization project at Refineria de Cartagena in Columbia. -
Bottero grinds glass with half the motors
Bottero ground out a solution that is based on a single Kollmorgen AKD servo-converter for driving two servo-motors that are not simultaneously operating. -
Particle sizing analyzer helps production of slag cements
Zementwerk Berlin is using Malvern Instruments’ Insitec on-line particle sizing systems to efficiently manufacture high performance, ‘environmentally friendly’ slag cements. -
Roxtec seals up Beverage Machine cables
KHS, a manufacturer of filling and packaging systems for the beverage and food industries, uses Roxtec systems to route multiple pre-terminated cables through one opening, eliminating the cost and labor of cutting connection cables and making individual holes for each. -
Wonderware MES Software improves operations at Belgium Brewing
Wonderware MES Performance software cut downtime by 50% and saves $400,000 annually at New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins, Co. -
NORD gear units pump water at reservoir project
An underground pumping station was created to pump water from the Limmernboden reservoir into the Muttsee lake about 600 m higher up. This elevation difference will be used to produce hydroelectric power on demand. -
SCADA system monitors 2,479 wind turbines
Iberdrola Renewables in Oregon uses a SCADA system from PcVue in its National Control Center to monitor every turbine at every wind farm throughout the country. Iberdrola has 2,479 wind turbines, each with 300 to 350 data points, which equates to 700,000 to 850,000 I/O data points on more than 20 servers. -
Airbus Implements Industrial Internet of Things (Smart Tools)
By Bill Lydon, Editor The French aircraft manufacturer Airbus has stated futuristic long-range goals based on their corporate philosophy. The integration of cyber-physical systems and big analog data enables smarter production and allows operators and machines to collaborate in the same physical environment. -
Wolffkran employs INSYS for IP-based remote maintenance
The company introduced an IP-based remote maintenance system for their products that ensures a high degree of IT security by using encrypted VPN connections and cellular radio routers. -
Keyence vision systems inspect parts at Leatherman Tools
The Keyence systems replaced hard gauging that Leatherman used for many years to evaluate components for its tools, eliminating cabinets full of hard fixtures built for specific parts.