To get PLC and HMI systems installed in Akasia, Pretoria, work with an industrial automation system integrator that can handle the full project: system design, PLC programming, HMI programming, control panel design and building, electrical integration, installation, testing, commissioning and handover. For most factories and industrial sites, PLC and HMI installation is not a single task. It is a controls engineering project. The system must match the machine, process, safety

A plant can have good PLCs, reliable robots, quality sensors, well-sized VSDs, a decent SCADA platform and a modern industrial network, and still have a poor automation system. That sounds contradictory until the line stops on a Monday morning and nobody can tell whether the fault sits in the PLC logic, the robot cell, the drive parameters, the safety circuit, the vision trigger, the network switch or the operator sequence. Each component may be working as designed. The syste

Introduction to System Integration System integration is at the heart of industrial automation. It's the process where individual...