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Thermal Loop Solutions: A Path to Improved Performance, Sustainability and Compliance in Heat Treatment

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A thermal loop solution is a closed loop system with several essential components, including an electrical power supply, power controller, heating element, temperature sensor and process controller. NADCAP heat treatment accreditation ensures suppliers meet industry standards and best practices for heat treatment processes.

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TCO Tipping Point: Revealing the Real Value

i4.0 today

Avoid circling the downtime drain For most processors, downtime is the single largest source of lost production time. Every product that comes off the line after processing and finishing has a value attached to it. Additionally, equipment that is poorly maintained will likely breakdown more frequently.

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Turnkey approach for automating first-of-a-kind red sorghum extract process

Control Engineering

Learn how pre-existing hardware, field devices and other equipment can be integrated into a new plant or facility. System integration insights When kicking off a project with a key process control scope, the state of the art of the process technology should be as well known by the team as possible.

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Building on analytics foundations to improve operations

Control Engineering

OPC is the shortened name for OLE (object linking and embedding) for Process Control, which was based on Microsoft Windows COM (component object model) technology. Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) monitors production results against production goals while predictive analytics detect impending equipment failures. .