| Electrical control systems apply control systems | | | | react to changes in your business via statistical |
| engineering to the ability to maintain system | | | | analysis and automation is one of the more critical |
| performance to known parameters. Simply put, | | | | deciding factors in a business' profitability. |
| systems that have the ability to monitor and control | | | | 2) PLC Programming (Programmable Logic Controller |
| processes utilize the basic fundamentals of electrical | | | | Programming): Manufacturing automation would not |
| control systems. These include: circulation pumps, air | | | | exist without PLC programming. It's a digital computer |
| compressors, manufacturing systems, utility analysis | | | | used for electro-mechanical processes like machines |
| and metering, refrigeration plants and motor control | | | | on a factory line. Earlier automation systems used |
| panels. Electrical control systems are doubly beneficial | | | | thousands of individual relays and timers. In most |
| by saving money through modeling and controlling for | | | | cases, a PLC allows all of the relays and timers within |
| predictive behaviors as well as reducing applicable | | | | a factory to be replaced with a single controller. PLC |
| output which include carbon emissions. | | | | Programming can be found in paper machines and |
| But let's look more closely at three specific types of | | | | pulping processes, conveyor systems, bottling lines, |
| electrical control systems or processes that could | | | | web handling lines, packaging operations, mixing, |
| transform and change the way you do business: | | | | batching and blending and so much more. |
| 1) Industrial Automation Systems: Regardless of the | | | | 3) Risk Assessment: Most plant engineers, |
| type of manufacturing business you operate: discrete | | | | maintenance supervisors, operators and managers will |
| parts, batch or continuous process, management, | | | | ask themselves at some point: "how safe is my |
| information flow and control are vital to your business' | | | | machine". Although no machine is ever considered to |
| success. Automating important functions of your | | | | be completely safe, the answer should be a truly |
| business could show you immediate and long term | | | | unbiased assessment. A risk assessment consists of |
| financial gains. Much of your manufacturing business | | | | a comprehensive review of your machine which |
| could be automated increasing your productivity and | | | | analyzes operating and maintenance procedures, |
| ability to report immediately on various systems which | | | | identifiable risks (analyzed and categorized by |
| are inefficient. Imagine your manufacturing business | | | | established and accepted national/international |
| automating its inventory control systems, down time, | | | | standards), mitigations for these risks, and all the |
| production monitoring and reporting, database systems, | | | | information you will need to make your system meet |
| routing optimization and more. Being able to quickly | | | | the applicable standards. |