by Staff | Jul 7, 2010 | Control Systems, CSI, Programming, Wiring and Electricity
THE MYSTERY A local box manufacturer called ACES in a panic because the machine which produced the starch that glued their corrugated cardboard had suddenly quit working, resulting in a sticky mess. The factory used glue to turn giant rolls of paper into corrugated...
by Staff | May 11, 2010 | Control Systems, CSI, Wiring and Electricity
THE MYSTERY A large aerospace company in Kansas owned a large industrial generator that wasn’t generating; it was subsequently sold to two different companies — neither of which could make it work —so the generator was condemned. THE CLUES The first thing the ACES...
by Staff Writer | Oct 8, 2009 | Control Systems, CSI, Municipal Water, Programming
THE MYSTERY A municipal water plant was stuck with an unresponsive system of 28 PLCs and an AWOL dealer. The case of the obsolete PLCs. Every vendor the client talked to insisted a whole new system was the only way to get the plant back up to speed again. THE CLUES...