Motion Control and Automation

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

By changing inefficient pneumatic and hydraulic systems to electric ones, companies can be more productive, flexible, and efficient in their production.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.