Author: Kelly Ye

ECS Continues to Grow!

    Please say hello to Brian Grossman, Systems Technician 1!   Brian joined ECS in 2022 with 8 years of professional experience that includes AC/DC control circuitry, blueprint interpretation, hardware diagnostics, wiring schematics, soldering, relays and pressure switches, fork truck, and programming. Brian obtained his BS in Electronics Engineering from Excelsior College in 2019. Full Story

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2022 ECS Scholarship Award

  Congratulations to Noah Smith for being selected as the 2022 ECS Scholarship Winner! ECS Scholarship recipients demonstrate outstanding high school leadership and academic achievements with promise in the Engineering Industry. Noah will be attending Indiana University in the fall. Best of luck in your studies and as you pursue your career, Noah! Find out more Full Story

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ECS Continues to Grow!

  ECS is pleased to welcome Santiago Gonzalez! Santiago is joining our team as a Systems Engineer 3, bringing over 30 years of expertise in industrial process controls and experience in numerous industries worldwide. After doing contract work for ECS since 2018, we are thrilled to have him on board full-time. Growing up in Spain, Full Story

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ECS Earns Sepasoft Gold Certificate for the Batch Procedure Module

ECS is proud to have earned a Sepasoft gold certificate for the Batch Procedure Module! The Batch Procedure Module adds batch processing, continuous processing, and general procedure control, based on the ISA-88 Standard, to the Ignition® Platform. Recipe management is simplified by combining sequence control with parameter values in an intuitive graphical user interface. Real-time Full Story

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ECS Eliminates Bottlenecks with Flexible Packaging Solution

    Industrial systems are generally designed with a perfect balance between product manufacturing and packaging output.  Changes to output requirements, product makeup, or packaging requirements frequently create imbalances known as process bottlenecks.  The job of process and industrial engineers is to identify the slow points within the complete process and develop solutions to eliminate Full Story

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ECS Continues to Grow!

We are so excited to welcome Rich Crow, Systems Technician II, to the ECS family! With over 40 years of experience in the engineering and technical fields, Rich’s extensive background will prove to be an asset to ECS and to our clients. After graduating from ITT with an AS in Electronics Engineering, he spent the Full Story

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Surviving the Great Resignation

    A rapidly decreasing number of technical personnel are available who can install and maintain the higher-end equipment used in manufacturing today.  “The great resignation and/or retirement” movement, along with changes associated with the recent pandemic landscape, has sent many highly qualified workers to the exits in search of new and often altogether different Full Story

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ECS Solutions named on of Indiana’s “Best Places to Work” for a third year in a row!

  ECS Solutions was recently named as one of the Best Places to Work in Indiana. This 17th annual program was created by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce. The statewide survey and awards program is designed to evaluate participating organizations and honor those with the highest levels of employee satisfaction and engagement in the workplace. Full Story

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Automation of Manual Processes

Imagine a situation where your plant floor employees require less training to become fully functional for operations.  Also imagine a situation where your employees can be flexibly interchanged on different equipment and operations instead of relegated to a single machine, cell, or role.  Now imagine this is done in a way that employees feel engaged Full Story

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Implementation of a Data Pump with Ignition by Inductive Automation

There are many tools on the market for historizing process data. These tools typically treat each point of data individually when historizing, which works great for trend screens and instrumentation reporting. However, it is often desirable to log a “set” or “group” of data together, associating many data points with a single event. This use Full Story

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