• 3M Line Upgraded

Javlyn gets 3M line upgraded and back into production in record time

The Situation: 3M's Cumberland, Wisconsin facility needed to upgrade their old PLC-3™ controlled Scotch-Brite™ Floor-Pad production line to an Allen-Bradley ControlLogix™ platform. Training was no longer readily available for the PLC-3 and it could not interface to higher-level communications systems.

The Challenge: The PLC-3 "spoke a different language" - 1,600 ladder rungs and 13,000 instruction codes had to be rewritten for the ControlLogix platform.

The Solution: Unable to come up with an acceptable strategy to resolve the problem, 3M turned to Javlyn. Javlyn converted all the PLC-3 code to ControlLogix code, using their proprietary conversion utility. Javlyn's utility translated all ladder logic and comments.

The Result: The new system was tested during a weekend of scheduled downtime. Two weeks later, the PLC-3 was decommissioned and ControlLogix installed in less than 4 hours.