Category Archives: Control System Design

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

Posted on February 12, 2011 by AMPS

Energy Management Products from Lovato Electric Can be Purchased through AMPS Industrial Controls. This is part two of our series on energy management solutions from Lovato Electric. Last week’s installment can be found here. Shorter than last week’s post, this … Continue reading →

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Ethernet, Remote Monitoring & Wireless Control Emphasized by Automation.com

Posted on February 8, 2011 by AMPS

The point of this post is simply to point your attention to an excellent article recently featured at Automation.com. Last month Bill Lydon speculated about areas of growth and trends in the automation industry and I found it interesting that … Continue reading →

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

Posted on February 3, 2011 by AMPS

Energy Management products from Lovato Electric, Integrated by AMPS This is the first of what we hope to be a helpful, five-part series highlighting the Energy Management products from Lovato Electric. We believe energy management products could be a significant … Continue reading →

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Access Your HMI from the Cloud

Posted on January 31, 2011 by AMPS

Cloud computing has clearly surged recently. In the last two years I have gone from fearing a laptop crash because of my sloppy manual backups to using an automatic backup system in the cloud to actually using cloud-based software like … Continue reading →

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AMPS is Now Using VisiLogic 9.0.1 on New Projects

Posted on January 21, 2011 by AMPS

Unitronics has just released a new version of their VisiLogic programming software. As always, VisiLogic is downloadable anytime, free of charge. This one is known as version 9.0.1 and it has many new features we would like to mention: Bookmark … Continue reading →

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Electrical Control System for Custar Quarry

Posted on January 19, 2011 by AMPS

Installation Complete on AMPS Wireless Ethernet Control System We recently finished the installation and start-up on a control system for the Custar Stone Quarry project we discussed late last year. We are pleased to say that everything went very well … Continue reading →

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New V1040 Project with Sabco & Dogfish Head Brewing Company

Posted on December 9, 2010 by AMPS

Design of Brew-Magic Nano using V1040 starts next week… Next week Matt from AMPS will be traveling to meet with Sam Calagione and his head brewmaster, Floris. He’ll be traveling with the president and production engineer from Sabco to work … Continue reading →

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Westermo & Unitronics Play Well Together

Posted on November 18, 2010 by AMPS

Westermo’s RM-240 working with the Unitronics V570 Custer Quarry Project – RM-240, V570 & multiple V350s Integrated in the control system AMPS is working with Speiser Electric Company and Gerken Paving Products to update the entire control system running the … Continue reading →

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Machine Controls for Manufacturing Bombardier Spyder Seat Cushions

Posted on November 16, 2010 by AMPS

AMPS Case Study – Machine Controls & Electrical Control Panel for OEM machine A couple years ago we designed the PLC/HMI control system for a machine that manufactures seat cushions for the Bombardier Spyder. It was a fun project to … Continue reading →

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10.4″ Color Touch-Screen with PLC from Unitronics

Posted on November 11, 2010 by AMPS

Unitronics introduces the Vision 1040 (V1040) 10.4″ Color Touch-Screen with built-in PLC We are very excited about the soon-to-be-released V1040 for a number of reasons. First, we’ve had customers clamoring for a larger screen from Unitronics for years. Second, we’ve … Continue reading →

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