The Aces Inc.

THE MYSTERY An aerospace customer had recently moved one of their composite ovens which they used for curing aircraft parts. When they hooked it back up again they ran into a couple of problems: First, the machine wasn’t warming up... Read more

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THE MYSTERY One of ACES customers was wrestling with an older oven, which had been suffering for years from random flameouts due to a finicky burner. It was used to heat-treat aircraft parts, and had been tinkered with on and... Read more

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THE MYSTERY An aluminum extrusion company experienced a fire in one of their billet heaters, which damaged the machine and melted critical components inside the electrical control cabinet, along with a good part of the interconnecting wire. This was a... Read more

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THE MYSTERY One of ACES’ aerospace customers had an atmosphere oven which they used for heat treating parts. It was down for an overhaul, and they asked ACES to remove the eight burners and burner tubes and clean and inspect... Read more

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THE MYSTERY A major glass manufacturer called ACES with a conundrum: One of their large glass cutting tables was acting erratically. This piece of equipment is used to trim 10′ x 10′ sheets of glass down into smaller pieces for... Read more

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THE MYSTERY One of ACES’ customers called with a curious issue: They were an aerospace company using an older vacuum furnace to anneal stainless steel parts, making them shiny and silver — but now the parts were coming out green.... Read more

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THE MYSTERY For several years ACES has serviced a 80s-era cotton gin with functional mechanical parts, but a legacy control system dating back to the 1990s. One day a Control Systems Inspector (CSI) was called to the scene when a... Read more

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Framing the Future New Machine Shop, Calibration Lab and Office in the Works Ribs of massive metal beams cast shadows over a slab of newly poured concrete behind ACES’ current shop. By the beginning of 2017 this space will house... Read more

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The Case of the New Paint Drying Conveyor Oven THE MYSTERY An aerospace manufacturer contacted ACES with concerns about a 45′ conveyor oven used to heat-treat primer on aircraft parts. The oven was brand new from the manufacturer, purchased as... Read more

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Beating the Heat 50-Foot Oven Reaches Peak Performance with Redesign ACES partnered with Bogh Industries, experts in burners, ovens, heat-treat and mechanical engineering, on major design revisions to an oven in Chandler, AZ. This machine is part of a production... Read more

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The Case of the Shy Burner THE MYSTERY One of ACES’ clients called with an oven that suddenly wouldn’t light. This is a mission-critical industrial oven in a food processing operation and the company needed it back online, faster than... Read more

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The Case of the Cold Oven THE MYSTERY One of ACES customers is a fine food producer with 20 facilities across the US and Mexico. One of the ovens they used for final processing had always been finicky and difficult... Read more

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The Case of the Shifting Serial Numbers THE MYSTERY ACES routinely maintains a legacy oven at an aircraft plant that is used to cure composite parts for long periods at relatively low temperatures. Recently the customer had been having issues... Read more

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The Case of the Stubborn LACT Station THE MYSTERY A purchaser and transporter of crude oil products contacted ACES with a challenge relating to one of their LACT stations. A LACT unit (Lease Account Custody Transfer) is the critical control... Read more

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The Case of the Whistling Generator Tubes THE MYSTERY The Case Of The Whistling Generator Tubes. ACES was called to the scene of a large biodiesel production facility where the customer was having issues with two of their Once Through... Read more

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FlexMetrics Remote Dashboard For Your Steam Generator Monitor critical parameters from anywhere in the world.

FlexMetrics Status Monitor is like a heads-up display showing Steam Pressure, Steam Quality, Gas Flow Rate and more.

Quick, what’s your steam quality right now? Do you know what your feed water flow rate is at this moment? Have there been dips in your fuel flow rate over the past month?

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