by Staff Writer | Nov 19, 2015 | Aircraft, Control Systems, CSI, Furnaces and Ovens, Programming
THE MYSTERY ACES routinely maintains a legacy oven at an aircraft plant that is used to cure composite parts for long periods at relatively low temperatures. Recently the customer had been having issues with identifying serial numbers for aircraft parts, which were...
by Staff Writer | Nov 19, 2015 | Control Systems, CSI, Oil and Gas, Programming
THE MYSTERY A purchaser and transporter of crude oil products contacted ACES with a challenge relating to one of their LACT stations. A LACT unit (Lease Account Custody Transfer) is the critical control system in an oil pumping station, which measures and regulates...
by Staff Writer | Nov 12, 2015 | CSI, Steam Generators
THE MYSTERY The customer had issues with two of their Once Through Steam Generators (OTSG). They called ACES to the scene of a large biodiesel production facility. Feedwater and heated air pass through a bank of steel tubes and combine to create high-quality steam....
by Staff Writer | Oct 24, 2014 | Control Systems, CSI, Wiring and Electricity
THE MYSTERY One of ACES’ customers manufactures drums and containers for industrial uses. They called us due to an issue with their helium tester, a machine which injects the gas into newly manufactured barrels, seals them and raises them into a vacuum chamber to be...
by Staff Writer | May 3, 2013 | CSI, Municipal Water, Wiring and Electricity
THE MYSTERY There was a power outage at a municipal waste water collection system, which left a lift station dead in the water. The station wouldn’t run on generator power, and once regular power resumed the station wouldn’t come to life in auto or bypass mode either,...
