Automation & process control

Range of services

  • Consulting & Conception
  • Plant and machine optimisation
  • Process optimisation
  • Reconstruction of old plants
  • Planning and programming
  • Software-standardisation
  • Test and plant simulation
  • Description of equipment & user manuals
  • Migration from old to new plant
  • Procurement, cabinet construction and electrical installation

Main areas

  • PLC
  • PCS
  • Visualisation
  • Communications
  • Drives
  • Motion control
  • Robotics
  • Machine vision
  • Safety engineering

PLC

Services

  • Consulting & concept development
  • Requirement specification
  • Planning and programming
  • Safety-related programming
  • Program standardization (module development)
  • Program and system migration (from OLD to NEW)
  • Test & Simulation 
  • Commissioning & Optimization
  • Continuing support
  • Procurement and assembly

Applied systems

  • Siemens SIMATIC TIA-Portal 
  • Siemens SIMATIC STEP7 (S7-200/300/400, …) 
  • Fail-proof systems with high availability
  • B&R, ABB (Freelance 800F, CBF) 
  • BECKHOFF, VIPA 
  • Allen Bradley, Mitsubishi, VIPA 
  • Siemens legacy systems: SIMATIC S5 (S5-95U/S5-100U/S5-115x/S5-135x/S5-150x/S5-155x) 

Process control

Services

  • Consultation & concept development
  • Requirement specification
  • Planning and programming
  • Program standardization (typicals)
  • Safety-related programming
  • Program and system migration (from OLD to NEW)
  • Test & Simulation
  • Commissioning & Optimization
  • Continuing support
  • Systemupdate- etc. upgrade
  • Procurement and assembly

Applied systems

  • Siemens SIMATIC PCS7
  • ABB (Freelance 800F, CBF)
  • B&R Aprol
  • Honeywell DC-System
  • Emerson DeltaV
  • Siemens Altsystem: Teleperm M

Visualisation

Services

  • Consulting
  • Concept development
  • Requirement specification
  • Planning and programming
  • Standardization
  • Project and system migration (from OLD to NEW)
  • Test & Simulation
  • Commissioning & Optimization
  • Continuing support
  • Systemupdate- etc. upgrade 
  • Procurement and assembly

Applied systems

  • Siemens SIMATIC TIA-Portal
  • Siemens SIMATIC WinCC
  • Siemens SIMATIC WinCC flexible
  • Siemens Altsystem: SIMATIC ProTool
  • Siemens Altsystem: SIMATIC COROS LSB/LSC
  • Wonderware In Touch
  • Intellution iFix
  • Freelance 800F, VisPro
  • VISPRO (Visual Systems)
  • C++, C#
  • Visual Basic

Communications

Services

  • Analysis of the existing communication technology
  • Consulting & concept development
  • Requirement specification
  • Planning and programming and standardization
  • Development of software drivers
  • Test and simulation routines
  • Measurement network utilization
  • Commissioning & Optimization
  • Procurement and assembly

Applied systems

  • PROFINET
  • Industrial Ethernet
  • PROFIBUS
  • Fail-safe communication PROFISAFE
  • Serial bus systems
  • MODBUS, INTERBUS, EIB-Bus
  • OPC for different bus systems (OLE for process control)
  • OPC DA, OPC UA, OPC A&E, OPC HA

Drives

Services

  • Consulting
  • Concept development
  • Requirement specification
  • Planning and programming
  • Parameterization and configuration
  • Commissioning & Optimization
  • Synchronous and asynchronous motors
  • Frequency converter (FU), Servo motor
  • Stepp motor, linear axles
  • Procurement and assembly

Applied systems

  • Siemens SINAMICS 
  • Siemens Micromaster 
  • Siemens Masterdrive 
  • KEB, STÖBER 
  • LOHER, SEW 
  • Lenze, Danfoss 
  • ABB, Control Techniques 
  • Unidrive 

Motion control

Services

  • Consulting
  • Concept development
  • Requirement specification
  • Planning and specification
  • Parameterization and configuration
  • Commissioning and optimization
  • Positioning software
  • Software positioning technologies
  • Stepper motor, linear axes
  • Procurement and assembly

Applied systems

  • Siemens Drives 
  • SEW 
  • Control Techniques 
  • IAI 
  • Omron 

Robotics

Services

  • Consulting & concept development
  • Requirement specification
  • Planning the robot cell
  • Integration in overall automation concepts
  • Advanced robot programming
  • Test & Simulation
  • Commissioning & Optimization
  • Continuing support

Applied systems

  • KUKA KRC2, KRC4 
  • ABB, Fanuc, 
  • Denso, Kawasaki 
  • Mitsubishi, Stäubli 
  • Genmark, 
  • Brooks Automation 

Image processing systems

Services

  • Consulting & concept development
  • Requirement specification
  • Planning and programming
  • Detection and measurement of objects
  • Text and object recognition
  • Text recognition (OCR, ...)
  • 1D barcode reading
  • Reconititon 2D matrix code
  • Colour recognition
  • Position detection
  • Procurement and assembly

Applied systems

  • Siemens 
  • Cognex (Vision Control) 
  • Omron 
  • Datalogic, ESI 
  • Keyence 
  • ifm electronic 
  • Axis 

RFID systems

Services

  • Consulting & concept development
  • Integration in automation concepts
  • Requirement specification
  • Planning bus system
  • Programming
  • Interface connection to the MES / ERP
  • Commissioning & Optimization
  • Procurement and assembly
  • Examples / References:
    • Material tracking (production lines)
    • Tool holder identification (production lines)

Applied systems

  • Siemens RF200 
  • Siemens RF300 
  • Siemens RF600 
  • ifm electronic