Support, retrofit and consulting

An automation system needs looking after once acceptance testing is over. We work on existing plants, including ones designed by others, and support the client at the stages where technical choices weigh most: evaluating an investment, writing a specification, commissioning a new machine.

For organisations of every size

Where automation has no dedicated in-house team, we become the technical reference at the decisive stages: investment evaluation, specifications, acceptance testing.

In organisations with their own engineering department the contribution is different:

• Extra capacity at project peaks, without adding to headcount
• Specialist expertise (functional safety, motion control, PC-based architectures) in support of in-house engineering
• A single technical reference to align standards and suppliers across several plants
• Independent verification of third-party supplies before acceptance
• Continuity of documentation and know-how even when people change

Independent verification during acceptance testing

During the commissioning and SAT of a supply we carry out an independent technical verification on behalf of the client. It is not there to hunt for mistakes: it is there to make the builder of the machine and the people who will run it for the next fifteen years speak the same language.

In practice that means verifying that what has been delivered matches what the specification says, that acceptance tests are run under realistic conditions, that documentation and software access are complete, and that safety functions are validated rather than merely declared. The client gets an independent technical reading of what they are accepting; the builder gets a competent counterpart with whom open points can be settled straight away, instead of surfacing as a dispute months later.