CSI

The Case of the Lost Robot

ACES was onsite working with a customer on a project, while there, the customer mentioned a Yaskawa Motoman MH24 they were trying to get up and running. The technician returned to ACES and had our in-house CSI team reach out to the customer. During the…

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The Case of the Hot-and-Cold Oven

An aerospace customer had recently moved one of their composite ovens which they used for curing aircraft parts. When they hooked it back up again they ran into a couple of problems: First, the machine wasn’t warming up fast enough. Second, once it finally…

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The Case of the Mysterious Flameout

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…

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The Case of the Billet Heater Fire

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…

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The Case of the Howling Burner

One of ACES’ aerospace customers had an atmosphere oven which they used for heat treating parts. It was down for an overhaul, and they asked ACES to remove the eight burners and burner tubes and clean and inspect them. When the ACES Control Systems…

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The Case of the Homeless Glass Cutting Machine

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 construction…

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The Case of the Green Parts

One of ACES’ customers called with a curious issue: They were an aerospace company using an older vacuum furnace to anneal stainless steel parts, making them shiny and silver — but now the parts were coming out green. A Control Systems Inspector (CSI) was…

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The Case of the Granddaddy Cotton Gin

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…

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The Case of the New Paint Drying Conveyor Oven

An aerospace manufacturer contacted ACES with concerns about a 45′ conveyor oven used to heat-treat primer on aircraft parts. The oven was brand new from the manufacturer, purchased as an improvement over a defunct oven with unusual sensors: the operators…

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The Case of the Shy Burner

A VFD swap caused an oven’s burner to stop lighting. Control Systems Inspector traced the wiring and found something unexpected. One of ACES’ clients called with an oven that suddenly wouldn’t light. This is a mission-critical industrial oven in a food…

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