EN Automation - EN Engineering

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Power and Energy

EN Automation is one of the premier systems integrators serving the electric utility industry, including the traditional (coal and gas) and renewable (wind, solar, and hydro) energy sectors. We are CSIA-certified and our highly trained staff of professionals deliver expertise and critical guidance to help electric utilities achieve their operational, compliance, and efficiency objectives. Our team understands the challenges that our clients face because many have years of direct experience working for electric utility companies and bring an operator’s perspective to the solutions we provide.

The services that we offer include feasibility studies, control system design and software development, commissioning, and testing. EN Automation has extensive experience with a wide range of automation platforms. We build teams around our clients and establish long term relationships. We listen and develop an in-depth understanding of their needs and the challenges that they face. This approach enables us to deliver customized solutions utilizing the appropriate technology that best meets their technical, operational and budgetary requirements. Our team of utility and automation experts can provide a wide range of project delivery options from staff augmentation through turnkey project execution, as well as consulting and training services.

Food and Beverage

EN Automation is a leading systems integrator providing innovative and reliable automation solutions to clients in all areas of food and beverage processing and packaging including bakery, ingredients, pet food, and meat processing. We support automation modernization and digital transformation initiatives through roadmap development, engineering design, system implementation, project management, and business analytics. Our engineering teams are positioned in regional offices nationwide and are equipped to provide solutions for even the most complex challenges. When deadlines press or on-site consultation is impractical, our remote capabilities provide real-time solutions with absolute confidence.

We offer a full range of automation system integration services – PLC, HMI, SCADA, MES, drives, motion control, machine safety, ERP interfacing, database management, and industrial network services. We carry the highest levels of certifications from industry leading hardware and software providers as well as CSIA, thereby ensuring that our standards and processes meet rigorous industry requirements and that the solutions we provide meet or exceed expectations. Client satisfaction is demonstrated by our 98% customer retention rate and our goal is helping clients lead the way in the Food and Beverage Industry 4.0 revolution.

Water and Wastewater

The problems faced by water and wastewater treatment facilities include regulation changes, aging infrastructure, and cybersecurity concerns. To help our clients meet these and other challenges, EN Automation provides automation expertise starting with full SCADA design, HMI and PLC programming, and commissioning services. Our engineers and project managers have an in-depth understanding of automation best practices and quality control in new construction or modernization projects. We serve the full spectrum of water/wastewater applications including municipal, industrial, and equipment manufacturers.

Our team’s expertise in cybersecurity provides solutions vital to the protection of critical infrastructure as required by U.S. governmental guidance programs to receive funding for these security features. Our combined knowledge and expertise in infrastructure, process, standards, and software provides a safer, more robust and reliable water and wastewater plant environment.

Rail Transportation

EN Automation provides cutting-edge software technologies critical to effective decision-making in the rail transportation industry. Rail transportation control systems are far more capable and fine-tuned when data and information are available and delivered in fractions of seconds. That technological advantage provides the ability for control systems to make adjustments that are vital when managing large equipment and heavy payloads.

Rail transportation companies excel in the selection of rugged equipment ranging from train cars to tracks designed to handle intense payload and physical forces. Yet much of that equipment comes with software features that depend on managers fully understanding their capabilities. EN Automation partners with transportation managers to maximize the potential of all equipment, systems, and networks. Our technical and software experts partner with clients to fuel data that drives better use of equipment and signals to make rail transportation a safer and more effective enterprise including retarder, hump yard, right of way, cuts, wheel contamination, busy season, downtime, and moveables. Rail transportation is full of ebbs and flows, but the right data and information optimizes every function and time of year. EN Automation delivers those insights with consistency, reliability, and innovation.

Industrial Manufacturing

EN Automation partners with industrial operators seeking to eliminate the problems and expense associated with downtime resulting from mechanical and process inefficiencies. We team with your organization to identify automation integration opportunities in batching, processing, packaging, and waste reduction to deliver hands-off, reliable, and efficient systems. From tracking and saving optimal settings to collecting and interpreting data to find system downtime and bottlenecks, our industrial engineering experts help our clients establish reliable processes including exceptional control and cross-platform communication.

