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Case Study: Taking the Bottleneck out of the Packaging Line

With continually increasing demand, a large, packaged food manufacturer sought to increase the capacity on their 15 packaging lines. Already producing 24/7, the packaging lines were restricted at the back end with palletizing and stretch wrapping. The existing configuration in the plant had four stretch wrappers and four palletizers being shared by the packaging lines Full Story

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Case Study: Ignition at Large Food Manufacturer

A large food manufacturer requested assistance from ECS Solutions in replacing a SCADA/HMI system that was unreliable and difficult to maintain. After consultation with us, they selected the Ignition platform from Inductive Automation.  Ignition provides a reliable platform that can be supported and developed internally or by system integrators. Ignition would provide the power to Full Story

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Case Study: Proprietary Replacement

For many years, a large nutrition company used a Proprietary program that was developed in-house, to manage the recipe database and to calculate the mass balances of the ingredients to meet the nutritional profile of each product. The application/program has become difficult to support and maintain. The customer approached ECS Solutions to undertake a review Full Story

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Case Study: Upgrades for a Large Taste & Nutrition Company

A large taste and nutrition company that produces flavored breadcrumbs requested assistance from ECS Solutions to install and upgrade a mixer associated with their breadcrumb line 1. The company had purchased the same type of mixer that is presently used in production but wanted the controls to operate in the same way as those in Full Story

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Case Study: An Upgrade to Ignition Sepasoft “Perspective” OEE & Downtime Module

A global consumer goods manufacturer hired ECS Solutions to evaluate and install an upgrade of an Ignition Application from Version 7.9 to Version 8.1. Version 7.9 was originally installed by ECS Solutions.  The overall objective for the company was to have a web-based client application that was independent of Java and based on HTML5.  The Full Story

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Case Study: Repurposing a Tank Farm

A large US food manufacturing company planned to repurpose a tank farm, originally used in the manufacture of ice cream.  The repurposing of the tank farm could be considered a greenfield installation, providing various oils to a new fryer system. The new designs would allow the storage and transfer of (1) newly delivered oil, (2) Full Story

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Case Study: Product Life Expiration Automation

All the production processes carried out in a particular process cell within a large, national food manufacturing company, must adhere to certain time guidelines, a consequence of the relatively short shelf lives of some of the ingredients. A batch process is monitored manually with operators following the batch through the stages and vessels involved.  The Full Story

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ECS Solutions & Swedish Match on Ignition Community Live

ECS President, Tim Matheny and Brad Logsdon, Business Analyst at Swedish Match joined Travis Cox, co-director of sales engineering for Inductive Automation for a recent interview about the journey to Ignition through business analysis. Learn how Swedish Match North America arrived at using the Ignition platform to solve a real business need, and how their Full Story

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Handling Cement – Dual Bulk Bag Unloading and Pneumatic Conveying System

Application Summary: Cement powder is transported via Barge to the Tampa Bay Port. Flatbed Semi-trucks …

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What is Bulk & Dribble Filling?

I was chatting on our website with a visitor today and they asked the question …

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