Chocolate Depositor Line
Control System Upgrade A local candy company had a depositing line that needed to be upgraded. The line was controlled by three servo drives controlled by an Allen-Bradley 1394-GMC controller, and the depositor had four servo drives controlled by a second 1394-GMC controller. Supervisory control and interfacing to the rest […]
Complete Coal Plant
A coal company purchased an idled coal plant. When review of the existing controls revealed severe deficiencies, the asked WBA to quote a complete plant upgrade. WBA developed a new control system to interface with their existing Motor Control Center (MCC) and existing plant equipment. Due to the existing plant […]
Plastic Film
A Plastic Film company purchased a used Alpine 5-Layer blown film extrusion line. Unfortunately, when the system was installed (after lengthy delays), the main PLC (Siemens S-545) was no longer operational. Although WBA could connect to the PLC, the memory fault could not cleared, and it could not be programmed. […]
Presses
Pipe Manufacturer Needed to Improve Productivity and Reduce Downtime of their U and O Presses. U Press takes a flat plate of steel (Up to 10’ wide by 40’ long, 1” thick) and bends it into a “U” shape. This U is than transferred into the O Press, which bends […]
Pumping System
A coal company was taking over an idled mine. The mine had significant water issues and the company needed to pump water out to mine the coal. Failure of the pump system could lead to flooding and damage to expensive equipment. WBA provided the control system to control the pumps […]
Salt Drying
A Salt Company need to upgrade the controls on their salt dryer. The drives were beginning to fail and the needed better reliability. WBA provided a triple door main cabinet that housed the drives and plc. This panel included: 200 hp frequency drive Two 75 hp frequency drives 60 hp […]
Steel Plate Edge Planer
Edge Planing System for Large Diameter Pipe Manufacturing Plant. System Squares and Finishes Sides and Ends of Plate in the First Step in Manufacturing Large Diameter Pipe. 1000 Amp Main Feed 300 hp DC Motor for Planing Sides of Plates, Replace Motor Generator with DC Drive 75 hp DC Motor […]
Tube Cutting Line Modicon Controls
Upgrade of Angstrom PLC and Optronics Motion Controller to Quantum PLC and Lexium Motion Control Major System Components 2 Lexium Motion Controllers for Tube Positioning and Cutting Tool Control 4 Servo Drives for Cutting Tools 20 Vector Drives for Tube Length Control 5 Frequency Drives for general conveyor control Two […]
Tube Cutting Line with NDT, A-B Controls
Replace Siemens S/5 PLC and Optronics Motion Controller for Tube Cutting Line and Non-Destructive Test (NDT) Line. Line Functionality – 2 Cutting Heads with servo control for cut and chamfer axes – 4 DC Drives for cutting head conveyors – position accuracy of -0 to +3 mm – Laser encoder […]
Water Municipality
WBA was asked to upgrade a water system for a municipality. When WBA Automation walked in they said “Please don’t touch anything, we are not sure what everything is?” WBA removed all unneeded equipment, upgraded their control system and added remote HMI viewing, Web based SCADA and the ability to […]