Refining Industry Expertise
Plan your Downtime and Put your Operators & Control Engineers at Ease
Free yourself from issues caused by obsolete control systems, protect your assets from bad actors, and upgrade your DCS/PLC software to the latest versions for an effective baseline. Our Team can help you reduce maintenance costs and meet revenue goals. Don’t wait for an unplanned outage. Take control of your plant maintenance.
Our Team offers the following capabilities and experience in the Refining industry:
- Control System migrations, upgrades & modifications
- Control System Integration
- Process Control Design & Automation
- Cybersecurity, IT/OT/IIoT
- Process control network design and architecture
- Virtualization
- s95 enterprise integration
- UL-Certified Panel Design, Fabrication, & FAT
- Continuous Process Control Design & Implementation
- Process Data Historians
- Process Hazard Analysis, SIL Calculations, Safety Requirements Specifications, and SIS Logic Solver Programming
- Asset Performance Management (APM), Advanced Process Control (APC), and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
- Industrial Digitalization and Industry 4.0 solutions
Our Team is experienced in a variety of projects
Greenfield Implementations
Brownfield Modifications
Network Infrastructure Upgrades
Project Spotlight
Migrating to a Modern DCS System
A refinery with obsolete control equipment could not maintain its control systems. Replacement parts were hard to find, and the DCS vendor no longer supported the legacy DCS system. In addition, the legacy DCS system left a gap in resources since it required specific knowledge from plant personnel to maintain it. The refinery chose to migrate to a DCS Honeywell Experion. The project involved over 2500 I/O points, 40 process graphics, and 700 loops and included programming & configuration, panel design, startup & commissioning, operator training, and post-startup loop tuning. After DCS migration, the refinery was able to reduce its day-to-day maintenance. Now, using an intuitive HMI interface, it was able to close the resource gap with skilled personnel to troubleshoot and maintain the modern DCS system. The increase in personnel efficiency increased productivity for the facility. Narratives were developed to help operations and non-programmers understand how the system operates. In addition, operators contributed improvement to the control process, ultimately leading to improved production.
Platforms
As a vendor-agnostic system integrator, we have experience with a wide variety of platforms to provide you with the solutions that best fit your systems and facilities. Our experience includes Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS), Human Machine Interfaces (HMI), and Plant Historians.
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