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Odyssey Controls, Inc. provides over 60 years of engineering experience across a diverse spectrum of industries. from local Agri-Business plants to large multi-national manufacturing plants in Asia and Europe, our engineers are brilliantly adaptable to your industry’s automation requirements.

Industries Served

  • Agri-Business
  • Display Glass Manufacturing
  • Food and Beverage
  • Gas Particulate Filter Manufacturing
  • Optical Fiber Manufacturing
  • Stone/Blacktop
  • Specialty Glass Manufacturing
  • Textiles
  • Water/Wastewater Treatment

AGRI-BUSINESS

We have worked with some of the largest agricultural processors in the world that purchases crops to process food ingredients, animal feed ingredients, renewable fuels, and naturally derived alternatives. Specific equipment applications required the automation of cooking/pressure vessels, augers, load cells, railcars (integration to), dry ingredient bins, pumps, and heat exchangers.

Odyssey Controls provides solutions to a large Western New York full-service agribusiness that has been in operation for over 90 years. The following products/services are offered: dry and liquid fertilizers mixing, crop protection products, ag lime, gypsum, seeds, custom application and spraying, fine ground corn meal mixing, and corn purchasing.

DISPLAY GLASS MANUFACTURING

Continued support of one of the world’s largest manufacturers of display glass, which is used in the production of televisions, pcs, and mobile devices. The glass manufacturing process involves a complex integration of automated facility and process control systems that work in parallel to maintain a continuous glass melting process. Environmental delivery enclosure controls, RO & DI water systems, glass cutting, finishing systems, water treatment, equipment cooling water, and pollution abatement systems are some of the processes we have provided solutions for in this industry.

FOOD AND BEVERAGE

Our teams have worked for over 15 years at an International specialty food business with operations at two locations in Rochester, NY. This company specializes as a baked goods ingredient supplier for the food service and retail markets operating in the USA. One facility’s primary operation is the cooking of ingredients to make donut/pastry pie fillings. The other facility mixes dry bulk ingredients from silos, using automatic recipes to fill bags and palletize finished bags for distribution to national chain store bakeries.

GAS PARTICULATE FILTER MANUFACTURING

Similar to the conventional catalytic convertor operation in previous car models, the gas particulate filter (GPF) is used on gasoline direct injection vehicles to filter out exhaust particulate before it enters the environment. Odyssey engineers have worked in this industry for more than 7 years, engaging in several key manufacturing areas. Specific engineering and programming efforts pertained to microwave drying systems, material handling systems, robotics, part tracking, and in-line quality assurance (inspection) systems.

OPTICAL FIBER MANUFACTURING

With over 25 years of experience working with the largest manufacturer of Fiber Optic glass and cabling in the world, our teams have extensive knowledge of Facility Equipment and Control Systems required for these plants. Our group has supported R&D and production facilities throughout the world using numerous control system platforms. Everything from the delivery of raw materials for the process to the control of air/water pollution abatement systems have been automated.

STONE AND BLACKTOP

Stone quarries specializing in crushed stone, hot mix asphalt plant, landscape boulders, and high calcium agricultural lime. Conveyance control, weigh scales, water delivery, power monitoring, data collection/storage, recipe management, networking management, equipment integration, SCADA/HMI upgrades, and algorithm creation/modification activities highlight the bulk of automation tasks within this industry.

SPECIALTY GLASS
MANUFACTURING

R&D and short-run glass manufacturing processes that use electric or gas to heat furnaces of varying designs (shapes/sizes) to create both experimental and short run glass material. Automation typically consists of HMI/PLCs that control power requirements based on time/temperature recipes.

TEXTILES

This is an industry that provides backing material for construction products. Large industrial knitting machines weave fabrics that are used in the reinforcement of such consumer goods as drywall tapes and wall coverings. Equipment controlled/monitored in these industries include winders, ovens, load cells, VFDs, safety circuits, and knitters. A comprehensive understanding of mechanical advantages and torque specifications are required to successfully engineer and script logic for the successful control within this industry.

WATER/WASTEWATER TREATMENT

We have worked on both industrial and municipal water/wastewater treatment plant control systems for many customers in domestic and foreign markets. Water facilities have included equipment such as remote pumping stations, chemical dosing systems, carbon filtration skids, distribution piping, valve control, slow sand filter beds, rapid filters, storage tanks, residual chlorine sensing, supply/delivery pump stations, and RO/DI units (industrial). Wastewater facilities have included equipment such as lift pumps, bar screens, sedimentation/aeration tanks, incinerators, clarifiers, disinfection tanks, UV systems, and discharge controls.