safety

Engineering a Live Upgrade at One of Alabama’s Largest Power Plants

Modernizing a decades-old coal plant network is one thing. Doing it while consolidating 27 PLCs into a fully redundant PROFINET system, with zero unplanned downtime, is another. That challenge is still underway at one of Alabama’s largest power plants where Revere is leading a multi-year effort to modernize the facility’s fuel handling system without interrupting…
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A Practical Approach to Paper Mill Safety Upgrades

With new safety standards hitting the paper industry, some friction while getting up to compliance is unavoidable, but Revere has developed some proven methods for making the transition as smooth as possible. In this article, we take a closer look at the modernization of one major US paper mill’s winder deck and how the approach…
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Important Coronavirus Update

To Our Valued Customers and Suppliers: Every day brings new developments related to Coronavirus, and we understand that uncertainty can be unsettling. Our hearts go out to those who have been impacted. At Revere, there is no higher priority to us than the health and safety of our customers, suppliers, and employees. Revere’s leadership team…
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Do You Need PLC Redundancy?

Recently, we worked with a client suffering from substantial downtime issues primarily due to I/O failures. They had a redundant PLC system, and though it hadn’t malfunctioned, it was at end-of-life, so they contracted us to modernize their entire plant. As part of that process, they asked whether they should continue to use a redundant PLC…
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