Digitalization
Digitalization has become on of the biggest talking points of the Industry 4.0 strategy. Most industrial companies are looking to implement the Industry 4.0 philosophy on their sites, and Control Automation Solutions can assist your company in doing this. Control Automation Solutions is a company that specializes in IT, IIOT, OT and control automation systems. With this as our background, the Industry 4.0 philosophy is what we know, and what we have been doing for many years.
IT / OT and Virtualization of Plant IT Systems
With IT as a back bone, current plant automation system require a stable and easy to manage IT system which does not require a lot of energy to run. Control Automation Solutions is a trusted partner in delivering secure, easy to manage, reliable IT environment for control systems and plant automation systems.
Commonly referred to as OT systems, Control Automation Solutions can build and maintain a complete IT environment, control room and control system for any plant, machine or process line, including all cyber security and remote management measures that make the current generation of IT systems so powerful.
Digital Plant Design
Digital plant design is the core of utilising AI and AR technologies to create a functional digital twin of your site. Digital twins and digital plant design are not only done for new site, but Control Automation Solutions can also take and existing asset or site, and digitalize it for use in AR simulation or AI efficiency calculations.
Control Automation Solutions can setup a database and create a digital plant design for your machine, process line or site to help you get read for Industry 4.0
Control System Integration in Industry 4.0
Making sure your control system is fully compatible with the Industry 4.0 standards is not that easy if you have an older control system on site. Control Automation Solutions is a trusted partner for upgrades and updates on control systems especially when it comes to integrating control systems in to Industry 4.0 environments
With our many years of experience in IT and Industrial IT systems, we have the experience in building a secure and reliable IT system to run the control automation part on. Having this knowledge and combining that with our control system experience, we can say we know how to implement an Industry 4.0 compatible system on your site.
Data collection and analysis
Data collection for analysis of business and process optimisation is a key component of making your business more efficient. Control Automation Solutions has a solutions for getting data from most types of HMIs and PLCs and create a standardised way of storing them for analysis. To ensure that data does not go missing, we use reliable data storage systems comparable to a private on site cloud solution, or we can use an existing data lake like azure.
For data analysis we often use tools with a neural network component that we train to provide you with the required insight quickly. After training the analysis tools can work with you like a co pilot, warning you about efficiency loss because of trends in data it can spot.
Dashboards and monitoring
Dashboards are a very good tool to have live access to data in a way that makes sense for you and gives you the information you need. By monitoring different data points, and organising them for you in a way that makes sense for you is what drives us to make more intuitive dashboards every time.
Monitoring of data is one of the most important things that Control Automation Solutions can solve for you. Control Automation Solutions has a system that can collect data from nearly every type of PLC or HMI, and even from a dedicated IO solution. Control Automation Solutions will make sure the data you need can be delivered to you in a way you want to read it, by dashboard, report, notification or any other way.