by Staff Writer | May 24, 2016 | News, CSI, Furnaces and Ovens, Wiring and Electricity
THE MYSTERY One of ACES customers is a fine food producer with 20 facilities across the US and Mexico. One of the ovens they used for final processing had always been finicky and difficult to start, with a startup routine of 12 seconds, so they asked ACES to modify...
by Staff Writer | Apr 26, 2013 | Control Systems, CSI, Wiring and Electricity
THE MYSTERY An ACES customer manufactures tortilla chips, using a 30-year-old multi-hopper weigher to measure chips for bagging. The machine was faulting and the customer had worked with factory tech support to troubleshoot it themselves, but after replacing $12,000...
by Staff | Feb 1, 2013 | Control Systems, CSI, Motion Control, Programming
THE MYSTERY A barrel manufacturer called ACES with a problem: The heads that formed the beads of the barrels had started moving inconsistently and roughly enough that when they stopped the whole machine would jerk. Just two years earlier ACES had installed a brand new...
by Staff | Sep 16, 2012 | Control Systems, CSI, Municipal Water
THE MYSTERY One of ACES’s municipal water customers had an issue with the external display for an ultrasonic sensor, which sits above a tank and measures the liquid level. The unit was displaying a fault and the customer could not get it to reset. THE CLUES One of the...
by Staff Writer | Sep 2, 2012 | CSI, Municipal Water
THE MYSTERY A municipal water customer was having an issue with the exhaust fan on one of their lift stations: When they flipped the switch to start the fan manually, it tripped two breakers. They called an ACES Control Systems Inspector (CSI) to the scene to...
