With the variety of technologies available, the correct choice of an automation solution has become increasingly critical to the successful performance of a business.

The issues of life cycle costs, fitness for purpose, short-term and long-term expansion capabilities, effectiveness, business benefit and life expectancy, are just a few that need to be considered when performing case studies on systems.

Using our expertise plus knowledge and experience of many industries we can offer impartial and accurate consultative advice for all stages of a project. We are happy to consult from an individual control system problem to a full Greenfield site project and from analysis to results. Often we are asked to carryout a ‘Front end design study’ prior to the project start up or approval. The results of this study would normally be expressed in the form of a Functional Design Specification (FDS) or if a Pharmaceutical project in the separated forms of Functional Specification (FS), Hardware Design Specification (HDS) and Software Design Specification (SDS). We can, if required, from our consultation results go on to design, build, install and commission your new control system.

Do you know the status of your existing PLC and SCADA Systems? Are your critical systems based on obsolete hardware and software? We have considerable expertise in upgrading and improving existing obsolete PLC / SCADA systems and Control Panels. We can review your site automation equipment, advise you of equipment status and spares availability. We can help you to plan your way forward to maximise returns on existing capital investment, control costs and potential downtime / changeover outages.