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Rotork Australia supplied Fairchild Model 10 pressure regulators for research applications demanding highly accurate pressure control at the TRI Australasia facility near to Queensland’s Gold Coast.

By Renishaw Amicra Microtechnologies manufactures precision assembly systems. They replaced incremental measuring systems with absolute optical encoders and achieved ±0.5µm accuracy and 1.66 Cpk process capability.

Alpha Packaging deployed InfinityQS ProFicient at its St. Louis and Bethlehem, Pa., plants with the remaining five plants scheduled for rollout during the 2013 calendar year.

Control loop audits, advanced process control project management, and model predictive control project support have together helped MOL achieve savings of over $9 million since 2006.

Emerson supplied a DeltaV automation system and SIS safety instrumented systems on a new hydro cracking/hydrodesulphurization unit, hydrogen generation unit, sulphur recovery unit in Croatia.

Spuntech Industries’ North Carolina plant has a Profibus network that runs seven PLCs with approximately 350 nodes. To help diagnose problems, Spuntech installed Trebing + Himstedt’s TH LINK hardware and TH SCOPE diagnostic software.

The Littleton/Englewood Wastewater Treatment in Colorado had 35 gateway access points to monitor and troubleshoot all the instruments and processes within the Profibus network. They replaced the gateways with Trebing + Himstedt’s TH LINK devices.

Replay system uses cameras and sophisticated algorithms to create three dimensional photo-realistic real-time scenes of football mayhem.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The Louisiana Sugar Refining, LLC (LSR) completed a new plant, representing the single largest investment in America’s sugar cane industry in over 40 years. With a newly engineered Siemens automation system, the white sugar refinery is capable of refining two billion pounds of white sugar annually for distribution to commercial and retail customers throughout the United States.

Rotork flow control equipment has been installed at a sewage treatment works serving Somerset’s largest tourist resort on the south west coast of England.

With single cable technology that combines motor power and feedback connections, hardware and wiring requirements in machine control applications are significantly reduced.

At the Bullitt Center, KMC’s BACnet Building Controllers and FlexStats are used for control of radiant floor heating and cooling zones, indoor air quality management, and to provide free cooling.

The Neon-CLB PCIe frame grabber is a key component of the 3D structured-light imaging system deployed in the Robomotive humanoid robot, jointly developed by Yaskawa Motoman, Beltech and Robotiq.

Crank Software, a supplier of embedded graphical user interface (GUI) solutions, is using GrammaTech’s CodeSonar to advance the integrity of their code.

ABB supplied an Extended Automation System 800xA solution that includes process control, electrical control, information management and asset optimization.

Before faucet maker RSS Manufacturing put the UR5 robot to work, bending 1500 units on a tube bender using manual labor would take 3 days. With the robot, the same job took four hours.

Cylinder locks are mass produced articles that require high positioning precision with the shortest possible workpiece cycle times. Weiss provided a fully automated cylinder lock assembly machine.

The 600-MW plant is the first ultra-supercritical power plant built in the United States. Emerson worked with the SWEPCO team to develop the sophisticated logic needed to integrate controls for the ultra-supercritical boiler into the overall plant automation architecture.

Tire machine manufacturer uses eWON routers during commissioning and for remote maintenance and troubleshooting.

The SabraFence Perimeter Defense System uses relay controller boards from Intelligent Appliance to monitor multiple sensing transducers used in perimeter detection.