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Galil motion controller moves Instrument for Leaf Analysis
Galil's DMC-4020 is used to position perfectly aligned beams from white light confocal displacement sensors and to scan a leaf surface in a predefined pattern. -
Datapaq measures floodlight temperatures
When the sun comes out on a rainy Wimbledon match day, the roof over Centre Court can be retracted, but only after the floodlights have cooled down sufficiently. Datapaq measured how long it takes. -
Emerson updates burner management system at Sasol
Emerson migrated an old burner management system on a distillation column furnace to Emerson’s DeltaV during the plant’s annual scheduled shutdown this 2014. -
Ultrasonic Technology Helps City of Charlotte Pursue Increased Energy from Renewable Biogas
By Steve Milford, Endress+Hauser The City of Charlotte, NC, uses Endress+Hauser ultrasonic flowmeters to measure the flow and methane content of biogas from anaerobic digesters that treat sludge in the wastewater treatment facility. The biogas is used to generate electricity. -
Micro-Epsilon measures wheel spinning at 1,100mph
Micro-Epsilon supplied sensors for a high speed (up to 10,500rpm) wheel spin test, part of the BLOODHOUND SSC Project – the 1,000 mph land speed record attempt that is scheduled to take place in 2016. -
Multi-camera vision system inspects engine rings
By Russ Butchart, Puffin Automation Vision system for an unnamed manufacturer inspects defects as small as 0.008" on all four surfaces of an engine ring with a changeover time of less than 1 min. -
GE Software analyzes Cincinnati Sewers
Proficy will assist the city in bringing together information about their wastewater system from remote locations to provide a system-wide view of what’s really happening across its watersheds. -
OSI manages outages at Powerco of New Zealand
OSI installed an Outage Management System (OMS) for Powerco of New Zealand, based on OSI's Spectra OMS software platform. -
Prego and INSYS connect electrical grid wirelessly
The wireless network at Pfalzwerke Netz integrates remote substations, secondary substations, renewable energy systems, and switching points into a network control system while providing protection from unauthorised access and tampering. -
Axis thermal network cameras provide security for a solar field
With 34 cameras installed along the perimeter of the photovoltaic field, Solesa can detect animals, people, objects, acts of vandalism or attempted theft in complete darkness and difficult conditions, such as dust, fog and rain. -
TopView software monitors power use in the UK
Balancing the supply and demand of electricity is a dynamic challenge and a mandatory requirement for electricity providers on the grid in the UK. Endeco Technologies uses TopView to monitor site power. -
eWON connects HIMA and Allen Bradley PLCs at gas plant
The Summail Gas Plant has an Integrated Control & Safety System which consists of a Process Control System, Emergency Shutdown System, Fire & Gas Detection System, SCADA server, and Alarm annunciation systems, but their PLCs couldn't talk to each other. -
PcVue SCADA Automates Dry Docks in Pearl Harbor
The dry dock operation has been automated using supervisory and data acquisition systems (SCADA) from PcVue, which control a network of Limitorque actuators. -
Weiss rotary indexing table cuts test time for parts
Geissler wanted to accelerate cycle times for a test bench that performed the final inspection of precision turned parts. They replaced a pneumatic rotary indexing table with a directly driven TO series rotary indexing table from Weiss. -
Stereo 3D machine vision cameras help robot bin picker
BsAutomatisierung in Rosenfeld,Germany, uses Ensenso 3D vision cameras in its robotic bin-picking cells to pick individual, randomly aligned parts out of a container and pass them on to downstream production processes. -
UNIGEN starts up Werum's PAS-X MES in only four months
PAS-X was delivered with the entire user interface in Japanese. Werum carried out this project in cooperation with their Japanese integration partner CST Chiyoda System Technologies. -
Inductive Automation HMI/SCADA system monitors Fractionation Plant
Enerchem’s Slave Lake fractionation plant in Albert, Canada, replaced an outmoded HMI system with an Ignition HMI/SCADA system from Inductive Automation. -
Better Data Analysis Increases Efficiency at Coffee Plant
An HMI from InduSoft improves productivity through automated monitoring and tracking of operations at Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee in Fort Worth, Texas. -
Unitronics PLC controls Brewery in New Hampshire
The PLC supports temperature measurement in three, 800 gallon fermenters, records batch data, and automates the circulation pump, transfer pump and 300,000 btu Boiler. -
Step change in boiler house control
Byworth Boilers in Keighley, UK, uses ABB’s Freelance DCS to control and monitor its boilers. The DCS replaces discrete stand-alone controllers for each loop, such as the maintenance of water level.