Stuart C Irby Company Provides Downtime Reduction
Solutions using Allen Bradley Sensors
John Lewis of Stuart C Irby Company in Nashville, TN.
John Lewis and the Stuart Irby team met with their end-user customer and reviewed equipment specifications and designs for a new production line. While providing specification assistance for the electrical components, the Irby team identified that several benefits would be achieved by replacing a competitor's sensor products with the Allen Bradley series 42JS VisiSight sensors. The Allen Bradley VisiSight offers a visible light source for ease of alignment and installations, as well as an indicator that recognizes unstable sensor operation, a design to prevent unscheduled downtime events. The Irby customer benefited from the enhanced product features, and also saved nearly $30,000 on equipment costs.
Kendall Electric and Sylvania team to provide
Energy Savings & Cost Savings
Greg McMahan of Kendall Electric in Morristown, TN.
Greg and the Kendall team were well suited to meet the requests of a key VNA customer when asked to assist in an energy savings initiative. Greg engaged his local Sylvania Sales engineer, and together they conducted an audit of the plants manufacturing area. The audit revealed a significant energy savings opportunity was available by simply replacing the lamps and ballasts in 274 existing High Bay lighting fixtures. Sylvania's premium Metalarc metal halide lamp technology and corresponding multi tap ballast would provide savings of over $7600 a year with the utility company. In addition, the extended life properties of the Sylvania product versus the competitor’s lamp nearly doubled the life, driving an additional $4100.00 in savings for the VNA Kendall customer.
Kendall recommended Sylvania has developed a system solution by packaging the lamp, ballast, components and mounting hardware required to retrofit existing fixtures, to ensure quick installations and eliminate return trips for additional parts with one box containing everything the installer needs. With totals of more than $10,000 in savings annually, this initiative will provide payback in less than 22 months.
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Electric Equipment Company & Rockwell Automation support
Safety Training and Plant Standards
Dennis Bluhm, Automation Sales Engineer, Electric Equipment Company - Winchester, Virginia coordinated an on-site training program for a large food & beverage customer. The end-user customer currently has an initiative to improve plant safety and to ensure that the plant is compliant with current OSHA regulations. The customer developed an in-house safety team comprised of the plant safety manager, plant technicians, senior project engineer, production supervisors, and machine operators. Dennis organized a training team engaging an on staff EECO industrial control / sensor/safety product manager, a factory trained Rockwell Automation product manager, and the local Rockwell Automation Account Component Manager servicing the Electric Equipment Company branch in Winchester, Virginia.
Several on site training sessions were conducted as well as physical audits for specific areas that had been identified for safety improvement. Upon completion of process and application reviews, Allen Bradley Safety products including light curtains and safety relays were specified and installed.
A corporate wide strategy to implement a safety-training program and similar improvements with other plants has been initiated based on the successes achieved at the Virginia plant.
Codale Electric Delivers Energy Savings with T5 Technology
Jeff Curtis of Codale Electric in Ogden, UT
Jeff coordinated an energy savings program for a large consumer products manufacturer on a VNA contract. Codale electric was asked to audit the current lighting installation at the local plant they service because the light levels in the production area were insufficient. Jeff engaged his local lighting manufacturer representative and together they conducted an audit of the facility. Upon completion of the audit the recommendation was to replace the existing 250-watt, metal halide high bay fixtures with T5HO fluorescent high bay fixtures. The result of the installation would reap an improved lighting design and increased lumen output while providing energy savings for the plant. The savings calculation for energy savings was $768.60 per month or $9223.20 annually. In addition Codale assisted the customer with the filing requirements to receive a utility incentive rebate that significantly reduced the investment for the replacement fixtures, saving the customer in excess of $22,000 dollars.
