Fully integrated, safe and reliable control strategies and control system optimization are the key to ensuring peak performance and productivity. Today, all well-run operations are utilizing the full capabilities of their control systems to increase capacity and reduce cost. Cogent provides expertise in control system design and configuration, including implementing the right control strategy and industrial automation systems.
> Control System Design
Leveraging industry standards and best practices, Cogent provides design services for plant-wide automation & control systems to ensure high reliability and maintainability with minimal spare parts inventory. Cogent’s team of experts can select and implement the proper control strategy to improve quality control, better respond to changing input variables and reduce downtime.
> PLC System Configuration & Optimization
Cogent’s highly skilled team is experienced with a wide range of major PLC vendors. We offer technical services to design hardware, program, commission and optimize your control system equipment to meet the needs of your processes and business. Cogent can work with existing customer standards or utilize Cogent’s reusable templates to program systems that are easy to maintain and troubleshoot.
> HMI & SCADA Systems
Operator interfaces provide a very useful function for operator command and control. However, when upsets occur, operators need relevant information to guide them through these events. Leveraging best-in-class industry standards and our in-depth experience in Human Factors Engineering, Cogent offers HMI and SCADA solutions that allow operators to easily and intuitively understand and control their processes effectively. From small HMI implementations to large-scale SCADA systems, Cogent offers a multitude of solutions for human-machine interface design.
> Simulation Testing
To reduce the risks of onsite commissioning, Cogent offers testing services to demonstrate Factory Acceptance on Cogent developed or OEM developed PLC & HMI configurations/programming. This hands-on testing provides the OEM, operators & maintenance personnel with the opportunity to review and test elements and address defects prior to site commissioning.
> Change Control & Recovery
Cogent offers expertise in implementing change control and recovery programs for your control system. This will ensure that changes to the system are introduced in a controlled and coordinated manner and logic changes can be logged and communicated effectively. Change control can reduce the possibility of introducing faults into the system or unintentionally undoing other changes, allowing operations to improve safety and achieve minimal disruption to production.
> Process Historians
Extracting the value from all the data produced within an industrial operation or facility requires the right toolsets to produce and access meaningful information. Cogent offers expertise in the integration of process data from disparate real-time sources into process historians, and the effective deployment of all the tools to visualize and analyze this captured data. Cogent offers experience with all the major historian software companies. Our services are focused on proven methods to collect and cleanse data and provide a reliable data integration solution.
> Device Integration & Network Communications
Cogent’s staff offer extensive experience in industrial IT/OT systems. We know how to connect to all the diverse communication protocols on the plant floor enabling device connectivity to maximize the value of data. Our device integration services provide connections to a broad range of systems within the operation and IIOT solutions including PLCs, BMS, RTUs, DCSs, intelligent devices and controllers. Cogent has experience with most of the industrial networks/buses including: Ethernet/IP, Modbus/TCP, DeviceNet, ControlNet, Profibus, Profinet, Modbus, BACNet and others.