Motion Control and Automation

Below you will find white papers on topics involving process control and automation.

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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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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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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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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