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…
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…
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….
We’re proud to announce that we’ve earned the UL 698A designation, which qualifies us to build explosion-proof cabinets to UL standards. These industrial cabinets use heavy-duty construction such as 1.5″ thick cast aluminum studded with Grade 8…
For Your Steam Generator Monitor critical parameters from anywhere in the world. Quick, what’s your steam quality right now? Do you know what your feed water flow rate is at this moment? Have there been dips in your fuel flow rate over the…
One of ACES’s customers is a company that processes wastewater using advanced technology, removing contaminants and returning 100% reclaimed water. They called ACES to retrofit a hydraulically-powered filter press that had originally been integrated into an…
Oil fields of Canada hold an estimated 169 billion barrels, second only to Saudi Arabia in potential oil production. The challenge lies in extracting the particularly sticky, semi-solid bitumen from the sand. Enhanced Oil Recovery…
A municipality came to ACES with a freshwater system in need of updating. The existing control systems of the plant were showing their age, with slow and unreliable communication and many manually-performed operations. ACES installed new PLCs, cabinetry,…
Nine months ago a major aircraft manufacturer came to us with a challenge: They wanted a system that would turn on a light bulb if a task exceeded the allotted time. What started off with one build station,…
It’s Tuesday morning. Bob, a line employee at a major aircraft factory strolls up to the computer station in Zone 2 and scans his badge. The system loads all the menus and data Bob has clearance for. At a glance he can…
