Case Studies

Friday, October 17, 2008
Readying a new generation of engineers for a 21st century career
ICT’s Director, Mark Crittenden, first became aware of Project 729 in his role with the Geelong Manufacturing Council. He then took up the baton, by managing development of an entertaining “catapult” display that would showcase automated technologies to young people.
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Thursday, August 07, 2008
ICT was recently engaged to upgrade the safety features on a 20-year old production facility for a leading automotive manufacturer. The iron-casting line is of considerable size and complexity, running two daily 8-hour production shifts and a daily maintenance shift.
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In 1997, ICT undertook the design and implementation of process control systems for a large green fields process plant for a well-known national dairy foods processor. This project was completed under a demanding time schedule by taking advantage of state of the art S88 batch control technology. This project led the way as one of the first S88 batch implementations in Australia.
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The challenge: designing and integrating Category 4 compliant safety upgrades to existing press lines, combining individual manual presses with a series of automated presses (including press tending robots).
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Friday, October 17, 2008
Readying a new generation of engineers for a 21st century career
ICT’s Director, Mark Crittenden, first became aware of Project 729 in his role with the Geelong Manufacturing Council. He then took up the baton, by managing development of an entertaining “catapult” display that would showcase automated technologies to young people.
Read More
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Siemens have further expanded its extensive range of PLC CPUs with the release of the IM151-8F PN/DP safety CPU. This CPU is ideal for small to medium size automation applications and has been eagerly adopted by ICT. It can support several thousand inputs and outputs and comes with an inbuilt 3 port Ethernet switch.
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