System Integration
Principal Technology's design team has over two decades of experience supporting our client's safety system challenges. Our System Integration group can build and test your safety control system to manufacturers and industry standards - or- our engineering team can complete a turn-key safety system design for your application.
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Our engineering team provides technical support for hazards analysis (PHA), layers of protection analysis (LOPA), safety instrumented system design, and determination of Safety Integrity Level for your safety functions.
PTI’s tightly integrated departments ensure the safety system design requirements carry through to the panel builders in our System Integration group through the Safety Instrument System design, fabrication, and testing.
We have the experience and know-how to design and build your system to meet industry standards, including ANSI/ISA84 Functional Safety Instrumented System and IEC 61508 – Functional Safety – Safety-Related Systems.
In addition to application-specific safety instrument systems, PTI has extensive experience with the major national standards for boilers, furnaces, and fluid heaters, including National Fire Protection Association, NFPA 85, 86, and 87.
Where required for a project, we also work with Nationally Recognized Testing Labs (NRLT) to secure 3rd party review and certification of our systems.
The tightly integrated engineering, system integration, and fabrication professionals at Principal Technology allow us to support diverse project scopes for a broad range of clients in various market sectors. Design-Build, Build-to-Print; cold-hardware, or turn-key logic development, configuration, testing, and anything in between, our project team is accustomed to tailoring our product and service offerings to meet our client's specific project needs.
learn moreOur engineers, designers, and panel builders have experience with all major PLC, PAC, and DCS manufacturers. Our project portfolio includes Allen Bradley SLC and Logix Families; Schneider Modicon, Triconex, and Foxboro; Siemens SIMATIC; Fisher Delta V and ROC platforms.
learn moreThe traditional architecture of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems has evolved a bit since we started PTI two decades ago. Our project portfolio includes numerous projects where our engineering and system integration teams have developed solutions to streamline our clients' day-to-day operations by integrating their data streams using traditional local control, wireless networking, and remote SCADA technologies.
learn morePrincipal Technology's System Integration group produces control panels and automation control systems that support the operations of our diverse industrial clientele. Our project portfolio ranges from simple relay or small PLC-based annunciator panels to complex process control and safety instrumented systems (SIS).
learn moreElectrical power systems of almost any type... from simple motor starters, electric heater power and control (HPP), variable frequency drives (VFDs), to advanced "smart" Motor Control Centers (MCCs)... Principal Technology's licensed engineers and System Integration & Fabrication group have the credentials, experience, and capabilities to take your project from Permit to Power-On.
learn moreProviding efficient engineered solutions remains a cornerstone of our Mission and Vision from when we founded Principal Technology in 1997. This goal usually requires more than just a Control Panel. PTI has a tightly integrated multi-discipline team of engineers, designers, and fabrication professionals under one roof to support this goal.
learn moreCloud Hosted SCADA and SCADA-as-a-Service platforms provide small and midsized operators security, hardware, software, and network management capabilities that parallel that of larger companies with dedicated IT departments.
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Standard flame safeguard controllers or Safety PLC designed systems per NFPA-85, 86, or 87. Single and multi-burner capable with integral combustion blower controls for packaged burners.
Modular combustion fuel trains to NFPA standards for containment protection, pressure safeties, S/D valves, and valve proving; designed to accommodate annual system function testing.
ANSI/ISA S84 Safety Instrumented Systems and Safety PLCs. Our Engineering team works with each customer to design a system to meet your Safety Integrity Level (SIL) requirements.
The NFPA 86 standard for Process Furnace Burner Management Systems is likely the most broadly applied industrial standard covering everything from roasting ovens and paint dryers to special atmosphere reactors, vacuum furnaces, thermal oxidizers, fume incinerators, vaporizers, and kilns.
Principal Technology has extensive experience developing process controls and safety systems for these applications. The Safety System, Combustion Controls, and Burner Management are only part of the equation.
Our process and mechanical engineers have the experience to support your project by determining the required pre-ignition purge volume flow rates and durations, minimum fire fuel and air settings, permissible ignition attempts, and the allowed operating envelope for the combustion burner equipment.
Principal Technology has helped many clients upgrade their existing process heaters with new NFPA 87 compliant burner management systems. In some cases, these are easy rip-and-replace projects that reuse most of the existing safety end devices connected to a new BMS control system.
Our designs can use built-for-purpose flame safeguards and combustion controllers, or Safety PLCs designed and built to meet the current safety standards. For many customers, Safety PLCs provide a flexible platform to maintain the convenience of a traditional PLC for Basic Process Control with segregated and secured Safety logic in a single integrated platform.
Other projects on older legacy equipment also require upgraded instruments and safety shut-off valves to meet the current standard. For these projects, our engineers work with our fabrication shop to build a modular BMS and Fuel Train skid that can be set in place pre-wired, tested, and ready to go.
Our project portfolio includes an extensive list of integrated process control and safety systems ranging from small single enclosure safety PLCs to complex whole unit automation systems with redundant processors and segregated safety IO installed in walk-in e-House control buildings.
PTI’s design approach and testing capabilities allow us to modularize these control systems and perform soft logic and fully hardwired function tests at our Plano, Texas offices.
Our Controls Lab allows us to work with our clients and project stakeholders in a comfortable facility to thoroughly review and test your system so that when it arrives on-site, the project team is confident in the system and can spend their valuable time focused on commissioning and start-up activities.
Principal Technology is a full service engineering firm with additional support for system integration, fabrication, sulfur recovery, amine treating, and a wide selection of turnkey solutions.
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