Project Blog
Blending and Grinding Facility
Impel Systems has completed a brand-new construction project for an Alberta pulses and cereals blending and grinding facility. The project included: Full automation of truck in and out with multi-port distributors for shipping and receiving of the product; An automated seed cleaning operation involving an Almaz, Clipper and Indent machinery; […]
Midstream Gas Producer Upgrade
Impel completed a PLC5 upgrade for a midstream gas producer in central Alberta. The upgrade involved removing two existing PLC5 racks and replacing them with CompactLogix IO. The PLC5 program was converted to Logix5000 and integrated into an existing CompactLogix CPU. Two existing Redlion HMIs were updated to use EthernetIP […]
Seed Cleaning Facility
Impel Systems has completed a project for a new Canadian seed cleaning facility in Prince Edward Island. The project included: Full automation of truck in and out with multi-port distributors for shipping and receiving of product; Automated seed cleaning operations involving an Almaz, Clipper, De-Bearder, Indent, Spirals, and Vista-Color sorter. […]
PLC Update at Permolex Ltd.
PLC Update Improves Production Efficiency and System Integrity Permolex International was in need of a facility upgrade. The expert team at Impel Systems provided the solution by converting the existing, obsolete programmable logic controllers (PLC) to new; allowing Permolex to integrate the entire system to a single, reliable, and informative […]
Facility Upgrade
Impel recently completed stage 2 of a 4-stage facility upgrade for a local Alberta food producer. Both stage 1 and stage 2 involved upgrading the obsolete PLC5 control system to ControlLogix and remote I/O. Stage 2 included the replacement of another PLC5 CPU rack and its rack I/O along with […]
Compressor Station PLC Upgrade
Impel completed a rush PLC5 replacement in May 2016 for a Central Alberta Midstream gas producer. A power outage caused the communication cards in an antiquated PLC5/40 rack to permanently fault. Attempts were made to replace the faulty cards, but each replacement card had the same memory fault due to […]
Canola Oil Press Upgrade
In August 2016 Impel Systems completed an upgrade for a Central Alberta canola oil producer. The existing control system was upgraded with new remote I/O to control three new canola oil presses, along with controls for numerous augers, limit switches, a level sonar, and seed cleaner shaker. The existing system […]