Industrial control systems, engineered right first time.
Advance Automation Ltd designs, programs and commissions control systems for manufacturing lines, robot cells and process plant — over 30 years of hands-on experience with Siemens, Allen-Bradley, Mitsubishi, Omron and the major robot brands.
End-to-end control system engineering
PLC Programming
Siemens S7/TIA Portal, Allen-Bradley SLC500/ControlLogix, Mitsubishi and Omron platforms, including safety PLC systems.
Robot Integration
ABB, Fanuc and Yaskawa cell design and programming for handling, gluing, gauging and assembly applications.
Cognex Vision Systems
Feature recognition and orientation integrated into robot pick coordinates, plus pass/fail determination and data matrix quality grading across various OEM-built machines.
HMI & SCADA
Operator interfaces and plant-wide SCADA — from WinCC and RSView to bespoke VB.NET and Ignition systems.
Data Acquisition & SPC
High-speed monitoring, traceability and statistical process control systems tied into factory management and QMS platforms.
Commissioning
Power-up checks, instrumentation set-to-work, fault finding, PID tuning and customer witnessed SAT/FAT support.
Drives & Motion
Servo and drive integration, including multi-axis Devicenet systems and complex motion sequencing.
Trusted by systems houses, OEMs and end users
Since 1994, Advance Automation Ltd has delivered control software for names including Ford Motor Company, Walkers Crisps, Mahle, GKN, Delphi Diesel Systems and AWE — usually as the engineer trusted to write every line of the control software from scratch, to spec, and get it running first time.
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