ROBOTIC INTEGRATION & END OF ARM TOOLING DESIGN
Executive Summary: Kredit Automation and Controls completely retrofitted the controls on a system that produces molds for casting. The customer manufactures turbine engine components. The old control system was a functional…
PRINTING BARCODES DIRECTLY FROM A PLC PROGRAM
Executive Summary: The L-Shear uses servos to position large laminated copper sheets under a shear to cut them into precise sizes used for circuit boards. One goal of a recent control system retrofit was to allow bar code…
TUBE AND CONDUIT MATERIAL HANDLING AND BUNDLING
Executive Summary: Kredit Automation was contracted to retrofit the PLC and HMI on a line that bundles tubes coming off the fabrication line. (Tubes are made by roll forming cut-to-length steel sections into a tube and…
AEROSPACE AND CHEMICAL PROCESSING
Photo By Sanjay Acharya Executive Summary: In 2011 Kredit Automation was contracted to upgrade the controls on a system with two important processes: Fluoride Ion Cleaning and Chemical Vapor Deposition. This important…
INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT SUPERFUND SITE
Executive Summary: Kredit Automation & Controls did a retrofit to upgrade the controller and operator interface at the Indian Bend Wash area superfund site. This is a treatment facility that removes volatile organic…
EXTRUSION PRESS CONTROL SYSTEM RETROFIT
Executive Summary: Kredit Automation has done over a dozen aluminum extrusion press control system retrofits. Extrusion presses last for decades and periodically need a new control system. Protection against obsolesce and…
EMERGENCY CONTROL SYSTEM REPLACEMENT
Executive Summary: A fire destroyed the entire control system for the melting and holding furnaces at the cast house plant of an aluminum extruder. Panels, controllers, terminations, operator interfaces…everything destroyed.…
BATCH PROCESSING AND BUILDING MATERIALS MIXING
Executive Summary: Kredit Automation was contracted to retrofit the PLC and HMI (and the software programs for both) on a batch process that combines solid and liquid materials from silos and tanks to produce building…
FURNACE COMBUSTION CONTROL
Executive Summary: A new control system was needed for the melting and holding furnaces at a casting operation. The old one had been destroyed by fire and so the design-build cycle was compressed to weeks. The old controls…