Material Handling & Logistics
Controls for Bulk Fertilizer for Intermodal Distribution Terminal in Fairless Hills, PA
Challenge:
Provide controls for the expansion of a bulk fertilizer warehousing system with a system of conveyors and diverters that transports bulk ship-borne urea to storage domes which can then be distributed to rail or truck.
Solution:
We created the controls scope, provided the hardware, control enclosures, touchscreens, instrumentation, documentation, software for this system. With more than 500 IO, fiber ethernet was used for remote IO and dispersed HMI stations because of the large geographic area.
For this solution, we used:
- ControlLogix PLC
- Four stations FactoryTalk View ME
- 1769 Remote IO
- Allen Bradley MCCs (with drives, soft starters, and starters)
- Zyxel hardware for Ethernet
Controls for Sort Line Expansion for Construction Materials Recycler in Philadelphia, PA
Challenge:
Supply controls hardware and software to control the functionality of conveyors, gates, elevator, functional safety, and sequence of a sortation process while exchanging data with the customer database via a PLC SQL module.
Solution:
The control system communicates with weigh scales, bar code scanners, cameras, supervisory database, safety controller, touchscreen monitors, and forklift mounted tablets. Our team built and provided a controls enclosure with extra room for future additions. Data is collected and tracked between sources and destinations, and still images of waste for LEED compliance are collected for the demolition contractor and client.
For this solution, we used:
- Rockwell ControlLogix and IO
- Softing SQL transactional manager
- Jokab safety hardware
- FT View ME and HIS screens for the HMI
- Cognex cameras were used for bar code for barcode scanning
- Axis cameras were used for product recording
- The PLC digitally interfaced with multiple Avery scales
- Remote HMI tablets for forklifts were supplied and integrated