by Dade Ronan | Sep 4, 2018 | CSI, Furnaces and Ovens, Programming
THE MYSTERY One of ACES customers was wrestling with an older oven, which had been suffering for years from random flameouts due to a finicky burner. It was used to heat-treat aircraft parts, and had been tinkered with on and off over the past 10 years in an attempt...
by Dade Ronan | Aug 28, 2018 | News, CSI, Furnaces and Ovens, Programming
THE MYSTERY An aluminum extrusion company experienced a fire in one of their billet heaters, which damaged the machine and melted critical components inside the electrical control cabinet, along with a good part of the interconnecting wire. This was a high-demand...
by Staff Writer | Mar 6, 2017 | News, Control Systems, CSI, Measurement, Programming
THE MYSTERY A major glass manufacturer called ACES with a conundrum: One of their large glass cutting tables was acting erratically. This piece of equipment is used to trim 10′ x 10′ sheets of glass down into smaller pieces for use in the automotive and...
by Staff Writer | Feb 7, 2017 | News, Control Systems, CSI, Programming
THE MYSTERY For several years ACES has serviced a 80s-era cotton gin with functional mechanical parts, but a legacy control system dating back to the 1990s. One day a Control Systems Inspector (CSI) was called to the scene when a relay output card failed on the bale...
by Staff Writer | Jul 10, 2016 | Featured Projects, Aircraft, Control Systems, Furnaces and Ovens, Programming, Wiring and Electricity
50-Foot Oven Reaches Peak Performance with Redesign ACES partnered with Bogh Industries, experts in burners, ovens, heat-treat and mechanical engineering, on major design revisions to an oven in Chandler, AZ. This machine is part of a production facility which...
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...
