Paper & Pulp Manufacturing Automation
Reliable process control, coordinated drives, instrumentation, and modernization for continuous paper and pulp operations.
Britton Electronics & Automation, Inc. designs, builds, programs, and supports automation systems for paper, pulp, converting, and continuous-process manufacturing facilities throughout Illinois and the Midwest.
Paper production depends on coordinated drives, stable process conditions, dependable instrumentation, and rapid response when equipment fails. BEA develops practical control systems that help facilities maintain production, improve visibility, and reduce unplanned downtime.
High-Speed Machine Drives & Coordinated Motion
Paper machines and converting lines depend on multiple drive sections operating together through changing speeds, tensions, and production conditions. BEA integrates VFDs, motors, encoders, load cells, and control systems into coordinated drive platforms.
Systems can include speed references, draw control, tension regulation, coordinated acceleration and deceleration, section permissives, drive diagnostics, and controlled shutdown sequencing.
Speed coordination, draw control, acceleration profiles, section control, and synchronized operation.
Load-cell feedback, dancer control, tension setpoints, winding control, and web-break response.
Drive status, motor current, speed feedback, fault history, alarms, trends, and remote troubleshooting.
Highlights: Coordinated drives • Draw control • Web tension • Winder control • Drive diagnostics • Controlled shutdown
Stock Preparation, Pulping & Process Control
Stock preparation and pulping systems require coordinated control of tanks, pumps, refiners, screens, agitators, chemical feed, dilution water, and material transfer. BEA develops PLC, HMI, and SCADA systems that provide operators with clear control over the process.
Flow, pressure, level, consistency, temperature, and equipment status can be integrated into automated sequences, permissives, interlocks, alarms, and historical trends.
Tanks, agitators, pumps, refiners, screens, blending, transfer, and process sequencing.
Flow, pressure, consistency, level, temperature, dilution, and chemical-feed control.
Operator graphics, process trends, alarm history, equipment status, reports, and remote diagnostics.
Highlights: Stock preparation • Refiners • Screens • Tank control • Chemical feed • Process trending
Process Instrumentation, Quality & Production Data
Stable paper quality depends on accurate process measurements and clear visibility into changing production conditions. BEA integrates pressure, flow, level, temperature, consistency, moisture, basis-weight, and other process instruments into the plant-control system.
Historical trends, production totals, quality values, alarm records, and equipment runtimes can be collected and presented in operator-focused dashboards and reports.
Flow, pressure, level, temperature, consistency, moisture, calibration, and instrument diagnostics.
Basis weight, moisture, caliper, production grade, quality values, limits, and operator visibility.
Production totals, downtime records, equipment runtimes, alarm history, trends, and shift reporting.
Highlights: Process instruments • Quality data • Production totals • Historical trends • Runtime records • Alarm history
Web Handling, Rewinding & Finishing Systems
Rewinders, slitters, coaters, calendars, roll handling, and finishing equipment depend on coordinated motion and reliable machine sequencing. BEA integrates drives, motors, sensors, safety devices, and operator controls into complete systems.
Machine status, roll data, speed references, tension values, faults, and production information can be displayed through local HMIs or plant-wide SCADA systems.
Drive coordination, tension regulation, roll diameter, speed control, sequencing, and operator setup.
Drives, PLCs, safety systems, sensors, actuators, packaged equipment, and plant-network integration.
Machine setup, production status, roll information, alarms, diagnostics, trends, and maintenance controls.
Highlights: Rewinders • Slitters • Coaters • Roll handling • Web tension • Machine sequencing
Modernization, Reliability & Field Support
Paper and pulp facilities often depend on control systems that have operated for decades. BEA can modernize obsolete PLCs, HMIs, drives, instrumentation, and communication systems in phases while preserving production-critical equipment.
Connect existing PLCs, drives, instruments, packaged machines, and plant communication networks.
Replace obsolete controls in manageable phases while reducing shutdown time and production disruption.
Loop checks, drive testing, sequence verification, field startup, documentation, and operator training.
Rapid diagnostics, PLC and drive support, remote access, troubleshooting, and production-critical service.
Highlights: Legacy controls • PLC upgrades • Drive modernization • Field commissioning • Remote support • Emergency service
Ready to improve the reliability of your paper or pulp operation?
From coordinated drive systems and process instrumentation to legacy-system modernization and emergency troubleshooting, BEA can help keep your production line operating.