Insights That Drive Performance

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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WHAT IS BULK MATERIAL HANDLING

When people ask me, “What do you do?” I sometimes struggle to explain it in …

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Pneumatic Conveying System Design – “SIZE DOES MATTER”

You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” – Roy Schieder as Martin Brody in Jaws  Sometimes what …

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Case Study: Methodical Approach to a Systems Upgrade

  ECS Solutions, Inc. (ECS) recently helped a client with an upgrade by leveraging ECS’ methodical approach to system solutions.  Their client has three very similar processing areas known as casting pits.  Each was controlled by an independent GE 9030 PLC system, each with a main, and each controlled by a local BLUE Open Studio Full Story

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Magnum Systems Hires New Sales Organization Leader

Lenexa, KS – Mike Abare accepts the Technical Sales Manager role of Magnum Systems, a …

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Setting Up a Powder Transfer System for Success

There are so many considerations that go into setting up your powder transfer system for …

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Ignition by Inductive Automation Dataset Tags for Performant Dashboards

  How ECS Solutions uses dataset tags in Ignition by Inductive Automation, updated periodically by gateway timer scripts, to drive graphics on dashboard displays. This allows the dashboard to simply display the datasets rather than execute queries. This results in better overall performance of the gateway (queries are only running one time), faster load times Full Story

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Class-based Unit Coordination Utilizing Link Groups

Take advantage of product functionality to coordinate activities between units.   Class-based recipes allow a single recipe to be executed against all Units that meet the required functionalities. Phases required to perform inter-unit coordination can be used to transfer information from any source unit to any destination unit utilizing Phase linking functionality. Based on the Full Story

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