This year’s Process Solutions Summit (PSS) will be our biggest yet with more courses to choose from than ever before! With 36 courses available throughout the day, it may be difficult for some to decide which ones to attend. So, let’s dive into a few of them to give you a better idea!

IIoT/Industry 4.0

Today’s manufacturers need to be flexible, smarter, and more agile than ever before. Why? Because the digital transformation occurring across all industries is accelerating as connectivity to the internet continues to expand.

Taking the data collected and implementing solutions that optimize productivity and profitability are the catalysts for Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0.

Join Ankur Mohan from Rockwell Automation, Cory Perelman from CRB, or Adam Battineri from Endress+Hauser to discuss this important industry advancement!

Earlier this week, ECI announced the expansion of our MSA Gas and Flame product lines to Industrial Applications and Markets in Northern New Jersey, Metro New York, and Long Island! We’re very excited to have this opportunity to enhance our customer service for our North Jersey and New York customers.

Our partnership with MSA spans over 30 years back to 1987 when we first began representing their Gas and Flame detection product lines. Over the past three decades, our dedicated MSA product experts and service specialists have grown into the team we have today.

Our team consists of nine talented ECI employees who provide superior levels of customer support through their knowledge and experience on MSA products/technologies. Each member of our MSA team is split between three departments: Service, Sales, and Application/Customer Support.

IO-Link is a fieldbus independent communication interface for sensors and actuators. From parameter storage to detailed diagnostics, IO-Link’s advanced features and functionality have generated plenty of excitement over the years. But how does it work, and why should you care?

IO-Link applies to a broad range of applications in the automation industry, with benefits existing for even the simplest of applications.

Since it’s manufacturer and fieldbus independent, IO-Link can be implemented across a large variety of higher-level fieldbus protocols and product platforms. This is a huge benefit for engineers because they can standardize on a single sensor interface, creating uniform integration across many field-level devices.

IO-Link can also help reduce costs of specialty cabling and connectors thanks to process data being transmitted digitally.

So when is IO-Link right for your

As you may already know, this year is Eastern Controls’ 50th Anniversary! In celebration, we wanted to share some notable parts of our history with you throughout the year. In the second part of our “Early Days of ECI” series, we’ll dive into the 1980s and 1990s – a pivotal time for our business!

In the 1980s, ECI said hello to new business and goodbye to old friends. Richard “Dick” Bright retired from ECI in 1986, leaving behind a legacy of exceptional service.

In 1987, ECI was awarded a partnership with Mine Safety Appliances (MSA) as their fixed gas and flame detection representative in the Mid-Atlantic region. By this time, MSA had established a strong 73-year reputation as the leading innovator in fixed and portable gas detection, along with their other lines of other safety equipment.

The 1990s brought even more opportunities for continued growth. In 1991, Robert Glomeau, a friend of Cliff McLaughlin Sr.

Sunday, March 17 was the start of a three-day battle with a dangerous chemical fire at the Intercontinental Terminals Company (ITC) petrochemical plant in Deer Park, TX. The fire originated in the middle of a section of the facility which contained 15 storage tanks in three rows of five.

In an air emission event report filed by the company on Monday, March 18, the cause of the fire was listed as a leak in a tank manifold.

There hasn’t been anything released since the fire outlining any potential flame detection equipment ITC had or didn’t have, but this unfortunate event is a good reminder that fires such as the one in Deer Park can (and should) be prevented.

Optical flame detectors are a necessity for hazardous environments within petrochemical, oil & gas facilities, industrial gas turbines, and many