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Champion Pet Foods MES and OEE Implementation

Corso Systems worked with Champion Pet Foods to implement an OEE and MES System for their Alberta Canada facility. The system included recipe management, downtime tracking, production scheduling, and OEE dashboards. In addition scrap/waste counts were updated from Champion's ERP System after QA/QC samples were taken and analyzed, providing detailed view of their OEE.

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Landfill Monitoring System with Mobile and Virtual Reality

Corso Systems worked with San Bernadino County to implement a SCADA system for their San Timeteo landfill. The SCADA system was built using Inductive Automation's Ignition platform and their Perspective Module for Mobile device access. 3D Cameras and Drones were also used to build a digital twin model of the landfill equipment accessible in the HMI.

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Conveyor Speed Sync for an Energy Bar Packaging Facility

Corso Systems implemented PLC control and an HMI for a energy bar production line with previously manually controlled equipment. Individual machine controls were replaced with an HMI screen to set the desired speed setpoint on all machines with one button press. This project was the first step towards a fully integrated SCADA solution.

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Custom Data Monitoring Website for Solar Facility Commissioning

Corso Systems built a web-based SCADA solution for a solar power generation company. The system included integrating PLCs and switchgear hardware using Modbus, a Red Lion Datastation Plus acting as a process historian, and an ASP.NET front-end to aggregate data from multiple solar fields into one user interface.

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SCADA System for Multiple Remote Solar Sites

Corso Systems worked with a leader in solar power generation to develop a SCADA system standard built on Wonderware's Archestra platform and an OSI PI Historian. This SCADA Standard reduced deployment and commissioning time for new facilities by 85% and was deployed to over 500MW of solar power within one year.

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Process Change Management System for Mining

Corso Systems worked with a diatomaceous earth processing facility to develop a centralized process change management system. We based the requirements on their existing Excel spreadsheet system. We designed a robust and automatic approvals process for proposed changes.

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Business System Integration, Process Control, and Analytics for Oil and Gas Refinery

Corso Systems worked with Jaxon Energy to implement a process control and information system for its Vicksburg, MS refinery. Siemens WinCC Open Architecture platform was the SCADA system along with Siemens S7-1200 PLCs. Jaxon Energy now has more power and flexibility than they were able to achieve on any of their existing systems to date, at a much lower cost.

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