Services

Control By Design

What We Do

We design, engineer, program and commission Siemens control systems — primarily PCS7, TIA Portal, Step 7 and WinCC — for the mining and minerals processing industry. That covers everything from a blank control philosophy document through to a fully commissioned running plant, on-site or remotely. We also support and upgrade existing systems. Use the filters below to explore what we offer.

Feasibility studies, budgeting and estimating
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Design and Engineering
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Procurement, expediting and cost control
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Factory Acceptance Testing
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Site installation support and coordination
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Commissioning management
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Control System Engineering
  • Control philosophy and functional specifications
  • Siemens PCS7, TIA Portal & Step 7 programming
  • WinCC SCADA design and development
  • Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT)
  • On-site & remote commissioning
  • System upgrades and legacy migrations
Control & Automation
Instrumentation
  • Design of instrumentation systems
  • Instrument application, selection and data sheets
  • Installation oversight and quality assurance
  • Commissioning of instrumentation equipment
  • Instrument Fieldbus systems
Instrumentation

Platforms & Systems We Work With

Our core environment is Siemens, but we are comfortable across all major platforms. Below is a breakdown of the hardware, software and protocol environments we work in most day-to-day.

Siemens Hardware
  • Siemens S7-410, S7-1500, S7-400, S7-300 & S7-1200
  • PCS7 DCS systems
Control & Automation
Industrial Networks
  • PROFINET, PROFIBUS, AS-i, MODBUS & DEVICENET
Control & Automation
Drives & Motor Control
  • Siemens Sinamics
  • WEG & ABB drives
  • Simocode Pro V & Simocode DP
  • Tesys-T
Control & Automation
SCADA & Visualisation
  • Siemens WinCC (Classic & Unified), WinCC OA
  • iFIX, ADROIT, RSView
  • CITECT, Wonderware (AVEVA)
Control & Automation
Remote Commissioning & Support
  • Remote commissioning for Siemens systems
  • Ongoing remote PLC/SCADA troubleshooting
  • Software changes, fixes and minor upgrades
  • Available to existing clients on request