Product News
February 9, 2022 | Product News
Looking for ways to improve your water and wastewater treatment systems?
Working smarter is easy with the right automation instrumentation. Process controls from Automation Service can help you meet your primary water and wastewater treatment plant goals: reduce cost and downtime, stay in compliance and increase operational efficiency.
Whether you’re looking to supplement your plant with a modernized process, retrofit parts of your existing systems, or do a complete overhaul, we can guide you towards the equipment and instrumentation that fits your budget, timeline, and application. You can count on our account executives, engineers, and technicians to give your unique project the attention it deserves.
February 4, 2022 | Product News
Metrix is the biggest supplier of monitoring systems for non-API618 Reciprocating Compressors in the world. Their suite of vibration sensors includes the ST5485E Velocity Transmitters monitoring Crankcase vibration, the IT6810 Transmitters monitoring Impact at the Crossheads and the MX2034 Proximity Transmitters monitoring average Rod Position at each of the piston rods. This sensor suite continues to serve customers well.
With the new 5580 Signal Conditioner and the SW5580 Switch, Metrix provides a modular and field configurable device that is perfect for monitoring Reciprocating Compressors efficiently and economically. You can expand the system on a throw-by-throw basis. Benefits include two channels able to measure Vibration Velocity at each end of the Crankcase, Acceleration and Impact on the Crosshead, and Rod Drop and Rod Vibration at the Piston Rod.
The only difference between the 5580 Signal Conditioner and the SW5580 Switch is the switch has two relays on each channel, either Solid State of Electromechnical contacts.
Watch the newly released 5580 and SW5580 Recip Animation to learn more about theses innovative applications.
February 3, 2022 | Product News
In recent years, environmental regulations have forced power generation plants to lower NOx emissions by burning a leaner flame in the combustor. As a result, many sites have experienced combustor pulsations that amplify as they move through the turbine. This pressure amplification produces significant vibration that can damage the turbine package.
In order to avoid or minimize the amount of damage to the turbine and peripheral components, it is essential to quickly detect the presence of these combustor pulsations and to alter the combustion process such as changing fuel splits.
AS-250 SpectralMon™ and AS-330R CombustionGuard™ protect your turbine from damage caused by combustion dynamics or pulsations.
The AS-250 SpectralMon provides advanced real-time monitoring and analysis with a powerful set of alarming criteria to detect changes in the dynamic signature of your critical machinery or process.
Once a dynamic event is detected, the system instantly informs the control system or other external devices and acts as a digital recorder by capturing important data before and after the event. This information can be used to alert the operator to change process settings or schedule maintenance.
The AS-330R CombustionGuard system is a product of over a decade of operational experience monitoring combustion dynamics in gas turbine engines. The system brings sophisticated monitoring algorithms, multiple control outputs, and instrument-grade signal processing to a robust embedded platform that is highly configurable, yet easy to maintain. Alta Solutions CDMS systems have logged over 10 million operational hours and the lessons learned through the deployment of these systems have been incorporated in the AS-330R CombustionGuard.
Benefits of the CDMS include early detection of combustor pulsations, reduce the severity of combustor pulsations, informing the DCS and operator of combustor events, track and correlate the history of pulsation events, simultaneous monitoring of all combustors, and storage of dynamic pressure data of events for post-processing.
Applications for the CDMS are steam and gas turbine monitoring, centrifugal and reciprocating compressor monitoring, cooling tower fan monitoring, wind turbine monitoring, cold rolling mill monitoring, pulp and paper mill monitoring, textile mill monitoring, and roll grinder monitoring.
February 2, 2022 | Product News
Are high MRO costs, unplanned shutdowns, and the need for technical assistance making it challenging to meet your production goals?
Tailor-fit process controls from Automation Service can help you keep all of your schedules on track including; production, maintenance and budget.
Over the years, Automation Service has partnered with oil and gas professionals spanning from maintenance engineers to I&E technicians and planners to help them exceed their production goals.
Whether you work in E&P sector, midstream processing, or downstream refining, our team is here to help. You’ll get unmatched technical support, custom engineering solutions, and access to a vast selection of instrumentation to suit your process control needs.
Plus, instrument delivery is lightening fast. In as little as two days, your order can be on its way to your facility, so unplanned downtime can be resolved swiftly.
February 1, 2022 | Product News
Schneider Electric’s comprehensive, software maintenance and technical support program, intended to help you extract and retain the maximum benefit from your Geo SCADA Expert investment, across the product’s lifecycle.
There are two options available for Customer FIRST Support, Standard and Premium.
Standard: Intended for smaller systems, and provides support during 8:30am and 6:30pm EST. Includes software version upgrades.
Premium: Intended for companies running high availability systems for whom downtime is expensive. 24/7 support for critical issues (reinstall, restore & relicense) and daytime support 8:30am to 6:30pm EST for all issues available.
Customer FIRST Support Agreements are tracked within the License Management system which is accessed by the technical support team. When a member calls, they are identified by their site ID number and provided full support if in a valid Customer FIRST Support Agreement.
The Customer FIRST Support Agreement price per annum is calculated as a percentage of the sum of the list price values of the licenses onsite. For Standard agreements it is 17% of the list price total, and for Premium agreements it is 20% of the list price total.
Schneider Electric aims to release major versions approximately every 812 months and monthly versions for most months as needed. A major version includes significant new features or capabilities. Standard and Premium members are eligible for major and minor releases.
