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Every variable, alarm and trendon one screen
Operator screens and supervisory systems designed around how the plant is run day to day, built, configured and commissioned by the same engineers who wrote the PLC logic underneath.
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HMI & SCADA platforms
SENTIENT
Our own IIoT platform
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Countries commissioned in
In-house
PLC, panel and screens
What this covers
Screen design that suits the operator
A start-up screen, a running screen and a fault screen, laid out the way the plant is driven. Colour is reserved for abnormal conditions, so an alarm is the first thing you see.
Alarm rationalisation
Priorities that mean something, deadbands and delays set so a shift is not buried in nuisance alarms, and shelving for known faults. An alarm list nobody reads is worse than none.
Trends and historian
Logging at a rate that matches the process, retained long enough to be useful, with trends an engineer can pull up during a stoppage rather than after it.
Reporting
Shift, batch and production reports generated from the same data the operator sees — to PDF or Excel, on schedule or on demand.
Recipe and batch handling
Parameter sets stored, versioned and downloaded to the PLC on selection, so changing product does not mean an engineer editing setpoints by hand.
Redundancy and resilience
Redundant servers and dual network paths where a stoppage is expensive, and screens that keep the plant running when the supervisory layer is down.
Users, access and audit
Role-based logins so an operator, an engineer and a manager see and change different things, with a record of who changed what.
Remote and mobile access
Read-only dashboards on a phone or a manager’s desk, over VPN rather than exposed to the internet. This is where our own SENTIENT platform usually comes in.
Platforms
Siemens WinCC · FactoryTalk View · AVEVA/Wonderware · Ignition · SENTIENT · Mitsubishi GOT · Delta DOP · Phoenix Contact
Also supported
Existing SCADA installed by others — including systems with no source files and no documentation
Sectors
Steel and ferro alloys · refineries and oil · coal washeries · material handling · process and food plants · hydro power
Platforms we work on
We are not tied to one vendor. The right controller is the one your maintenance team can get spares for.
Siemens
WinCC and WinCC Unified, plus Comfort and Basic panels on Profinet.
Allen-Bradley
FactoryTalk View SE and ME, with PanelView Plus terminals over EtherNet/IP.
AVEVA / Wonderware
InTouch and System Platform where an existing site standard is already in place.
Ignition
Unlimited-client licensing and browser-delivered screens, where seat count would otherwise drive the cost.
SENTIENT
Our own platform — local SCADA, reporting, recipe and AI analytics on a Rust backend that runs from an edge box to a cluster.
Mitsubishi Electric
GOT series terminals with GT Designer, typically alongside MELSEC controllers.
Delta
DOP series panels with DOPSoft, where a compact machine HMI is all that is needed.
Phoenix Contact
PLCnext-based visualisation and web HMI. We are an authorised system integrator for Phoenix Contact.
Networks and protocols we commission
- Modbus TCP
- CANopen
- OPC DA
- REST / Webhooks
- IEC 61850
- IEC 60870-5-104
- DNP3
- Radio link
- Bluetooth LE
Running on something obsolete?
Most of what we are called in for is an existing plant — a control system nobody can buy parts for any more.
- Windows XP SCADA nobody dares patchA supported platform on current hardware, screens rebuilt
- Dead or unobtainable HMI panelsA current terminal, screens recreated from the running plant
- Chart recorders and panel metersLogged, trended and reportable data
- Alarm lists thousands of rows longRationalised priorities an operator can act on
- Readings copied onto a clipboardAutomatic shift and batch reports
How a job runs
Design, build and commissioning are all ours, so there is no gap between the drawing, the panel and the engineer on site.
- 01
Operations walkthrough
We sit with the people who run the plant and find out what they watch, and what they can safely ignore.
- 02
Screen and alarm design
Navigation, screen hierarchy, tag list and alarm philosophy agreed on paper before configuration starts.
- 03
Configuration
Screens, historian, reports and recipes built against the PLC tag list — usually our own, so the naming matches.
- 04
Factory acceptance test
Driven from simulated I/O so operators can click through every screen and alarm before site.
- 05
Commissioning
Live on plant with our engineers on shift, tuning deadbands and alarm limits against real behaviour.
- 06
Training and handover
Operators trained on the running system, with the project files, licences and backups handed over.
What you get at handover
Documentation is part of the job. You should be able to maintain the system yourself, and call us because you want to.
- Screen hierarchy and navigation drawing
- Tag list, cross-referenced to the PLC
- Alarm schedule with priorities and setpoints
- Historian and retention configuration
- Report and recipe templates
- SCADA project source and runtime backup
- Licence and activation records
- FAT and SAT records, signed
- Operation and maintenance manual
- Operator and engineer training
Where we have done it
- SCADA for the coke oven at SAIL — IISCO, Burnpur
- Wireless and IIoT solution for the same coke oven
- PLC and SCADA program modification and maintenance for Oil India, Assam
- PLC, HMI and SCADA upgrade and commissioning at Bhutan Carbide & Chemicals
- PLC and SCADA for furnace electrode control at Bhutan Silicon Metal
- PLC and SCADA for the ferro alloy plant at Druk Ferro Alloys, Bhutan
- PLC, SCADA and HMI programming and commissioning for Metso Outotec and Tega Industries
- PLC and HMI for three reactor kettles at Balmer Lawrie, Kolkata
- Pressure data acquisition and reporting for the homogeniser at Balmer Lawrie
- Chart recorder, temperature indicator and HMI at Cresmac Foundry
- HMI repair for Bharat Petroleum, Budge Budge