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Article: Combining Controls.(Fulghum Industries Inc.)
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- April 1, 2009
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By Al Presher, Contributing Editor
PAC system integrates with RSLogix control for wood handling
Reconciling disparate control systems, each very powerful and having individual strengths, is becoming quite common for systems' integrators, especially as end users look for options to modify and improve their control systems.
For Fulghum Industries Inc., one of the first companies to implement remote wood processing facilities adjacent to paper mills, the challenge was creating an interconnection between a stacker-reclaimer and other conveying systems at the plant.
The stacker-reclaimer is located at the Packaging Corp. of America facility ...