Providing PLC control systems, SCADA systems, MES systems, integration to ERP systems.

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Industrial Control and Management Systems

Cougar Automation is a major supplier of industrial control and management systems. We can supply systems that span all of the 5 levels of the ISA S95 model: from ERP connectivity down to control panels. It is really unusual to find the broad mix of skills needed to do this in one supplier, but at Cougar Automation we have consciously worked at recruitment, training and strategic partnerships so that we can offer you a one-stop-shop. 

Level 4

If your organisation has an ERP system or other management information system, wouldn't it make sense to link it to your shop floor systems? But so often this connection is not made, resulting in costly and inaccurate double entry of data or simply not having information available to the people who need it.

A major reason for shop floor systems not being connected to management systems is that these systems are supplied and managed by different specialists. These specialists don't have the experience of each other's worlds and almost talk a different language. As a result, it often seems more difficult than it really is to bridge the gap between shop floor and management information systems. This is where Cougar Automation can help. With our focus on people and relationships, combined with our wide span of skills and experience, we can help you bridge the gap. You may be surprised how cheap and simple it is to start gaining the advantages of this connection.

Level 3

Do you want to make your manufacturing or process operations world class? If so, you need to be considering systems to help you manage your shop floor operations.

Need to get more product through your plant? Then find and eliminate the bottlenecks with downtime and reliability systems (often referred to as OEE).

Swamped with paperwork and forms? Retyping the data from the forms into spreadsheets? Strugling to read what is written on the forms? Cut out all this unproductive waste with record management systems. Data entered directly as part of the job, validated there and then, accurate and imediately available.

With our experience of plant management systems, our ability to stand in your shoes and see it from your point of view, and or knowledge of standard applications and custom solutions we can help you solve your plant management challenges.

Level 2

We can design and supply SCADA systems of any scale and complexity. Whether its a simple stand-alone visualisation solution with a few hundred tags, right up to multi-server, fault tolerant systems with hundreds of thousands of tags we can understand your needs and deliver the SCADA system you need. We have experience of all of the major SCADA applications so whatever your chosen platform we can deliver the SCADA you need.

If you need to capture historical plant data and then turn this data into information we can design and supply historians and associated reporting systems.

Batch control? We can deliver systems built from standard applications (e.g. InBatch, RSBatch) or custom solutions based on Microsoft's SQLServer product range.

Level 1

To be effective, your shop floor operation not only needs control system software that functions correctly, but also can be understood by your operators and technician and can be maintained and modified for years to come. We have extensive experience and skills in delivering these critical elements of the solution.

We have extensive experience and are accredited for all major platforms of PLC and HMI. In addition, we can deliver embedded and PC based real time control solutions using Microsoft technologies.

Level 0

Be it control panels, Motor Control Centres (MCC's), or the associated site cabling we can deliver all of the physical infrastructure to deploy any industrial control system. Our Low Voltage Assembly partner, Technical Control Systems, builds all of our control panels and MCC's. Supplying the physical infrastructure through our partners allows us to concentrate on what we do best and let our partners do what they do best. This ensures you can place a single contract confident in the knowledge that every aspect is designed and managed by a true expert in their field.