DPR News - Page 4
Hazardous Area Conveying
Posted:As part of an engineering team designing and building a Zone 1 hazardous area filling and conveying system, DPR were called upon to provide a control system to meet the exacting demands of the end user. Utilising the latest Siemens PLCs and Omron ...Read more
Efficiency Increase
Posted:In an effort to improve production efficiency a large building products company contacted DPR with a view to SCADA and PLC changes on their powders plant. Working closely with site technical and operations staff, our engineers eliminated key bottl ...Read more
PLC Upgrade
Posted:DPR controls have recently completed an important PLC upgrade for a well-known confectionery company. The task set was to replace four, obsolete Siemens S5 units with the latest S7 controllers, whilst keeping the plant in production and all within ...Read more
Out With The Old, In With The New.
Posted:Faced with a failed, obsolete PLC/HMI control system on one of their critical machines and with costly downtime mounting, a major UK chemical company turned to DPR Controls for help. Within days of receiving the order DPR engineers had provided a ...Read more
Persistent Industrial Network Problem Resolved
Posted:A chemical company based in central England faced repeated industrial network issues impacting on production. Others had attempted to locate the issue but failed. DPR engineers applied diagnostics and systematically eliminated the p ...Read more
Compact Waste To Energy Units Get The DPR Boost
Posted:DPR Controls are working closely with a global business to develop a novel compact waste to energy unit suitable for both land and marine use. Two prototype units capable of using hazardous or clinical waste utilising Allen Bradley PLCs and HMIs a ...Read more
DPR Enters The Virtual World
Posted:DPR Controls has successfully completed the migration of a pair of redundant WinCC SCADA servers to a VMware VSphere virtual environment providing a smooth transition of a legacy system to a leading edge, high performance hardware platform. The ne ...Read more