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ICA Buying Guide: Get the Right Product for your Industrial Process!
This guide will be focusing on Relays, Contactors, and Breakers. We understand sometimes you might not be exactly sure of the product you need, and sometimes there are emergencies, and fast action is needed. Therefore, we created this guide to help you—help us get just what you need! When you know the answers to the… Read More
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SCADA Basics
Jump right into our summarized introduction to the basics of SCADA! From the Start In the mid-20th century, industrial facilities depended on personnel to physically control and monitor equipment. However, as the industry grew much larger, the innovation for equipment control arose. In the early 1970s, the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system was… Read More
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The Benefits of Having Speed Drives in your Manufacturing Company
Let’s just jump right into it! Adjustable Operating Speed: The main goal of having Speed Drives is to modify the motor speed based on process requirements, this goal faces mechanical and electrical limitations, depending on the type of AC motor used. Thanks to its ability to convert AC supply into DC (Rectify Process) and then… Read More
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STECK: The Economical Option with The High-Quality Automation Products
What is Steck? Most of you probably recognize names, such as Schneider Electric, Siemens, and Allen Bradley; since they are the industrial automation world giants. However, only a few of you might know the name STECK, since it is just starting to make its way into this market. STECK is highly recognized across Latin America… Read More
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Industrial Automation—What It Is and Why YOUR Production Company Should Implement It
People who haven’t entered the world of industrial automation are constantly asking, “What is Automation ? How does automation help? What are the advantages or benefits of automation?” For those inquiring minds, here are some answers. Starting with the basics, industrial automation can be explained as minimizing the human intervention required in industrial processes and… Read More
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From The Classroom to The Real World- My Engineering Internship
My Engineering Internship, here it goes: Throughout the period of the internship at Industrial Controls and Automation, INC., I shadowed the project manager and the project engineer and was able to visit different companies where they were working on a variety of projects; the companies ranged from a paper factory, to a freight forwarding company,… Read More
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Digital and Analog Signal (I/O); How to Know When to Use Each One
By Luis Guerra, Engineering Projects Director at ICA Inc. This blog explains the similarities, differences, characteristics and some examples of a digital and analog signal. 1-Discrete Signal (Digital) In the world of Industrial Control, all signals whose possible values can be only and exclusively two states, the presence or absence of the signal, are known… Read More