Consultancy and Project Management
Consultancy
OP-TEC Systems is a highly flexible and innovative engineering consultancy, specialising in "open" process control and information systems. We apply a Total Quality approach to systems engineering, and are committed to providing full support at every stage of every project. This commitment is implemented by highly qualified professionals with proven track records; from single-loop to enterprise-wide installations.
OP-TEC Systems provides life-cycle support from the conception of the project to the conclusion of active operation.If appropriate OP-TEC staff can be assigned as a project resource, to work within the client's team and we are happy to welcome our clients' engineers into our own project teams.
Feasibility and design studies save you money by:
- Considering the objectives, not just the means
- Paying attention to lifetime costs
- Providing comprehensive technical and commercial proposals.
Wide-ranging design studies consider plant optimisation, energy efficiency, repeatability, management information, links to corporate computing, integration with existing equipment, cost of ownership, fault tolerance, security and more.
OP-TEC's engineers have provided open connectivity and multi-vendor inter-operability for many years and the company continues to support established standards, as well as working with emerging world standards such as OPC and Fieldbus. This approach allows the user to mix and match hardware and software packages to optimise any plant information system.
Process control as an island of automation is rapidly giving way to a broader perspective. OP-TEC Systems helps to ensure the integrity of the process control system, whilst integrating real time process data with plant operation and business information systems. The survival of many manufacturing plants depends increasingly on reacting quickly to information about costs, capacity, quality, market conditions, environmental and regulatory factors.
OP-TEC engineers provide the expertise to meet the challenge of all aspects of control and instrumentation projects, including project management, the integration of specialist sub-systems from other suppliers, existing process control equipment and management information systems.
Our consultants are ready and able to provide the following services to help your business prosper:
- Process analysis
- Project definition
- Feasibility studies
- Process simulation
- Project management
- Systems engineering
- Control system design
- Functional specifications
- Control system specification
- Strategic automation planning
- Training (in-house and on-site)
- System assembly and checkout
- Installation and commissioning
- Maintenance and application/system support
Project Management
For each new project, we assign a multi-discipline Project Leader, to work closely with the client. This provides a single point of contact and over-all vision, essential for defining and realising the control and information systems which will best meet the client's overall objectives.
Markets and technology are changing rapidly for both customer and supplier. Only with mutual understanding can effective, efficient and profitable long-term solutions be designed, implemented and operated.
The Project Leader can draw from our associated companies, strategic partners, informal alliances and other complementary resources. OP-TEC's open systems approach, together with extensive market knowledge of measurement and control systems, enables the project team to select the most appropriate hardware and software for the particular circumstances. This flexible and personalised service enables us to develop a clear understanding of the project requirements, ensuring that our Clients' wider business needs are fully addressed.
A straightforward problem-solving philosophy and an intensive dialogue between user and vendor based on a broad spectrum of experience are essential to achieve the "best" solution for each site.