Chopper Valve Guidance: A Case Study
Submitted by Sri Gavini
An engineering firm reached out to Valin to help support a major California refinery during its turnaround process. During the course of their work, the engineering firm discovered the refinery needed new emergency safety shut-off valves (also known as chopper valves) as part of their regeneration process. At this point, the firm reached out to our team for guidance, so we held a strategic session with all interested parties.
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Improving Production Efficiency with IO-Link
A prominent manufacturer of irrigation products aimed to improve the efficiency and reliability of its production line for the irrigation sprinkler heads. Learn how Valin's solution helped the customer improve production efficiency, reduce maintenance costs, and enhance overall operational reliability.
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Streamlining Production with WAGO Solutions
A high-volume manufacturer of custom electrical cabinets for the car wash and solar power industries needed a more efficient production process. Learn how Valin's solution enabled the customer to streamline their production process, reduce assembly times, and increase operational efficiency.
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Boosting Efficiency and Reliability in Carwash Operations with Mitsubishi D700 Series VFDs
A leading custom control panel provider for the carwash industry faced significant challenges in maintaining operational efficiency for their customer’s carwash systems. Learn how Valin's solution helped the customer to overcome supply chain challenges, reduce downtime, and improve energy efficiency.
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How Yokogawa Took a Plant from Semi-Automated to Autonomous
Submitted by Yokogawa
The next generation control technology using reinforcement learning-based AI ( FKDPP) will autonomize areas that could not be automated with existing control methods while ensuring safety and improving productivity. FKDPP is a disruptive innovation that allows for a different dimension of control, particularly in such areas. This AI technology can be applied in the energy, materials, pharmaceuticals, and many other industries.
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Energy Efficiency for Industrial Pumps and Fans from Parker
Submitted by Parker Hannifin
Industries are looking for ways to reduce harmful emissions with the goal of reducing environmental impact and promoting sustainable production processes. Parker AC Drives cuts energy consumption for pumps and fans in the industrial market.
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Manufacturer Machine Safety Challenge Averted with Valin Pneumatics Solutions
Submitted by Sri Gavini & Michael Reynaud
A leading manufacturer was facing a safety challenge on one of their critical pieces of equipment which is part of their manufacturing process. This equipment demands a fail-safe pneumatic redundant solenoid valve mechanism. Find out how Valin's pneumatic solution solved their problem.
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Semi Fab Eliminates Air Leaks with Easy to Install Manifold Retrofit Kits
One of Valin's semi fab customers had an all-too-common problem with their pneumatic manifoldsair leaks. Learn how they eliminated this problem with Valins Pneumatic Manifold Retrofit Kit upgrade.
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Medical Device Mfr. Upgrades Actuators and Saves $900,000 Per Year
A large medical device manufacturer in Southern California was faced with a dilemma.A machine they relied on to manufacture most of a particular product was soon to be obsolete. Valin was able to provide them with a solution that saved them hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
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Semi Fab Reduces Wafer Scrap with Pneumatic Manifold Retrofit Kits
Valin helped NXP Semiconductors reduce their wafer scrap costs with its Endura Pneumatic Manifold Retrofit Kits. See how it was done and how much they saved.
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Manufacturer Increases Efficiencies Using Remote Access
Submitted by Tom Trinh || Valin Corporation
A manufacturer of precision metering mix, dispensing and spray systems was looking for a more efficient way to handle upgrading and troubleshooting their systems at individual customer locations. They were looking for a solution to connect the systems to HMI's and PLC's remotely. Learn more.
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Auto Manufacturer Avoids Critical Line Down Situation
Submitted by Fernando Corona and Sean Julian || Valin Corp.
A global automotive components company was having issues with their vertically integrated equipment used to manufacture seating and interior systems. We assured the auto manufacturer that we had a technical specialist and an application engineer on-site to troubleshoot the issue. Learn more.
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Chemical Dispensing Company Decreases Control Integration Time
Submitted by Ray Marquiss || Valin Corp.
A customer that designs cost-effective chemical dispense system contacted Valin for automation assistance. Valin's application engineering and sales team showed the engineers at the company how we could save them money and speed up their delivery time. Lean more.
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Medical Device Mfg. Reduces Labor Costs with Microcontroller
Submitted by Devon Hyatt || Valin Corp.
A medical device manufacturer wanted to upgrade a legacy water circulation system for an MRI machine that they build and sell. After reviewing the system, Valin's automation engineers recommended using a microcontroller with an Ethernet HMI touchscreen display, and a single power supply. Learn more.
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Valin Fully Automates Manual Filament Winding Machine
Submitted by Kent Martins || Valin Corp.
A company in the spaceflight industry purchased a filament winding machine and was trying to manufacture composite pressure vessels that had a compound curvature. The solution they found was to create an additional axis that could be rotated in such a way that the material would no longer fold over.
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Water Dispensing System Reduces Testing Time for Food Mfg
Submitted by Tom Trinh || Valin Corporation
A supplier of ultra-pure fluid heating systems was looking to diversify their product portfolio to offer a new solution to the food and beverage industry. Their challenge was to develop a microbiology media preparation system for food manufacturing QA/QC labs to use in conducting pathogens testing.
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Semiconductor Co Drastically Reduces Chemical Cooling Time
Submitted by Cory Calderon || Valin Corporation
A large semiconductor chip manufacturer approached our customer with a unique challenge and opportunity in cooling the highly concentrated acids and caustic chemicals used in production. Learn about the solution that helped increase the chip manufacturer's throughput and the safety of their staff.
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Semiconductor Supplier Improves Efficiency of Tool Change Outs
Submitted by Josh Shearer || Valin Corporation
A leading supplier of semiconductor-based solutions was looking for ways to improve the efficiency of routine maintenance change outs for their clean room tools. They were searching for something that would allow the technicians to be more efficient and organized while working in the clean room.
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Get More Productivity, Flexibility & Efficiency in Production
Submitted by Corey Foster & IAI
By changing inefficient pneumatic and hydraulic systems to electric ones, companies can be more productive, flexible, and efficient in their production.
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Flexible & Powerful Solution to Modbus TCP to Old SCADA Issue
Submitted by Corey Foster
Occasionally customers want to collect information outside of their SCADA systems due to complexity, processing power, or in this case, limited memory being available. By using simple tools, many tasks can be performed outside of an existing network or supervisory system.
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Benefit of Adapting Serial-Based Controllers to Ethernet
Submitted by Corey Foster
By adapting serial-based controllers to Ethernet-based networks, customers can lay the hardware groundwork required to take advantage of the Industrial-Internet-of-Things (IIoT) software concepts, allowing quicker response times and proactive maintenance strategies with predictive maintenance
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Sensors on Wireless Networks Will Help Take Advantage of IIoT
Submitted by Corey Foster
By putting sensors on a network, their information can be transmitted to any location the information is needed. With this connection in place, software functionality can then be implemented at the supervisory level to decide what to do with that information. Learn more.
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Industry 4.0 Intelligent Workstations Help Increase Production
Submitted by Corey Foster & Bosch Rexroth
An Industry 4.0 Workstation is a semi-automated workstation that provides a link between the real world and the virtual world. It is a versatile solution that enables a highly efficient use of resources, great planning, reliability and short throughput times. Learn more.
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The Benefits of Upgrading to Electronic Camming
Submitted by Corey Foster & Kent Martins
Valin assisted a customer in upgrading their winding machine to replace a manually controlled axis with a motorized one, allowing them better controlled motion synchronized to one of the existing axes.
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