Colyton Industrial Designs for industrial automation
Colyton Industrial Designs
is a control systems design consultancy based in the South West of England that can provide software based solutions for your business.
The control systems that we have designed range from simple 20 I/O PLC's controlling a small machine to a complete integrated PLC system of over thirty PLC's controlling a complete production system all linked back to a PC based production control system.
During the early 1980's we designed a GEM80 PLC based system to control a PVC mixing plant replacing an existing solid state control system that had reached the end of its life as spares were no longer available. The graphics capability and analog signal processing of the GEM 80 range provided an ideal PLC for the application allowing a dynamic visual display long before PC's were used on the factory floor.
Since the advent of Windows 2000 we have supplied PC based sytems, often linked to a PLC, to provide an operator interface to the machine, using either Scada systems or custom software specifcally designed for the application. We have used a 4GL programming language to provide a HMI interface to Siemens S7 PLC's for a large marking system that was designed to meet a detailed specification from the customer. The interface included a realtime display of the sensor signals, logging of all data transmissions between the marking unit and the factories host system. The host system responds to requests for information from the marking unit and requires reporting back on the progress of the mark, and detailed information on the quality of the mark from a camera system integrated into the control system.
The PC based designs provide graphic solutions for monitoring processes but we do not use PC's for direct industrial control, for this requires real time control which is best provided by PLC solutions. These have included Allen Bradley, Siemens, Telemechanique and many other PLCs selected to provide the most economic solutions.
Product Design
Our qualified engineers can supply a complete design service from Electronic Circuit Design through PCB layout and manufacture of prototype products.
CI Designs have specific experience in custom marking applications using laser, pin stamp and scribe marking technologies for a wide range of industries from aerospace to automotive. We have links to several comapnies and together we can provide complete solutions to your marking problems.
We work closely with Telesis Technologies Inc. to provide software support for custom marking solutions.
We have in depth knowledge of web page design and through our sister company
