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 | Feb 20, 2015 | CSI, Wiring and Electricity
THE MYSTERY An ACES’ CSI (Control Systems Investigator) was called to the scene of an overheating side-seam drum welder. This is a primary machine for this customer, a barrel manufacturer. Its job is to take a flat piece of metal, roll it into a hoop and weld it down...
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 | Aug 16, 2013 | Control Systems, CSI, Wiring and Electricity
THE MYSTERY A correctional facility was having problems with one of their industrial, horizontal-running dryers. The Case of the dead dryer drum. The dryer drum refused to budge. The customer had pressed the reset button with no effect, so they called in the experts...
by Staff Writer | May 10, 2013 | Control Systems, CSI, Wiring and Electricity
THE MYSTERY A manufacturer of industrial packaging systems such as barrels and drums owned a bead expander that kept faulting. The ACES’ CSI (Control Systems Operator) initially worked with the customer over the phone to identify a bad motion card as the likely...
