Case Studies
Case study: Manufacturing facility electrical design
This example of a manufacturing plant, lab and office building power distribution project walks through the electrical engineering decisions
Packaging automation integration advice from Avanceon
Case study questions and answers: Seven bakery lines converge in one packaging area that fills 20 cases per minute. Controllers needed replacing and programming, and the network needed updating. System integrators checked and tested code as they went so the project could be completed over a three-day weekend.
Packaging automation integration advice from Stone Technologies
Packaging, records, raw materials, were updated and integrated and automated across eight facilities.
Do-it-yourself collaborative robotic project
Case study: Collaborative robots at a thermal wrap manufacturing company deliver a zero-defect rate while doubling production output. Installation, integration and use has been a do-it-yourself (DIY) project.
Motion controller gives old presses new life
Case study: Retrofit controller on four hydraulic presses used a new programmable logic controller (PLC) to control the moving platen and the levelling cylinders would be controlled by a new electrohydraulic motion controller.
Managing remote monitoring
Remote management and monitoring applications help keep operations up and running. External remote management and monitoring teams provide specialized operational knowledge to help with automation and control system issues.
Case study: DCS migration challenges and obstacles for process manufacturer
An industrial utility service company in Kentucky needed to upgrade and migrate its distributed control system (DCS), which came with a few challenges.
Case study: Preventing surge in a medium-size process gas compressor
The following case study highlights a plant's struggle to prevent surge while using a four-impeller, 1.6 MW integrally geared centifugal gas compressor. The problem and three solutions are discussed.
Pre-configured software templates — are they effective?
Manufacturing Operations Management systems look to specific industry needs
A road map to reliability
How Premier Silica's Brady operation used evaluation to improve plant performance.