Lead Your Facility into the Modern World with a Main Automation Contractor The industrial world as we know it is changing – fast. Legacy system obsolescence, cybersecurity vulnerabilities and innovative smart technologies, such as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), digital twin/thread, cloud and mobile computing,
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Object-Orientation for Automation Design A modernization project utilizing smart and emerging technologies requires a good holistic design to be successful. When that design also incorporates a proper degree of modularity and standards-based components, the upgrade will be faster, more agile, and provide a foundation to better
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Five chemical units were utilizing Honeywell TDC 2000/PMX, a 1980s-vintage legacy control system. Because this system was soon to be no longer supported by the vendor, the owner was faced with a massive project to upgrade the systems to Honeywell Experion PKSTM. The owner chose MAVERICK Technologies as its migration partner for this successful, multi-year project.
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Travis Giebler, Technology Team Manager at MAVERICK Technologies speaks about the benefits and work process around state-based control.
The “Flux Capacitor” may have made time travel possible in the movie Back to the Future, but the control loop is what makes industrial automation possible. The humble control loop is the foundation of the distributed control system (DCS), and it does its job very well.
A planned approach to I&C Turnaround Projects….
It is a typical start to the day for the facility operator. A few alarms need handling, but all systems appear to be running well on site and out in the field. Suddenly, an alarm pops up on the human-machine interface (HMI) display – the compressor
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The 1960s animated sitcom character George Jetson had an essential job at Spacely Space Sprockets, Inc. His job was to ‘push the button.’ The automation system did the rest. While we aren’t in the George Jetson era, we are fast approaching the age of autonomous automation
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Automation projects, by their very nature, have risks. Everyone has a war story or two about a project that went off the rails, blew the budget, blew the schedule, or didn’t do what it was intended to do. The startup and commissioning part of the project,
Remote monitoring technology is not new. However, due to technological advancements (e.g., open systems, wireless technology, smart manufacturing devices, high-speed network connections, etc.) over the past several years, the ability to remotely manage and monitor critical automation and control systems in real time has come to
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