Two recent examples within our OEM group have demonstrated the immense value of Automation Alliance Group membership to us and our customers. In one case, our OEM customer asked us to provide a quote for project startup costs. The project location would have required two travel days per week for a Revere person, meaning only three days of actual…
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This month, the City of Shreveport, LA selected Revere Control Systems to perform their water and wastewater SCADA system Upgrade. There was intense interest in this project because the City of Shreveport is currently under an EPA Consent Decree similar to what Baton Rouge currently is going through which has required the city of Baton Rouge…
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It is sometimes difficult to explain to customers and prospects how our participation in the Automation Alliance Group (the Alliance), with its associated global reach, benefits them. We recently had a perfect yet simple demonstration. An OEM client of ours that produces odor control equipment for municipal wastewater applications was bidding on an odor control system project in Romania…
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Tunnel Machine launch ceremony by Susan Gentle Construction of the new $1 billion Port of Miami tunnel has taken a giant leap forward now that “Harriet”, the largest diameter soft ground tunnel boring machine (TBM) in the United States, is digging the first of two tunnels under Biscayne Bay. On Friday, November 4, 2011, following…
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Late last month, the City of Auburn issued a resolution authorizing a SCADA professional service agreement with Revere Control Systems for ongoing support, including emergency callout services, on control system equipment at the H.C. Morgan Water Pollution Control Facility, as well as for other instrumentation and equipment needed within the wastewater treatment and collection system…
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Revere has completed the process required to be named a member of Corning’s Network of Preferred Installers (NPI) of fiber optic systems at the Authorized level. Among the requirements for the certification process, which is for the company and not individuals, were training classes and on-site inspections. We are currently one of only two control system integrators in…
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It takes water, lots of it, to produce energy, regardless of the process. A thermoelectric plant consumes 400 gallons or more per megawatt; producing a gallon of oil or gas uses 1.5 gallons of water. Biofuels are even more demanding, requiring 4 gallons to process a gallon of fuel; oil shale needs 2 to 3…
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Revere is officially a Member of Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk Information Solution Provider program. This program connects manufacturers with specialists who, using their significant and relevant industry and process knowledge, can apply a family of software tools to generate operational returns and help them integrate their manufacturing and enterprise information. FactoryTalk includes a suite of products made…
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We recently landed a project to provide controls for conveyors to be used in the Port of Miami Tunnel (POMT) project. This project includes providing a direct connection from the Port of Miami to highways I-95 and I-395, eliminating the substantial congestion currently experienced by the nearly 16,000 vehicles that travel to and from the seaport…
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We recently completed a control system that improves the conveying process at a regional distribution center for a major supplier of industrial parts for maintenance, repair, and operational replacement. The original system had one conveyor moving parts to a manual sorting process prior to shipping. Each sorting employee wore a wrist-mounted scanner which would inform…
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HMI Before On a recent project, our customer provided us with a sample of what they wanted their HMI screen to look like. Our people saw an opportunity to do something better. The result was an application of 3D graphics that provided a much better looking, more effective screen without foregoing any of the important data…
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End users of industrial legacy control systems now have a LinkedIn group to turn to for help. The LinkedIn group site (Legacy Control System Strategies) allows individuals responsible for maintaining, upgrading, or replacing older DCS and PLC systems a place to go for discussions and to ask questions. According to John Forlini, group administrator, “There…
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