Industrial Automation Solutions
Most plants have a production automation system that is fully integrated with business information systems. The heart of the system the production automation system consists of electrical equipment (i.e. motors, solenoids, valves, level transmitters, temperature transmitters, etc.) wired to Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC's) located throughout the plant floor. This is the heart of the system and responsible for controlling the production equipment, process interlocks, safety interlocks, sequential control, closed-loop control of process parameters and basic alarming. It is important to understand that the automation must be in place before it will be possible to achieve a fully integrated plant.

If the plant already has some automation then it is possible to retrofit the existing PLC's with Ethernet based controllers. The Ethernet backbone must be in place before all the different systems can be integrated as one.

The total integration is split into the following five implantation phases: