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Fully automated control system for Smurfit Kappa in Russia
ATG has undertaken a project with Smurfit Kappa in St Petersburg, Russia to provide a fully automated control system for the glue production plant at their corrugated packaging manufacturing facility. The project stems from ATG’s partnership with Cargill in the UK, where the Company builds similar process systems for Cargill customers. The control system ensures that the customer now has a fully automatic process, which accurately monitors and controls the viscosity of each mix throughout the production process. Any appropriate corrections are then made by the system, to guarantee that the glue is always continually mixed within tight tolerance limits. ATG customised the control system, which was manufactured at the Company’s Warrington headquarters and shipped over to the customer’s plant in St. Petersburg. The system comprised software derived from Cargill’s Coromat 3000 process technology running on a Siemens S7 PLC system with associated SCADA system a... Full Article »
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That sinking feeling with complete digital accuracy
Box office figures have confirmed that the most recent James Bond film 'Casino Royale' has been one of the most successful in this ever-popular franchise. Although the film steers clear of some of the more traditional gadgets that ‘Q’ can muster up; it still has a breathtaking array of special effects scenes. One of the biggest, the sinking of a Venetian building, saw Moog and SICK (UK) Ltd., two of the country's leading automation providers, work in harmony to ensure smooth and safe operation of a huge rig that had to sink one of three motion bases (the largest weighing 80.000Kg) into the large water tanks at Pinewood Studios just outside London. The sinking building was part of one of the final scenes in the film and required two different camera angles – an external scale model shot against a blue screen to show the building sinking into one of the Venetian canals and a full-scale internal model used to film the actors inside the actual sinking building. The... Full Article »
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