Pacific Coast Automation, Inc.

09/23/2020

http://www.pca-inc.com/2020/09/23/case-study-almond-hulling-shelling-facility/

Location:  Manteca, CA Challenge An almond hulling and shelling facility, located in the Central Valley, has been operating for years by manually operating equipment utilizing older “bucket style” motor starters with individual HOA switches and hardwired interlocks.  The customer was […]

12/12/2018

http://www.pca-inc.com/2018/12/12/utilizing-microcontrollers-and-sbcs-in-industrial-automation-projects/

In a world of inexpensive SBC’s (single board computers) and small microcontrollers, such as Arduinos, it has become extremely easy and affordable to tinker with many types of projects with a huge variety of cheap I/O components. But do these …

10/30/2018

Example of a portable winery pump cart with VFD and remote control via PCA-supplied control panel that includes 900MHz wireless I/O. There comes a time with many industrial projects where remote I/O can span vast distances or obstacles which sometimes …

10/30/2018

Come and check out our new forum!

PCA is excited to announce a new forum that is available to all users of this website. It is a place where engineers, technicians, salespeople and just individuals who like to talk about controls can come and post anything they …

10/30/2018

It seems like every few months, there is new gadget, smartphone or some other consumer good that is released to the public, but industrial technology in use today for the most part has remained fairly consistent.  This is mostly due …