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    OEM Manufacturing

    Understanding Instrumentation Certifications and Approvals

    As with many regulatory compliance matters, navigating code requirements for industrial automation projects can range from mildly confusing to virtually impossible! No singular body of code tells controls engineers what regulations their projects must comply with, complicating a seemingly simple task like specifying a sensor. But, there is hope. One very useful way that instrumentation manufacturers such as Whitman Controls help streamline compliance is by using Certification, Approval, and Testing marks. Let’s define each of these items, and then go on to an example.

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    July 22, 2023
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    Case Studies

    Application Case Study: Compressed Air Monitoring for Food-Grade Glass Inspection

    At an inspection rate of 300 glass bottles per minute, our customer’s continuous inline inspection platform carries responsibility for making a instantaneous pass-or-fail decision on a single bottle every two-tenths of one second. When a ‘fail’ decision is computed, a series of pneumatic cylinders and positioners isolate the suspect bottle, move it to a reject conveyor outfeed, and hold spacing on the remaining bottles so that inspections continue seamlessly. How did we protect the system from control air supply upsets? Find out the four ways we solved this challenge.

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    June 29, 2023
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    Case Studies

    Application Case Study: Dry-Run Protection for Solar Water Pumps

    A recent customer contacted Whitman to discuss a solar-powered water pump application. This client designs and manufactures solar pump systems intended to be deployed anywhere in the world where sunlight shines and water needs to flow. A necessary technical feature of these systems was that they would automatically shut down should they lose incoming water flow, and that was all we needed to know to determine that we could help.

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    June 19, 2023
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    Case Studies

    Application Case Study: Pre-Refining Crude Oil Level Control

    Recently, a midstream energy producer contacted Whitman to discuss an application that sought to optimize these proportions towards cleaner burning, more efficiently produced end-products. The issue at hand was inaccurate, high cost, high maintenance level control in the distillation feed tanks. Good thing custom level control is right up our alley!

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    May 13, 2023
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    OEM Manufacturing

    Critical Utility Monitoring in Food & Beverage Facilities

    Process control sensors in Food & Beverage applications have a rough life. Relentless cleaning with harsh chemicals, intentional large swings in operating conditions, and the perpetual demand to perform flawlessly or else real people might get real sick consuming compromised food products – you’d think it’d be a no-win situation for instrumentation manufacturers.

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    May 13, 2023
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    Case Studies

    Application Case Study: OEM Instrumentation for Medical Contract Manufacturing

    Medical testing is a fascinating industry segment that sits squarely at the crossroads of human biology, clinical laboratory science, and industrial engineering. This OEM faced a series of large projects to help their customers (medical device contract manufacturers) scale up operations, and Whitman was eager to explore ways to help both the OEM and the end users in one fell swoop.

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    April 26, 2023