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Case Study: Chemical Plant Safety System Features Advanced Coriolis Meters
BASF plant increases uptime using entrained gas management and in situ verification. From January 2021 InTech Focus. -
Case Study: A Philosophy of Automation
In its truest sense, automation means controlling a process automatically, without human intervention. It’s little wonder then that Ricoh, one of the world’s leaders in office automation solutions, applies that ethos holistically across its business. -
Case Study: Automating Production at the World’s First Facility Making Omega-3 Oil from Marine Algae
Maintaining existing output at the facility while upgrading systems and processes was necessary to meet strict quality and production standards. -
Case Study: How Do You Update 900 PLCs in Warehouses with Minimal Downtime?
The following application of a CODESYS customer, the Gebhardt Intralogistics Group, shows how Digital Twins in the cloud and a cloud-based controller management can speed up the process of updating a large number of PLCs to the point where it’s just a few mouse clicks. -
Case Study: Fracking Water-transfer Application Reduces Upstream Costs in Remote Areas
An upstream service provider has implemented a Bedrock OSA Remote secure control node in a fracking water transfer application. This node, which replaces traditional PLCs to synchronize and monitor water pumping across miles of remote desert terrain, increased operational efficiency by over 50 percent. -
Case Study: A Natural Gas Distributor Solves Local Access Challenges
A distributor of natural gas needed a lightweight, local, wireless access solution at remote sites to replace old paper recording calibration methods. The patent-pending Xona platform met the distributor’s stringent efficiency and cybersecurity requirements. -
Case Study: Simmons Machine Tool Corporation Finds GROB G550T to Meet Highly Demanding Manufacturing Needs
Railway machine tool builder needed robust 5-axis machine to ensure uptime, accuracy, and precision in cutter tool manufacturing. -
Good Things Come in Automated Packages
MIG-O-MAT wanted to bolster its already established soldering technology, increasing accuracy and repeatability. To do this, the company began to investigate ways to remove 100 per cent of process fatigue by deploying automation. In other words, to remove humans from the equation. -
Case Study: Automotive Leader Finds a Faster Solution to High-Performance Robot Vision
A leading producer of automotive components quickly overcame its automation challenges by leveraging the speed and simplicity of Yamaha’s RCXiVY2+ dedicated robot vision system. -
Case Study: King County Preserves the Past in New State-of-the-Art Drawbridge
PowerFlex DC drive technology brings reliability and familiarity to rebuilt Seattle bridge. -
Case Study: Achieving Consistently Reliable Batch Processing to Spec
Automating procedures with greater operator control and visibility can minimize human error, while improving quality and productivity. -
Case Study: Rockwell Automation Helps Cut COVID-19 Test Strip Machine Build Time in Half
Our customers must keep moving forward–in the new world, they are navigating new needs. They might need fewer machines than before or twice as many. That requires us to be flexible. -
Case Study: Shell to Automate Jakarta Lube Oil Blending Plant
The collaboration between ABB and PT Shell will maximize lubricant output to meet increasing demand in Indonesia. -
Case Study: Prepared for the Future with Software-Supported Robotics
ZF Friedrichshafen relies on a special programming software environment for the simulation of robot applications, the generation of program code using a modular principle, and the reduction of maintenance costs as well as the ability to work independently of manufacturers. -
Case Study: Autonomous Mobile Robots Help Teradyne Clean Production Areas and Labs
Similar to other jobs that are dirty, dull, and dangerous for human workers (the 3Ds), and that require highly consistent and reliable outcomes, the “new normal” of disinfection is ripe for automation. -
Case Study: IIoT for Car Wash Management
Learn how the CODESYS Automation Server and IIoT devices provide precise cloud-based control. -
Sensor Technology helps ALARIS Medical Systems enhance pump drive design
Sensor Technology has harnessed the phenomenon of SAW or Raleigh waves, which were first observed over 100 years ago and which form a major part of the destructive force of an earthquake. -
Siemens helps carbon manufacturer modernize DCS
Birla Carbon has relied for many years on a distributed control system to optimize the production of carbon black powder. When it came time to modernize their DCS, they implemented an IO migration strategy to minimize plant downtime and hardware replacement costs. -
Baumer helps Arla Foods analyze energy consumption using flow sensors
Dairy cooperative Arla Foods has, for the first time, created transparency over the energy consumed in cottage cheese production at its Falkenberg location. This involves the use of the Baumer Flex-Flow sensor, which is able to measure the temperature of the medium as well as the flow rate. -
AMETEK helps Ternium enhance steel inspection process
Ternium S.A., a steel manufacturer in the Americas, wanted to find a way to minimize these breakages, safeguarding the mechanical integrity of the mill and ensuring maximum process continuity.
