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Principal Technology's multi-discipline engineering departments combined with in-house control systems, fabrication, and manufacturing capabilities create a comprehensive System Integration ecosystem that provides single-point responsibility to execute our customer's most creative and demanding projects.
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“System Integration” can mean as many different things as there are different industries that need to bring disparate sub-systems together.
For us, it was an easy decision back in 1999 to expand our engineering services business to include controls and packaged equipment fabrication. We founded Principal Technology to provide sound engineered designs across multiple technical disciplines to produce efficient Integrated Solutions.
Our System Integration and Fabrication (SI&F) group provides custom-engineered, design-build, and build-to-print control systems and packaged equipment solutions for a broad industrial portfolio, from simple PLC Control Panels for water supply, pump, and filtration packages to complex Safety Instrumented Systems, Burner Management, and integrated Fuel Train packages.
In addition to our custom-engineered capabilities, our pre-engineered systems function as building blocks to efficiently meet many of our customer’s complex control challenges without the expense of “starting from a clean sheet of paper.”
Principal Technology, Inc. is a UL-certified engineering and fabrication company for Industrial Control Panels for general purpose, hazardous locations, and explosion-proof applications.
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 morePrincipal 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.
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.
PTI’s Engineering & Control System team developed a standard design approach to provide high-quality cost-effective control panels. Ask us about our 8, 16, and 32-Pack PLC panels.
PTI is proud to work with a variety of industry partners. This multi-year, multi-project relationship provided a unique opportunity to collaborate with our customer’s engineering department to design and build a semi-standard engine automation system. Our work merged our client’s technology and know-how with PTI’s engineering and control panel manufacturing capabilities to produce a branded control system to support their engineered products business unit.
PTI engineers and system integration group have the experience to tackle small stand-alone packaged control systems to large-scale plant-wide automation systems. This project included both the safety shutdown system and the process control system integrated into a single modular e-house that housed the unit’s motor control center. The system was designed and fabricated in Plano, Texas, and shipped to the end-user.
The pre-shipment Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) included a fully hardwired function test and design review with our client’s engineering, operations, and maintenance stakeholders. The extensive design review and off-site function test reduced the installation and commissioning time by over 50% and minimized the on-site congestion during the project’s construction phase.
We first built our controls lab to provide our employees and customer stakeholders with a comfortable work environment to aid our collaborative design process. In 2022 we are proud to announce that we have completed a significant renovation to expand our square footage and technology. Our lab now includes additional PLC platforms, remote IO, and networking capabilities integrated with our controls fabrication shop.
Below are just a few of the capabilities our upgraded lab provides:
Principal Technology maintains UL certification in the following industrial control panel categories. This certification can be incredibly important to our customers. Electrical Inspectors and authorized inspectors often require control panels to carry the UL certification.
UL 508A Certification – Industrial Control Panels
UL 698A Certification – Industrial Control Panels Relating to Hazardous (Classified) Locations
UL 1203 Certification – Explosion Proof and Dust-Ignition Proof Electrical Equipment for Use in Hazardous (Classified) Locations
In addition to maintaining these certifications, our engineering and system integration group often works with UL and other Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories (NRTL) to obtain specific certifications through limited production run testing and field inspections.
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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