Case Study: Proprietary Replacement PostedThursday, June 24,2021 at 9:13 AM 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 of the Proprietary application and recommend how it may be replaced or rewritten. T Read More
An Upgrade to Ignition Sepasoft "Perspective" OEE & Downtime Model PostedMonday, April 19,2021 at 9:21 AM 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. Read More
Reduce the execution and validation effort by standardizing https://ecssolutions.com/batch-boosters/reduce-the-execution-and-validation-effo... PostedThursday, July 9,2020 at 9:04 AM We can greatly benefit from understanding what others have done, standards encapsulate the current best approach as seen by an individual or team. Read More
Securing Your Intellectual Property https://ecssolutions.com/batch-boosters/securing-your-intellectual-property-prod... PostedThursday, April 30,2020 at 8:40 AM How secure is the intellectual property of your products?Many degrees of automation exist in manufacturing plants, but they all have a common requirement– specifying the activities and the order in which they need to occur as well as the key setpoints such as materials, amounts, tolerances, temperatures, durations, etc. Read More
Large Consumer Goods Case Study PostedTuesday, March 3,2020 at 9:42 AM ECS was hired to upgrade and replace a CIP control system in one of the manufacturing areas for a large consumer goods company. Read More
Bardstown Bourbon Company Case Study PostedSaturday, February 1,2020 at 10:36 AM ECS Solutions upgraded BBC’s existing HMI system from a C-More application to an Ignition application. The previous application had limited flexibility in terms of data collection, process history, and licensing structure. The major challenge was delivering a customized solution that utilized new technologies while also creating an architecture that could adapt to the end user’s changing needs. Read More
Mathematical Models help find spill values, material savings http://www.controleng.com/single-article/mathematical-models-help-find-process-s... PostedFriday, April 8,2016 at 2:28 PM More accurate material deliveries are obtained when the control system compensates for lag in the control and other effects by instructing a delivery to shut down just prior to reaching the target amount. The difficult question is, "How early?" This value is sometimes called a "pre-act value" or a "spill value." Read More
Service and Industrial Manufacturing Systems http://bit.ly/1MChbh2 PostedWednesday, March 23,2016 at 11:28 AM The idea of remote support for industrial manufacturing systems is not new. The IIoT and the convergence of IT and OT are providing better platform technology than has ever before been at our disposal. How might we exploit today’s technology more fully? Read More
The Case for Embedding Standards and Best Practices http://www.automationworld.com/case-embedding-standards-and-best-practices PostedWednesday, February 17,2016 at 10:03 AM Why should we keep industry standards, best practices, and experience in the hands of control system engineers? Why can’t we give a much wider group of practitioners the tools they need to do the job, while guiding them with embedded engineering experience? Read More
ECS is Integrator of the Year! http://www.controleng.com/single-article/ecs-solutions-inc-evansville-ind/fd49c3... PostedWednesday, February 17,2016 at 9:57 AM ECS Solutions was selected by the editors of Control Engineering and Plant Engineering magazines as Integrator of the Year in the below $10M gross revenue category. President Timothy S. Matheny states, "We are both proud and humbled by this award. Proud, for the recognition of our repeated success and humble as we assume the challenge of continuing to live up to this prestigious award, being one of the best of the best." Read More