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Fires are a devastating event for any business. It can result in the loss of equipment, inventory, and even the facility itself. The aftermath of a fire can be challenging for any company as it seeks to rebuild and return to business as usual. This case study highlights how Automation Group collaborated with an architectural engineering company to support an international almond supplier after a fire destroyed their roasting line. The project team worked together on a tight schedule to replace and upgrade the almond supplier’s roasting system, leveraging PLC, HMI, networking, and control panel expertise.

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Outdated controls can pose many operational challenges. Companies that operate with outdated controls often experience frequent downtime, expensive or obsolete hardware replacement parts, or few personnel with knowledge to perform maintenance on legacy systems. These challenges were faced by a long-running California winery who needed to modernize the controls for their red fermentation process. The winery needed to address how a system upgrade would impact their operations and engaged Automation Group to create a PLC and SCADA upgrade solution.

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When is the best time to upgrade a decades-trusted PLC system? This was the challenge for a global supplier of spice ingredients. Their Allen Bradley PLC-5 system was commissioned over 25 years ago and, while it performed well for many years, the outdated platform began experiencing constraints. The obsolete equipment was limiting network connections. This urged the global spice supplier to seek a system integrator that could provide timely PLC migration support using the latest technology available. Automation Group was recruited to modernize their obsolete PLC system to a more IIOT friendly platform.

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Distilled spirits have complex processing needs. To stay competitive, spirit producers often turn to batch processing and blending solutions to improve their operational agility; however, this can be compromised as their systems become outdated. This was the case for a global leader in the spirits industry who needed to update their existing blending system to better support recipe management, faster quality verification, and adaptive ingredient delivery. The global spirits leader engaged Automation Group and their industry partner Barnum Mechanical Inc. to provide a turnkey solution given their collective process design and control system integration expertise.

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