AMPS Is On Track to Build a Record Number of Electrical Control Panels in 2012
Hello everyone. Just a quick post to mention 2012 has been a great year for AMPS Industrial Controls Corp. We’ve picked up several new customers through the internet and word-of-mouth. Our good reputation appears to be spreading and it has resulted in a record number of electrical control panels built in the first half of this year.
Year to date (and today is significant because it marks the halfway point of 2012) we have built and shipped 572 electrical control panels. Most of these are for our OEM machinery customers and they utilize control systems designed by us. We are excited to see this growth and look forward to the rest of 2012.
Don’t hesitate to give us a call to discuss your application. We can help you determine the most cost-effective way to build your electrical control panels.
AMPS Industrial Controls Corp designs and builds control panels for a wide variety of industries but, like most companies, we have a handful of markets where we’ve focused more energy than others. Because we’ve had a very good, long-term relationship with a local asphalt production company, one of those industries is paving and material handling.
It’s very common for new customers to find us via the good old world wide web. These customers are usually out of town (out of the Toledo, Ohio area, that is) so we hammer out all the details through phone and email conversations. This month one of these new customers came along and they were a real pleasure to work with. Continue reading →
Unitronics recently sent us this list of reasons to consider their product. We’ve discussed most of these points on other occasions but they seem worth repeating because of how applicable they are to so many of our customers. The Vision series, in particular, is really a great product for a wide variety of applications. AMPS has extensive experience integrating them into control systems and machine controls. We would like to highlight point number four, also, as it is especially important to our OEM customers.
We’ve had many requests over the years to put time bombs into the PLC programs that run machine controls and control system design. These time bombs are usually requested by our OEM customers who want recourse when a bill goes unpaid.
We have resisted most of these requests because there are laws against such practices but… this article sheds a little more light on what is and is not legal. Interesting read for anyone who manufactures and sells equipment that’s run by software, which is to say, almost everyone.
Protective Lexan Covers are Now Available for All Unitronics Vision Controllers
Even though the Unitronics Vision controllers are very economical, there’s no sense damaging them when you can now easily apply a durable protective cover.
We now offer a self-adhesive Lexan protective film custom cut for each Vision controller from Unitronics. This includes the V130, V350, V280, V290, V530, V560, V570, V1040 and V1210.
These protective covers are resistant to the following chemicals:
Congratulations! You have been chosen as ‘Unitronics Distributor of the Year’ for 2011. You were chosen because of your dedication and hard work towards promoting Unitronics. Enclosed you will find a small token of our appreciation. Please know that your efforts have not gone unnoticed. You are a pleasure to work with and we look forward to a very successful 2011.
Best regards,
Holly Dillon
Regional Marketing Manager
We also appreciate everyone at Unitronics and their dedication to customer service and providing a high quality product at a competitive price. They’re also continuously working to provide new, cutting-edge products. We’ll continue working to promote the product because we believe it is usually the best solution for our customers and their PLC/HMI control needs.
AMPS has been standing behind the Unitronics Vision PLCs for about ten years and we have designed many control systems around them. Our engineers prefer to program using the VisiLogic platform above any other. We, too, are looking forward to many years working with Unitronics.
Interfacing Unitronics Vision Controllers with Tectron Metal Detectors
For the first time, we were out at the Custar Stone Quarry under pleasant weather conditions. Until now, it’s always either been below freezing or raining. Today, however, was quite nice…
The customer has been very pleased with our work but wanted to add a metal detection feature to prevent scrap metal from being dumped into one of their crushers. Crushing equipment can easily pulverize large rocks but, strangely, has a very difficult time with metal. The equipment is very expensive so it makes sense to invest in metal detection equipment and reduce wear on the crusher. Metal detectors from Tectron Engineering Company were chosen for the job.
These metal detectors were very nice and easy to use. They were programmable for sensitivity and time delays and various other features which made the PLC programming changes very simple. In the end, our customer had a nice new feature with minimal down time.
This time of integration is a specialty of AMPS Industrial Controls. Contact us any time to discuss your application.
The new V1210 OPLC from Unitronics has been featured at Automation.com
This is the same controller we mentioned yesterday. Hopefully the latest member of the Vision family from Unitronics will be making a splash all over the place…
This controller is a perfect fit for the food industry- with its IP66 rating, the V1210 is ideal wherever spray/wipe down applications apply. A wide variety of on board I/O options can be added by simply snapping a module onto the back of the PLC. Expandable up to 1024 I/O, these configurations include digital and analog inputs and outputs, high-speed I/O, PT100/Thermocouple capabilities, and weight measurement. They can be mounted locally or remotely, up to 1000m from the controller. This power-PLC is equipped with a built-in USB programming port, recipe capabilities, Micro SD card memory storage for data logging and back up, complete PLC cloning and more.
