Category Archives: Control System Design

Asphalt Plant Control System

Electrical Control Panel for Local Asphalt Plant 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 … Continue reading

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Lighting Control Panel

Electrical Ballast Lighting Control Panel 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 … Continue reading

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The Many Advantages of Unitronics

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 … Continue reading

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PLC Programming Time Bombs

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 … Continue reading

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Metal Detectors Added to Quarry’s Electrical Control System

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… Our … Continue reading

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Unitronics V1210 Featured at Automation.com

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… Check out … Continue reading

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12″ Vision OPLC from Unitronics – V1210

Unitronics has just introduced the Vision V1210 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 … Continue reading

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AMPS Now Carries V570-57-T20B-J | Perfect for Food Service

AMPS is offering the latest Vision controller from Unitronics The V570-57-T20B-J is the same controller  as the standard V570-57-T20B with these additional advantages: IP66 Rating It has a fully flat fase plate These features are especially important in the food industry … Continue reading

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Unitronics V1040 Featured at ControlDesign.com

The Unitronics V1040 PLC was featured today at ControlDesign.com Look what popped up in my Google Reader today. This is what Control Design said about it: “Vision1040 PLC with a built-in HMI Operator Panel has a 10.4 in. display and … Continue reading

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Energy Management with Lovato Electric & AMPS Industrial Controls, Part III

Energy Saving for Industrial and Commercial Machines & Applications Clearly energy saving is a hot topic these days. Everyone has come to understand the importance of this issue for both economic and environmental reasons. Every company should employ a strategy … Continue reading

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