System Integration
We offer a one-source responsibility for many types of turnkey solutions requiring multi-discipline system integration. Using emerging technologies in electrical equipment manufacturing, instrumentation, process control, power generation, and SCADA, we deliver functional systems to support your mission.
Establishing enhanced features such as power management, system automation, and remote monitoring may improve your mission’s reliability and your overall system operation. By implementing advanced digital relaying and automation controllers, we can enhance your power reliability by establishing automatic source transfer controls, synchrophasor trending, generator automation controls, and base-load demand response systems. With PLC/PAC control philosophies and appropriate control logic development, we can ensure the proper operation of your electrical equipment to fulfill your specific requirement.
Our core competencies:
Programmable Logic Controllers
Advanced programmable logic controller (PLC) schemes can facilitate electrical operations and enhance reliability. We develop hot/standby systems with redundant digital and analog I/O modules, power supply modules, and field bus communication modules to establish reliable automation and control of industrial processes to dynamically adjust to varying system conditions in real time.
Human Machine Interface
A human machine interface (HMI), which is also known as OIT or GUI, provides an interface to connect operations personnel with automated or monitored process control systems. We develop HMI systems for complex industries to include monitoring of real-time trends, historical data, system alarms, and identifying areas within mission-critical processes that require intervention to minimize facility downtime.
SCADA Interfacing
Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems consist of networked data communications for high-level process supervision and management at a centralized remote facility. We develop, upgrade, and modify SCADA systems to establish interfaces to connect electrical personnel at a centralized facility for monitoring and control of both industrial process control systems and utility grid automation systems.
Intelligent Electronic Devices
Intelligent Electronic Devices (IED) in power system applications often consist of digital multifunction protective relays by SEL, GE-Multilin, ABB, Siemens, or Alstom. The application of an intelligent protective relay enhances system protection by allowing system protection to dynamically adjust based on system conditions for a given electrical operating mode to optimize the power system reliability.
Automation Controllers
Programmable Automation Controllers (PAC) provide the capability for enhanced control and automation of utility substations or industrial control systems. Programmable automation controllers, such as an SEL RTAC or a GE DAP system, can integrate with other intelligent electronic devices to establish greater situational awareness, enhance electrical reliability, and integrate with external SCADA systems.
Generation Systems
Automation, protection, and controls will establish proper functionality of emergency generation, standby generation, peak shaving, demand response, cogeneration, microgrids, and energy recovery systems. Our integration of PLC/PAC schemes, IEDs, and HMI systems will enhance generator paralleling, utility paralleling, bumpless transfer schemes, base load operation, and load-shed & load-add schemes.
With intelligence applied to your electrical system, it allows you to accomplish enhanced features and establish advanced capabilities for power management, sequence control in response to changing circumstances, or remote monitoring of your unique electrical system to meet your specific functionality requirements. Examples of such system integration applications that can benefit you include:
Water & Wastewater Systems. Process control, automation, and monitoring of water and wastewater facilities to ensure proper water treatment, wastewater treatment, and water distribution and to avoid sanitary sewer overflows.
Mission Critical Facilities. Automated priority load management schemes for a mission-critical facility to ensure maximum reliability to electrical equipment and avoid unnecessary downtime that can compromise essential system loads.
Power Generation Systems. Paralleling control systems for power generation plants to ensure proper functionality of engine generator sets in conjunction with prime mover controls, turbine controls, switchgear integration, and coordination with the balance of plant equipment.
Distribution System Automation. Automation, remote control, and adaptive intelligence for optimizing protection and control of electrical substation facilities to optimize power flow, electrical system stability, power factor control, and the ability to re-route power around faulted systems.
SCADA Systems. Real-time connectivity, data exchange, and system trending between electrical equipment and with remote SCADA systems using Modbus, DNP3, Mirrored Bits, and GOOSE message communication protocols.
