Automation & Integration

Providing Answers for A Vast List of Process and Industry Control Challenges.

IS has combined controls engineering experience in the hundreds of man-years.  Our engineers have developed project solutions in industries as diverse as water treatment, medical device manufacturing, ultra-pure crystal manufacturing, renewables, and energy storage systems. We exist to bring this expertise to focus on your special situations.

Primarily IS provides PLC-centric control solutions for industrial manufacturing.  This ranges from green-field and new project controls development through process upgrade designs and modifications to poorly documented, aging control systems. IS prides ourselves as maintaining independence from any specific control platforms which makes us the ideal solution when support is needed for obscure systems or interfacing diverse systems into one.

    It is IS International’s Policy to Never Force Our Clients to be Dependent on Us.

     

    Unless specifically requested by them, we never lock down the controller programming and we always strive to provide well-documented code.

    We maintain complete project-level engineering solutions.

    When appropriate, IS International Services provides I&C design for P&IDs, develops sequences of operation, and reviews process control strategies as a function of project design.

    During the execution phase of projects, our roles often include sensing element and actuator selection and application, logic and graphics design, network infrastructure development, and OEM equipment interfacing.

    Typical Project Activities

    • Plant/site walk down
    • Detailed pre-project investigations including as-builts of existing conditions and key documents such as P&ID’s, panels drawings, I/O wiring, etc.
    • Feasibility studies and budgets for appropriation
    • HAZOP and LOPA functional safety reviews
    • Safety instrumented systems design, review, and implementation
    • Area classification design and installation requirements (Class I-Div 1, Class I-Div2)
    • Critical and back-up power design and support
    • Development of hardware/software functional specification to define project/system scope for projects
    • Designs and fabrication of the control and marshaling panels and interface systems including detailed loop and interconnect drawings
    • HMI and network topology design
    • Customized machine guard design with a focus on usability
    • Riser drawings for system communication, cabling and connection requirements
    • Instrumentation specifications
    • Procurement documentation development
    • Vendor and equipment selection assistance
    • Field device and electrical installation
    • Commissioning and start-up
    • Customer training

    IS provides experienced personnel for Hazardous Area Design and staff certified TÜV SÜD Functional Safety Engineers for Machine Safety Applications.