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Panels, control rooms, plant floors and the plants themselves: the environments this company builds control systems for.

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A closer look at industrial automation.

Some of these are our own jobs, photographed on site. Others are the kind of plant and equipment we work in every week. Together they are the environment the control systems on this site live in.

Panels · commissioning · control rooms · water · automotive · solar

Technician working inside a live control panel — 01Panel maintenance in the field

Field-installed control panel with pilot lights and selector switches, door open — 04Pump station panel, open for commissioning

Underside of a photovoltaic mounting structure — 08Photovoltaic mounting structure

Transmission tower and power lines against a dusk sky — 11Panel programming and bench testing

Operator hand on a joystick at a control desk with illuminated pushbuttons and HMI screens — 15Control desk, operator station

Operator in a high-visibility vest at a control room console with SCADA screens — 16Control room, live process

Row of industrial stamping presses on a mill floor — 21Press line, mill floor

Automated guided vehicle handling totes in warehouse racking — 24Automated handling in racking

Industrial electronic control boards — 27Electronic control boards

Close view of photovoltaic modules on a mounting structure — 30Module and mounting structure

Illustrative scene: Industrial software and operational data — 33Industrial software and operational data · Illustration

Interior of an assembled control panel with PLCs on DIN rail, circuit breakers, terminal blocks and wiring duct — 36Assembled panel interior, PLCs on DIN rail

SCADA screen showing effluent station discharge flow — 39SCADA screen, effluent discharge flow

Technician working inside an electrical cabinet beside a machine control pendant — 43Cabinet work beside the machine

Containerised energy system installed on site — 49Containerised energy system on site

Engineer in a hard hat looking down a photovoltaic module production line — 51Photovoltaic module production line

Illustrative photovoltaic generation field — 54Photovoltaic generation field · Illustration

Oil and gas process facility with storage tanks and a flare stack — 57Process facility, tanks and flare

Illustration of a signal tester checking a PLC and low-voltage terminal connections — 60Testing: signal checks on the terminals · Illustration

Illustrative water industrial scene — 63Water treatment · Illustration

Illustrative oil and gas industrial scene — 66Oil and gas facility · Illustration

Electrical distribution network against an open sky — 02Effluent discharge flow, on shift

Submersible pump set being lowered by crane into a wet well — 05Submersible set going into the wet well

Close detail of photovoltaic cells — 09Photovoltaic cell detail

Illustrative installed battery storage cabinet with organized modules and protection devices — 12Battery storage cabinet

Engineer commissioning a system from a laptop at a command station — 14Commissioning from the command station

Outdoor energy storage containers on a prepared equipment pad — 17Field review at the teach pendant

Control logic wired up on a development board before it reaches the panel — 19Relays and terminal block

Close view of the tooling under an industrial press — 22Press tooling, close

Conveyor and stockpile at an aggregate processing plant — 25Conveyor and stockpile

Aerial view of a ground-mounted solar farm beside farmland — 28Ground-mounted solar, from the air

Rows of photovoltaic panels on a utility-scale solar plant — 29Utility-scale photovoltaic rows

Illustrative scene: Motor control center with drives and contactors — 32Motor control center with drives and contactors · Illustration

Control panel with PLC racks, distributed I/O and wired terminal blocks — 35PLC racks and distributed I/O

Engineer programming at a control panel workbench — 38Programming at the panel workbench

Processing plant with conveyors, silos and screening equipment — 41Conveyors, silos and screening

Older control cabinet with analogue meters, breakers and relays — 44Legacy cabinet, before the retrofit

Electrical terminals and field wiring detail — 46Field wiring and terminal detail

Outdoor electrical enclosures on an installed equipment skid — 48Outdoor enclosures on an equipment skid

Utility-scale photovoltaic power station seen across the site — 52Utility-scale photovoltaic station

Large-diameter pipework at a water treatment basin — 55Pipework at a treatment basin

Illustration of process drawings and field notes for defining an industrial controls project — 58Discovery: drawings and field notes · Illustration

Illustration of electrical drawings, technical documentation and source files prepared for handover — 61Handover: documentation and sources · Illustration

Illustrative paper industrial scene — 64Paper mill · Illustration

Illustrative government industrial scene — 67Government facility · Illustration

Rectangular clarifier basins with walkways at a wastewater treatment plant — 03Clarifier basins, wastewater treatment

Robotic cell assembling a vehicle body — 06Robotic assembly cell

Controls cabinet being installed beside weir gates under construction — 07Weir gate structure, controls going in

Six-axis robot arm serving an automated assembly line inside a production hall — 10Robot on the assembly line

Hands wiring contactors and circuit breakers inside a control panel — 13Panel wiring, contactors and breakers

Orange six-axis industrial robot arm mounted on a workbench — 18Six-axis arm, bench setup

Photovoltaic array at sunset — 20Solar array under sunlight

Soldering iron working on a control board with switches and indicator LEDs — 23Control board assembly, bench detail

Wiring and contactors inside an electrical control cabinet — 26Control wiring and contactors

Rows of photovoltaic modules across a utility-scale array — 31Module production line

Illustrative scene: Continuous paper production line — 34Continuous paper production line · Illustration

Close view of a relay module wired into a control circuit, with screw terminals and colour-coded conductors — 37Relay module wired into a control circuit

Two technicians in coveralls at a machine control pendant on a plant floor — 40Machine control pendant, plant floor

Control cabinet with breakers, relays and wiring duct — 42Control cabinet, front elevation

Technician working inside a field control cabinet with breakers and terminals — 45Field cabinet, breakers and terminals

Patch panel with structured network cabling and switch ports — 47Structured cabling and switch ports

Overhead distribution line and insulators on a utility pole — 50Distribution line and insulators

Alternative energy plant with rows of solar panels — 53Rows of modules, alternative energy plant

Robots welding a car body on an automotive production line — 56Robotic welding on a body line

Illustration of PLC programming and control hardware development on an engineering bench — 59Development: programming bench · Illustration

Illustrative scene: battery energy storage installation — 62Battery energy storage install · Illustration

Illustrative automotive industrial scene — 65Automotive line · Illustration

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