Industrial Processing
Continuous and batch process control across heavy industrial operations.
Industrial processing covers the continuous and batch operations that sit outside the sectors above — chemical handling, treatment processes and the utilities plant that supports them.
The control challenge is consistent: processes that cannot simply be stopped, instrumentation that has to be trusted, and safety cases that must hold under audit.
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The industrial processing control problem.
- Continuous processes with no natural stop pointControl strategies designed for processes that cannot simply be stopped, with degraded and maintenance modes defined rather than improvised.
- Instrumentation integrity and validationInstrumentation validation and loop integrity checking, so the control system is acting on numbers that can be trusted.
- Safety instrumented systems and SIL complianceSafety instrumented functions determined to SIL, verified, and documented to survive audit.
- Energy and utilities monitoringEnergy and utilities monitoring integrated into the same control layer, so consumption is visible alongside production.
How the control stack is usually built.
Every plant differs, but the layers rarely do. This is the shape most projects in this sector take.
- 01 · SupervisorySCADA, historian, energy and utilities monitoring
- 02 · Process controlPLC or DCS with continuous and batch strategies
- 03 · SafetySafety instrumented systems, HAZOP-derived functions
- 04 · NetworkIndustrial Ethernet with redundant plant backbone
- 05 · FieldProcess instrumentation, control valves, MCC and drives
What we bring to industrial processing.
- Capability
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Control Systems & Instrumentation
Control systems design, instrumentation, and project management from feasibility to handover.
- Differentiator
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Functional Safety
Safety PLC systems, risk assessment, PL and SIL determination, HAZOP and CHAZOP.
- Capability
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Reverse Engineering & System Upgrades
Undocumented plant made legible again — upgrades, diagnostics, audits and investigations.
The hardware we engineer across.
Vendor-neutral by design — which matters when your sites are not standardised on one platform.
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What operators usually ask.
What is a CHAZOP and do we need one?
A HAZOP examines the process; a CHAZOP examines the control and instrumentation that governs it. If your safety case depends on the control system behaving correctly, the second study is what tests that assumption.
Can you integrate energy monitoring?
Yes. Power control, monitoring and substation automation sit within our control systems capability, so consumption can be measured in the same layer as production rather than in a separate system.
Do you handle instrumentation as well as control?
Yes — controls and instrumentation are a single capability here. A control system is only as good as the measurements it acts on.
Something not answered here? Ask an engineer directly, or browse the Resource Centre.
Automation for industrial processing
Bring us the process constraint. We will tell you what the control layer actually needs to do about it.