Fischer & Porter

MicroMod Automation acquired the Fischer & Porter Micro-DCI family in early 2004. The Fischer & Porter Company, founded in 1937, has long been a leader in the design and manufacture of process instrumentation. From small beginnings in a house in Philadelphia’s old Germantown section, the Fischer and Porter brand grew to be associated with an industry-leading range of flow measurement and control products, along with devices to measure, indicate, and control other process variables including pressure, temperature, level, and more.

In the early 1980’s Fischer & Porter, also commonly known as F&P, introduced the Chameleon line of digital controllers, which grew into the Micro-DCI family: the most specified controllers for water and wastewater treatment projects. Because of F&P’s expertise in flow measurement, the Micro-DCI family also gained large market share in brewing, pulp and paper, mining and a host of other flow-related applications around the world.

In 1989 Fischer & Porter introduced the 53MC5000 Process Control Station which today forms the basis of many water, wastewater and sewage treatment plant control systems. A new design of the 53MC5000 was launched in early 2002, which includes enhancements for both operators and engineers.

ABB purchased Elsag Bailey in 1999, and MicroMod Automation acquired the Fischer & Porter Micro-DCI family from ABB in early 2004. The 53MC5000 controller forms the core of our WaterPAK series of pre-engineered packages for water, wastewater and sewage treatment.

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Bailey Controls
From development of the world’s first steam boiler meter to innovations that ushered in the age of distributed processing, the Bailey name has long been associated with excellence in control and instrumentation. Founded in 1916 by the US inventor Ervin G. Bailey, the company launched a breakthrough in boiler control. The meter helped boiler operators achieve and maintain maximum process efficiency. The device combined air flow and steam flow measurements on the same chart to let operators know how much steam the boiler was emitting, how much air was being used, and the condition of the fuel bed.

In the mid-1980’s Bailey launched the CLC line of panelboard digital controllers. Continuing the Bailey Controls tradition of excellence in the boiler control market, these controllers were widely used in utilities, industrial boiler controls.

In 1989, Bailey Controls merged with Italy’s Elsag Group to form Elsag Bailey Process Automation,. Continuing the enhancement of its Command Series standalone controller line, in 1994 Elsag Bailey launched the next generation of its highly successful CLC Command Series Controllers, the Strategic Loop Controller (SLC). The SLC01 and, later, the SLC02 quickly gained top market position in industrial and institutional boiler control.

Elsag Bailey merged with ABB (Asea Brown Boveri) in 1998. With ABB’s focus on distributed control and field instrumentation, the CLC and SLC controller families were eventually discontinued. MicroMod Automation purchased the remaining Bailey SLC and CLC support business from ABB in early 2004 and . developed strategies to assist customers in migrating to current technologies such as our SLC RetroPAK. At the same time we endeavor to help our clients maintain existing installations until an upgrade can be installed. Our SteamPAK series of pre-engineered packages for boiler control is based on the same principles as Bailey's original boiler meter: to help boiler operators achieve and maintain maximum process efficiency.

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Taylor Instrument Company
For 144 years, the TAYLOR name has meant quality instrumentation and controls. Taylor-developed technologies have led the way to many of today’s current measurement and control techniques.

Established in 1851 in Rochester, New York, Taylor Instrument had a long history of technical innovation. From its beginnings as a thermometer and barometer company, Taylor went on to establish one of the first American industry research and development departments in 1911. In 1941, Taylor Instrument engineers John Ziegler and Nathaniel Nichols pioneered control industry technology with the integrated Proportional, Integral and Derivative (PID) methods of loop tuning still in use today.

Taylor Instrument became part of Sybron Corporation in 1973, and ten years later was purchased by Combustion Engineering. It was then that Taylor introduced the MOD 30 controller, one of the first microprocessor-based panelboard control systems. The MOD 30 soon became one of the most widely used control systems in the process industries.

ABB (Asea Brown Boveri) acquired Combustion Engineering in 1989 and integrated Taylor Instrument with it Kent Meter business. The MOD 30 controllers were sold under the trade names ABB Kent-Taylor and later, ABB Instrumentation. In 1991 ABB Kent-Taylor introduced the MODCELL Multiloop Processor, designed to replace the multiple control units of the MOD 30 family with a system-style architecture, and in 1996 launched the MOD 30ML controllers based on the MODCELL processors. The MOD 30ML allows Taylor MOD 30 users to migrate to state-of-the-art products and make technological advancement, while retaining the powerful algorithms and the features they liked in their existing controllers.

MicroMod Automation purchased the MOD family from ABB in early 2004 with the intention of enhancing and improving the products for our target markets. Today, MOD 30ML and MODCELL are part of MicroMod’s SteamPAK offering of standard, pre-engineered packages for industrial and institutional boiler controls.

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