CASE STUDIES:
Bradbury Company, Inc.
As a provider of coil processing machines to manufacturers, Bradbury relies on Kasa to be an extension of their staff, allowing flexibility in their growth. Kasa’s engineers help with establishing industrial standards and installing Bradbury’s high speed production lines at their customers’ locations.
What makes this relationship even more valuable to Bradbury is the one-stop-shop. Teaming controls and panel work with metal fabrication allows Bradbury to streamline certain aspects of their business, resulting in an increase to Bradbury’s profitability.
Packaging Company
Keeping track of 500 rolls of inventory was a daunting task for a packaging company that provides an integrated flexible packaging converter that services the Food, Beverage, Medical, Personal Care, Household, Pet Food, Agricultural Chemical, Lawn & Garden and other Specialty markets.
Their computerized “black box” was quickly becoming a black hole. Support for their equipment’s black box was non-existent. Nobody could get into it and look at it, much less upgrade it to meet the needs of today, much less their expansion needs of tomorrow.
The company asked Kasa Industrial Controls to come up with a design and implementation plan that would address their needs.
The purpose of this project was to replace the existing Visual Basic operator interface. The existing system had a PC communicating with an Allen Bradley SLC 500 via USB to DH485 communication adapter. Kasa Industrial Controls replaced the existing PC with a ControlLogix PLC and PanelView plus.
An intuitive interface allowing the operator to operate the system, not an interface burdened with unnecessary graphics clutter was also created.
Kasa Industrial Controls worked with the client to complete the project on-time and within budget.
AgMark Expedites Operations at Grain Terminal
Along with experiencing increased business in recent years, AgMark now handles soybeans and corn in addition to traditional wheat and milo. Each truck must be efficiently unloaded and segregated based upon crop type. To keep pace with busy operations, in 2006 AgMark decided to expand their facility by adding two steel storage bins and a third receiving pit. This expansion also included an equipment upgrade to better automate their operations. Now, the company’s automated operations are handled by a new control system designed by Kasa Industrial Controls, based in Salina, Kansas.
“The control system we created had to handle each of these individual incoming and outgoing areas. It also would be in charge of aeration and conveyors for relocating and storing grain,” said Heath Roker, sales engineering at Kasa Industrial Controls. “This new system improved the facilities automated processes. It also ensured their operations could be efficiently and safely controlled—and shut down, if needed.”
Kasa’s control system allows AgMark to run the facility with a limited number of personnel. It also accommodates multiple processes at once. Personnel can load a railcar in one location and unload grain at a truck pit elsewhere simultaneously.