Insights That Drive Performance

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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Batch Forensics by ECS Solutions

The term forensics refers to the application of scientific knowledge to problems, especially scientific analysis, and data analysis of physical evidence.  In a plant environment, data and scientific analysis can be the key to discovering opportunities to improve the automation solution that exists, forensic tools can be implemented in all phases of the life cycle Full Story

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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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Decades of Reliable Packaging Machinery – L.D. Oliver Seeds

Customer: L.D. Oliver Seed Co., Inc. Location: Milton, VT Contact: Toby Larocque | Operations Manager …

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JTM Foods Case Study

JTM Foods challenged ECS Solutions and Blentech to create a SCADA system that included the full spectrum of process automation for their new state-of-the-art production facility. JTM wanted to expand their production capability with a new state-of-the-art facility featuring a Process Automated Kitchen. They wanted to track their process from the ERP Order through the Full Story

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Boosting Batch Performance at a Salad Dressing Plant

A well-known line of salad dressings was recently acquired by a major food manufacturer with the plan to establish a fully automated, paperless manufacturing process for the production. To do this efficiently and cost-effectively represented a significant challenge.

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Large Consumer Goods Case Study

THE CHALLENGE ECS was hired to upgrade and replace a CIP control system in one of the manufacturing areas for a large consumer goods company. The scope of work included a new control enclosure containing an upgrade from a SLC5 controller to a ControlLogix controller. The upgrade also consisted of all IO and connections within Full Story

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Bardstown Bourbon Company Case Study

The Challenge Bardstown Bourbon Company (BBC) is a Bourbon Distillery located in Bardstown Kentucky. Utilizing two mash cookers, 32 fermenters, two distillation stills, and nine cistern holding tanks, BBC produces a wide variety of high-quality whiskeys and bourbons.

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Manufacturing Digitalization That Works

Though digitalization is a process that is often seen as great, the benefits are not the same for everyone. Asking how digitalization is going to benefit your organization may be important to your digital future. Industry 4.0, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), connected enterprise, and smart manufacturing, among others, are all descriptive of applying digital Full Story

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