Municipal water and wastewater processing is a vital part of any community infrastructure. Access to clean water is considered a basic human right, but without efficient methods of processing water and wastewater, the costs of providing access to the community can be difficult to shoulder. This is especially true for small towns like Wolfforth, Texas, which was struggling under the cost of an expensive SCADA system that often required maintenance and overtime employees for manual operation of the water processing facilities. However, thanks to Lubbock Electric Co., Wolfforth was able to adapt their system to a secure, reliable SCADA architecture that offered cost efficiency, less manual involvement, and far greater reliability.

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The treatment of water and wastewater is so critical to a community, and water utilities play a vital role in a high quality municipal infrastructure. There is tremendous pressure placed on systems integrators in the water/wastewater treatment market to deliver a reliable and cost effective solution for water treatment.

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No machine operator wants to see the result of a machine error after the fact. The ability to monitor a process as it happens and guard against problems is a cornerstone of an efficient production line. That’s why the well known Japanese manufacturer of the machine developed for Toyoda Gosei (TGKY), contacted Schlemmer associates to develop an application that would assist operators of a plastic injection molding facility in Lebanon, Kentucky, monitor their injection molding process in real-time.

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The dying and knitting of yarn for textiles is a process that has existed for thousands of years. This process has long been machine automated, but with advanced SCADA software that provides an intuitive development environment for robust monitoring and data acquisition applications, it’s possible to follow that process through every step from raw material to finished product. Using a SCADA system that gathers data from multiple textile stenter machines, Ekoten Textile, located in Izmir, Turkey, is able to record and compile data from every stage of their textile production process. With this data, Ekoten Textile can compare everything from output by machine, to the quality of the finished product.

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Any facility is only as reliable as its power source. The equipment we depend on to ensure we have electrical power must be robust, and reliable. That’s why the equipment produced by Thomson Technology is so critical to power generation infrastructure, as is the HMI that connects those systems to their human operators. When Thomson Technology began to research a better development platform for their flagship Series 2400 switchgear, they needed to find a product that would be as reliable as the equipment they produce.

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