Our approach is transparent, proactive, and enables clients to track and troubleshoot their own systems once best practices are implemented. There’s no “black box” ownership of your data by us. We provide open solutions with clearly documented logic to help you develop a system that you own completely, delivers real-time answers, and can be updated as technology and market changes demand. Our digitalization software and systems expertise includes: MES – Manufacturing Execution System, ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning, SIL – Safety Integrity Level, OEE – Overall Equipment Effectiveness, EOHS – Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety, and ANSI/ISA-88 (S88) Batch. We also offer experienced startup support teams and a range of engineers skilled in diverse industries and applications.

Oil and Gas

EN Automation is one of the leading systems integrators for the oil and gas industry. We’re capable of implementing the most advanced technologies or addressing the challenges of legacy systems in need of support, repair, or replacement. Our nationwide team of automation professionals uses both local and remote support to contend with the challenges ranging from control system diversity to regulatory changes and defense against cyberattack. EN engineers and project managers offer extensive industry experience in all types of oil and gas facilities including compressor stations, pump stations, terminals, tank farms, and pipeline SCADA systems.

From turnkey implementation to dealing with the pressures of limited resources and time, we provide dedicated teams to support our clients and build relationships based on communication and customizing solutions to service facilities in all types of condition and environments. With that perspective in mind, our team can direct feasibility studies, lead design and software development, and conduct commissioning and start-up as needed. Our quality standards include CISA defined auditing and certification in virtually all leading hardware and software automations. The EN Automation team offers depth in terms of years of experience and breadth of knowledge in the oil and gas industry. From that foundation we are also progressive innovators capable of bringing your facilities up to speed in every facet of operation, efficiency, and fiscal management.

SERVICES

EN Automation provides expertise and support to virtually every major automation hardware and software platform from current state-of-the-art-systems to obsolete legacy systems. This wide-ranging experience, coupled with our expertise in IT, networking, and MES enables us to design and integrate systems that communicate and function seamlessly to provide comprehensive control networks that automate facilities for a wide range of energy, industrial, and manufacturing applications.

Beyond single-site local control and visualization, EN Automation creates large-scale SCADA systems on a variety of platforms. That includes integration of advanced capabilities needed by the modern control rooms such as shift log and handover, audit history, alarm management, reporting, and other robust solutions. To build these systems, we leverage the latest visualization techniques using human-science insights to deliver greater situational awareness and enhanced decision making. These capabilities enable us to create architectures that solve current business needs via a modern, future-proof framework.

Our engineers work on a variety of the major platforms in the PLC/PAC space, leveraging abstraction and modern design in the solutions we create. Efficiency and performance are the primary motivators, backed by our commitment to quality, safety, and robustness that our customers demand. EN Automation also consults in advanced communications and custom protocol development, sophisticated loop control and monitoring, template-based design and unit-testing, tight integration with HMI systems, and other aspects of PLC programming where innovative solutions are required.

Data is at the heart of EN Automation’s work across all PLC/HMI/SCADA disciplines, effectively moving data between systems via SQL databases, web APIs, and ERP integrations. Our engineers collaborate to create custom data solutions in a variety of languages and architectures to best suit the need of our clients. Our leadership in data democratization is setting the stage for broader, unfettered access to critical, real-time process data that helps drive business solutions.

Data is the most important and requisite input to systems of many kinds. We maximize the value of customer data in context with priorities to derive better insights on your plant or facility operations. Our engineers excel in working with large volumes of historical data, using tools that leverage data yield to deliver clear, actionable results. Superior integration of these tools creates a cohesive system that allows for “operationalizing” insights to drive decisions. We assist in applying best-in-class data analytics solutions to new or existing facilities as a means to accelerate growth and maximize efficiency.

