System Integration
Our 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.
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Principal Technology engineers, designers, and panel builders have extensive experience designing and building control panels and automation systems from a broad range of automation and control system manufacturers.
Our engineers have extensive experience with all major IEC 61131-3 programming languages, including ladder logic, function block, structured text, and sequential function charts.
Principal Technology is also a Rockwell Automation Recognized System Integrator. Our expertise includes the major Allen Bradley platforms, from legacy PLC5 and SLC PLCs, mid-sized CompactLogix and Compact GuardLogix systems, to the advanced ControlLogix and GuardLogix platforms.
Our team can work within your project’s needs. Our experience includes everything from build & test only – shipping your control panel “cold” for programming by your engineers – to full turn-key logic development, programming, and function testing. Our engineers are available to support your on-site commissioning loop checks and Site Acceptance function testing (SAT).
We have also developed a “hybrid” programming approach in which we preload your control system with the current firmware, IO function blocks, your project-specific instrument tags, and ranges before shipment so that your engineers can jump-in and start the control logic development, saving time for the “administrative” overhead of configuring a new system.
Using our updated Controls Lab, we provide your engineers with a comfortable work environment while participating in Factory Acceptance Testing at our shop. We can also offer a VPN network connection so your team can remote access your system without leaving home.
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 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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Remote and Distributed IO Panels for most major automation manufacturers. Redundant and fault-tolerant networks. EthernetIP, ControlNet, Foundation FieldBus, HART, and Modbus.
Foldable HMI sun shields, external power and programming ports, laptop tables, replacement fuse kits, enclosure lighting, intrusion detection, insulation, heating and cooling.
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.
Principal Technology designed and built this Foxboro Distributed IO system integrated into a purged and pressurized e-House for a process plant in the northwestern US. The purged and pressurized control building allowed us to consolidate the separate process control and safety systems into a single climate-controlled building designed for the harsh winter conditions experienced at the plant.
Principal Technology provided this Schneider Modicon PAC with Remote IO for an LNG facility in the US. Our engineers also provided on-site support for commissioning loop tests and site acceptance function tests (SAT) for this project.
PTI’s project portfolio includes extensive experience with Allen Bradly PLCs and IO Platforms. Our experience includes numerous safety and high availability process control systems, including redundant processors and power supplies, distributed remote IO over redundant star, device-level ring, and other fault-tolerant IO networks for both traditional IO and field communications protocols.
The projects shown here from our project portfolio represent just a few of the possible configurations available with the Logix platform – Redundant ControlLogix PLC with Remote Logix IO, Foundation Fieldbus in explosion-proof NEMA 7/9 cast enclosure, and Flex IO.
Our engineers, designers, and panel builders built this Triconex safety system for an Oxygen Enrichment unit at a major US Refinery. PTI built and tested the system in our Plano, Texas facility and then shipped it to the field where our customer’s in-house control engineers programmed the system to integrate with their existing distributed control architecture. PTI engineers were on-site for commissioning and start-up.
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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