Success Stories
Granger Electric operates a landfill-gas-to-energy program in Pennsylvania that extracts methane from decomposing waste and supplies it to customers as an alternative "greenhouse" fuel. This article highlights the communication system used between Granger's control center and their customers' sites, to remotely access and monitor energy consumption.
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This story outlines how frequency hopping Ethernet radios from ProSoft Technology and ControlLogix PACs from Rockwell Automation were used by Gestamp Automoción on their automotive part stamping line to replace a hardwired system that caused frequent downtime at the facility. The radios handle all I/O for operation of the press despite having to communicate with difficult line-of-sight conditions.
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Valspar Paint and Coatings utilizes ProSoft Technology’s EtherNet/IP-to-HART gateway in each of their plants to move data from their 30-50 flow meters—used for their batching process—to a ControlLogix system with an RSView Human Machine Interface (HMI) for monitoring and maintenance, and RS-SQL for quality control.
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This article describes the complete overhaul of a mining operation in Missouri. A proprietary, obsolete and inadequate system was replaced with Allen-Bradley equipment including an industrial PC, a SLC 5/03 processor, VersaView monitors, a ControlLogix processor and a MicroLogix processor, all communicating via RadioLinx wireless modems from ProSoft Technology. Company execs estimate new control system will save approximately $100,000 per year in downtime and manpower.
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Triangle Packaging Machinery Company had an application in which their Multihead Weigher and Vertical Form Fill Seal Bag Machine (VFFS) were used. This equipment works at extremely high speeds, and thus their control system would need the ability to process data rapidly and accurately. Triangle found their solution in ProSoft Technology’s in-rack PC56 module for the ControlLogix chassis, because the product has the flexibility of a Programmable Logic Controller and the speed of an industrial computer.
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Two OSB Miles utilize twenty RadioLinx Industrial Hotspots for their multi-million dollar crane anti-collision systems.
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16 flow computers from ProSoft Technology were installed in the Urucu province, the second largest natural gas reserve in Brazil with an average daily production of over five million cubic meters per day, and where 38 flow streams of natural gas are transferred to an oil treatment plant owned by Petrobras. With ProSoft Technology’s in-rack flow computers, flow rates and gas volumes could be calculated at the oil extraction plant directly over the backplane of their SLC 5/03 processors.
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In Badaah, Iraq, David Watts adds finishing touches to his work in the Nasiriyah Water Treatment Plant—his home away from home for nearly eight weeks. The largest water treatment facility in Southern Iraq, the Nasiriyah Plant supplies 10,000 cubic meters per hour of fresh drinking water to approximately three million Iraqis in Ad-Dawayah, Badaah, Al-Shatra, Al-Garaaf, Nasiriyah and Sug Ash Shuyuk.
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