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Protective Covers for Unitronics Vision Controllers

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As has been noted elsewhere...

Protective Lexan Covers are Now Available for All Vision Controllers.


Even though the Unitronics Vision controllers are very economical, there’s no sense damaging them when you can easily apply a durable protective cover.

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AMPS Industrial Completes Control System for Custar Quarry

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My company, AMPS Industrial Controls, recently finished the installation and start-up on a control system for the Custar Stone Quarry project we mentioned late last year. This quarry is located in northwest Ohio...

Increased Inventory

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Having analyzed our 2010 sales, looking particularly at areas of dynamic growth, we are increasing our inventory of Unitronics products. The increases will be seen mainly in the Vision Series of OPLCs but Snap I/O modules and Expansion I/O modules will also be increased.

2010 was a great year for us, in no small part due to the growth we saw in...

V1040 to be used in new brewery for Dogfish Head Brewing Company

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Next week I will be traveling to meet with Sam Calagione and his head brewmaster, Floris. I'll be traveling with the president and production engineer from a longtime customer, Sabco, to work on a new nano-brewery. We’ve built the control panels for Sabco’s Brew-Magic...

Westermo & Unitronics Play Well Together

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My company (AMPS Industrial Controls) is working with Speiser Electric Company and Gerken Paving Products to update the entire control system running the stone quarry in Custer, Ohio. This is a big project because a huge section of conveyor and crusher are being added to the existing equipment.

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Great new products on the way...

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Wow, I can't tell you how eager I am to get my hands on the new products coming our way from Unitronics. I've been biting my tongue not mentioning them for a couple months so that Unitronics could release the information on their timetable but...

Both products were displayed at the PackExpo convention in Chicago earlier this month and Jas...

Data Tables & Learning from Mistakes

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Twelve years ago when I started writing basic ladder programs for PLCs I made a lot of mistakes. Seemed like I was always getting halfway through a project only to realize I'd taken the wrong approach and needed to take two steps back before I could move forward. Frequently this resulted in me scrapping the entire program and starting over. I...

The Fascinating World of Twitter

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Well, I never thought it would happen but people have convinced us to enter the world of Twitter. We'll be tweeting often about Unitronics, control system design and the electrical control panels we build. We'd be honored to have you follow us @matthew_AMPS.

Unitronics in General Motors

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An interesting thing happened to me a couple weeks ago. Well, let me back up...

We prefer to do all our control system design...

Machine Controls - Overhead Conveyor

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In this entry, I would like to highlight one of our machine controls projects that used the Unitronics V130 OPLC:

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