We recently took on a project to fabricate and assemble 94 control panels for a large battery manufacturer. The company was adding safety modifications to its production process where new batteries are fed with an initial charge. The project required hole cutouts of stainless-steel enclosures. Stainless steel can be difficult to cut, as it is
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We recently took on a large project upgrading a metal forming operation at a Beryllium processing plant. The application utilizes two large DC motors, one to power the loading of raw material into the forming machine, and the other to power a bridle, ensuring the right tension, speed, and torque so the metal is formed to
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FrommConnect was recently contacted by a toll processing company to build an enclosure for two 480v three-phase variable frequency drives (VFDs) that would run a milling installation at a new facility in Virginia. Because FrommConnect is a full-service panel shop, we were able to manage the entire process from start to finish. We started by creating the electrical
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A mechanical contractor working for a large healthcare facility recently contacted us about one of the facility’s boilers not working. The breakdown could cause several operational problems. The boilers power the heating system and provide hot water for hospital functions such as sterilizing equipment. The programmable logic controller (“PLC”) which ran the boiler had
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We recently fabricated control panel enclosures for an OEM manufacturer of drives and controls used on cranes and hoists. The customer’s engineering team was looking to save time and labor costs by having us make predetermined cutouts for cooling units, panel meters, and various connection points on their 72” by 72” enclosures. Using our Steinhauer
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FrommConnect’s team helped a manufacturer of outdoor furniture and plastic pottery implement a safer and more efficient solution for its palletizing machine in its plastic flowerpot production process.
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A metal alloys manufacturer was having difficulty with its wastewater control platform software communicating with other technology platforms at its facility. They use a Walchem Process Controller to monitor and regulate various aspects of the wastewater treatment process, such as PH levels. Our team designed a FactoryTalk Optix application to serve as a communication gateway.
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A local power generation plant was using an outdated PLC 5 control system to manage critical processes at its water treatment plant. Processes include instrumentation and valve control for cooling turbines and managing wastewater. The decades old PLC 5 system had been discontinued by Rockwell Automation. It no longer received software updates and replacement parts had become
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A customer that manufactures aluminum cans for food and beverage processors approached us with a problem. Their emergency staff needed to receive email notifications when alarms were triggered by their oxidizer system.
FactoryTalk Optix Software Upgrade Contributes to Plant Safety Read More »
A local steel foundry contacted our team about a broken temperature panel on their electric arc furnaces. We developed a migration plan that involved merging their PLC and HMI components and upgrading them to Rockwell’s FactoryTalk Optix platform.
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