TelePro/SSE systems are currently installed across the USA as well as in Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan, and South America.  Examples of projects completed since 2000 include:

  • 8 complete rolling mill automation systems using the Tsentry computing platform (replaced 8 Modcomp 9250/9260 computers and 1 Measurex process control system).
  • 6 additional mill systems in which either TelePro/SSE control technology or the customer's proprietary technology was implemented on the customer's computing platform:
    • Modcomp 9250
    • MARAS
    • XMATH
    • Compaq-DEC Alpha/UNIX
    • PC/QNX
  • 7 Tsentry non-destructive product inspection systems. (7800 hardware interrupts per second, motion control at 400 updates per sec.)
  • Rolling mill setup model and adaption system upgrade:
    • Migrated the customer's proprietary setup model technology from a DEC Micro-VAX computer to the Tsentry computing platform.
    • Upgraded the human-machine interface from a DOS-based system to Internet web pages displayed on networked PC's.
  • Aluminum atomizing process automation system upgrade:
    • Migrated the customer's process control technology from Modcomp Classic computers to Compaq-DEC Alphas running UNIX.
    • Upgraded the human-machine interface from ASCII forms displayed on hardwired terminals to Internet web pages displayed on networked PC's.
    • Replaced 12 legacy PLC systems with hardwired serial communication interfaces to the process control host computer with new models interfaced to the new host via ETHERNET TCP/IP.
  • Shop floor automation / production control system for an aluminum sheet finishing plant:
    • Migrated TelePro software commissioned in 1997 from a Compaq-DEC Alpha running UNIX to the Tsentry computing platform.
    • Migrated the system relational database from Oracle to Microsoft SQL Server.
    • Updated human-machine interface software consisting of over 60 operator displays and over 60,000 lines of application code.
    • Reconfigured process control and plant site networks to implement the customer's corporate security policies.
  • Added SPC quality monitoring functions to an existing shop floor / production control system:
    • Installed a Microsoft SQL Server relational database for storage and retrieval of laboratory measurement data.
    • Implemented the human-machine interface using the existing commercial HMI system (Citect - CI Technologies Pty. Ltd.).
    • Implemented SPC control functions, including control charting, for several critical product parameters.
  • I/O upgrade for 4 aluminum homogenizing furnaces:
    • Replaced the original Modcomp computer remote I/O hardware with Allen-Bradley PLC systems and remote I/O.
    • Revised host computer process control software to interface to the PLC's via ETHERNET TCP/IP.
  • Upgraded a chemical process control and data acquisition system in which the customer's proprietary software was migrated from PC's running the QNX operating system to the Tsentry computing platform.
  • Special-purpose data acquisition instrument development:
    • Implemented data acquisition and analysis software specified by the customer in a hand-held computer (PDA) using the Microsoft Visual Basic .NET language.
    • Developed a process I/O device driver for the hand-held computer.
    • Implemented a wireless networking solution to transfer process data from the hand-held computer to an external file server.
    • Implemented software to load the data into a process control database.
    • Implemented a mechanism for distributing software updates to various plant locations via a web page.
  • Control technology audits for over 10 rolling mill systems, providing recommendations on:
    • Gauge and tension control
    • Sheet flatness control
    • Mill setup systems
    • Mill sequencing
    • Data acquisition systems
    • Maintenance and diagnostic systems
    • Roll crown specifications
    • Pass schedules