Electric Equipment Company & Rockwell Automation support
Safety Training and Plant Standards
Dennis Bluhm, Automation Sales Engineer, Electric Equipment Company - Winchester, Virginia coordinated an on-site training program for a large food & beverage customer. The end-user customer currently has an initiative to improve plant safety and to ensure that the plant is compliant with current OSHA regulations. The customer developed an in-house safety team comprised of the plant safety manager, plant technicians, senior project engineer, production supervisors, and machine operators. Dennis organized a training team engaging an on staff EECO industrial control / sensor/safety product manager, a factory trained Rockwell Automation product manager, and the local Rockwell Automation Account Component Manager servicing the Electric Equipment Company branch in Winchester, Virginia.
Several on site training sessions were conducted as well as physical audits for specific areas that had been identified for safety improvement. Upon completion of process and application reviews, Allen Bradley Safety products including light curtains and safety relays were specified and installed.
A corporate wide strategy to implement a safety-training program and similar improvements with other plants has been initiated based on the successes achieved at the Virginia plant.
Codale Electric Delivers Energy Savings with T5 Technology
Jeff Curtis of Codale Electric in Ogden, UT
Jeff coordinated an energy savings program for a large consumer products manufacturer on a VNA contract. Codale electric was asked to audit the current lighting installation at the local plant they service because the light levels in the production area were insufficient. Jeff engaged his local lighting manufacturer representative and together they conducted an audit of the facility. Upon completion of the audit the recommendation was to replace the existing 250-watt, metal halide high bay fixtures with T5HO fluorescent high bay fixtures. The result of the installation would reap an improved lighting design and increased lumen output while providing energy savings for the plant. The savings calculation for energy savings was $768.60 per month or $9223.20 annually. In addition Codale assisted the customer with the filing requirements to receive a utility incentive rebate that significantly reduced the investment for the replacement fixtures, saving the customer in excess of $22,000 dollars.
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Kendall Electric and Sylvania team to provide
Energy Savings & Cost Savings
Greg McMahan of Kendall Electric in Morristown, TN.
Greg and the Kendall team were well suited to meet the requests of a key VNA customer when asked to assist in an energy savings initiative. Greg engaged his local Sylvania Sales engineer, and together they conducted an audit of the plants manufacturing area. The audit revealed a significant energy savings opportunity was available by simply replacing the lamps and ballasts in 274 existing High Bay lighting fixtures. Sylvania's premium Metalarc metal halide lamp technology and corresponding multi tap ballast would provide savings of over $7600 a year with the utility company. In addition, the extended life properties of the Sylvania product versus the competitors lamp nearly doubled the life, driving an additional $4100.00 in savings for the VNA Kendall customer.
Kendall recommended Sylvania has developed a system solution by packaging the lamp, ballast, components and mounting hardware required to retrofit existing fixtures, to ensure quick installations and eliminate return trips for additional parts with one box containing everything the installer needs. With totals of more than $10,000 in savings annually, this initiative will provide payback in less than 22 months.
Wabash Electric Supply Impact’s Downtime Reduction & Productivity Improvement
Jim Horn of Wabash Electric Supply. Jim services a large agricultural customer under contract with VNA. Over the past quarter, Jim has managed several TCO initiatives to support the local plant he services. The most lucrative event resulted from a technical support and productivity improvement effort. It began when a component failure occurred on a production line and the customer learned the part was obsolete and the OEM did not offer a replacement. The part was a numeric display that would display a failure code, when the production line shut down. The production staff would read the code then use a reference chart to determine where in the process the failure occurred. The chart was difficult to read and the troubleshooting effort was time consuming, and thus Wabash was asked to provide a solution. Jim responded immediately by going to the plant with a product specialist from Wabash's technical support staff. After reviewing the application the Wabash team recommended the installation of an Allen Bradley C300 panelview component HMI. After agreement by the customer, the Wabash team facilitated a quick and easy installation for the customer, as the unit was pre-programmed by the Wabash tech office prior to delivery. The maintenance staff and line operators are pleased with the message display, and say that it saves an hour a shift in troubleshooting, thus increasing the run time of the production line. The customer benefited from the responsiveness and technical abilities of the Wabash team. The technical support that was provided at no cost to the customer is valued at $1400. More importantly, the recovery of over an hour of run time per shift has increased productivity with an impact of over $75,000 annually to the customer's bottom line.
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