EN Automation control panel design and fabrication helps data driven industrial leaders in the energy, utility, and general industrial spaces by providing full-spectrum consulting and engineering expertise to guide clients from concept through design, fabrication, and testing. We support automation modernization and digital transformation initiatives by providing full turnkey services that lead to UL508A standards qualification and self-certification. These include in-house certification options to Class 1, Division 2. The EN Automation design team excels in providing the full design scope and this intensive knowledge allows collaboration with the panel fabrication shop to deliver flawless execution and reliable results. There is tremendous value and potential ROI in optimizing and automating archaic processes for greater efficiency and performance.

Our depth of resources and breadth of expertise provides expert commissioning and startup services for systems ranging from a single unit control panel to an entire pipeline control system. Our services include software commissioning, point-to-point checkout, calibration, control, instrumentation, and electrical system commissioning. Our commissioning personnel are highly trained and certified by independent agencies. We provide commissioning services ranging from staff augmentation of our client’s commissioning team through complete management and coordination of the commissioning program. As needed, we have assembled teams of up to 30 personnel to execute commissioning work for very large projects.

EN Automation engineers design industrial solutions built to high standards in reliability, robustness, and performance. Modern industrial networks need to support higher volumes of data at higher rates, all with unmatched reliability and high availability. Our engineers and IT experts design network solutions to meet the most aggressive data demands today. Our partnerships with premier cybersecurity software solutions experts integrates high levels of awareness and visibility within your network to measure its integrity and performance. Proactive monitoring identifies potential threats and abnormal behaviors that threaten the ability to keep your facilities running and secure.

Our engineering teams collaborate to create small-scale or multi-site enterprise MES deployments. We understand the deep and intrinsic value of production data, performance and downtime metrics, quality-sample capture, and statistical analysis, and how to integrate this data into a comprehensive and operational solution. With skills in a variety of MES platforms, we help our clients transform complicated facility, machine, and equipment models and data into well-structured clean digital representations. We help our clients bridge the gap between local facility data systems and upstream ERP systems through web APIs, database exchange, or other custom methods. These methods improve inventory and lot tracking, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and asset utilization (AU), production, and work order management. Our teams specialize in bringing all these aspects into an intuitive and cohesive system instead of an amalgamation of disparate systems.

Our design team provides a complete range of electrical and design services for all electrical and instrumentation systems within a facility including, but not limited to, substations, switchgear, MCCs, E-houses, motor starters, and VFDs, medium and low voltage distribution systems, lighting, security systems, control panels, instrumentation systems, communication, and control networks. We also have extensive experience in performing power system studies. Our team consists of electrical engineers, instrumentation engineers, designers, and drafters with extensive experience in a wide range of applications and industries. Many of our engineers are registered professional engineers.

With our industry background and automation platform experience, we are well qualified to review and analyze control systems to ensure they provide reliable, efficient, and safe operation. We are well equipped to evaluate the software, hardware, and network components of these systems. Our team can develop or modify functional documents, operating manuals, cause and effect matrices, and other documents to ensure that the functionality of the control system is accurately documented. Our team can also review the control system and develop recommendations to correct operational and safety issues, improve reliability, and enhance efficiency. We also have the capability to test and validate the operation of these control systems. Additionally, we can help our clients develop migration strategies to upgrade and modernize their control systems.

We have the expertise to help our clients develop automation and network strategies to control their facilities. Our wide-ranging knowledge of automation platforms across a broad spectrum of industries enables us to develop plans to design the optimal control systems for specificity in applications. Feasibility studies include functional specifications, network architecture, migration strategies, cost estimates, and schedules.

Our project managers have extensive industry and project execution experience to consult and collaborate in control system design and software development. We also provide leadership and coordination between other engineering / consulting firms, vendors, and installation contractors and excel in management of the commissioning process. Our project managers are supported by a project controls team that provides scheduling, budget tracking, and other project controls related services.

EN Automation leverages an internal e-learning platform for authoring and sharing content between engineers. This also enables our teams to deliver in-person and virtual operator training for the systems we design and develop. Coupled with our simulation capabilities, we provide a system that emulates simple behaviors of a real system and allows operators to become comfortable with an application and general layout. We can also deploy custom e-learning solutions allowing organizations and associates to conduct self-driven and repeated training, gauge relative understanding through quizzes and activities, and capture completion metrics for your records.