DCS

As a vendor-neutral organization, Autopro resources have significant experience designing, programming, implementing, and supporting most major distributed control system (DCS) equipment used in industrial process automation applications. Our experience is not limited to the various current and legacy DCS gear, but also numerous communications protocols, networks, and bus systems supported by various manufacturers.

Autopro has completed hundreds of DCS-focused technology projects in large, complex operating facilities, spanning multiple industry segments, over the past 20 years. Our expertise extends beyond the DCS manufacturers equipment to the design and integration of various third-party control and application interfaces to provide a complete system solution.

Autopro has proven DCS design standards and processes resulting in high-quality configuration and testing/commissioning deliverables to ensure our customers' schedules and budgets are met. Autopro provides our customers with a significant amount of system retrofit expertise with demands for high-quality design and implementation skills to achieve short production shutdown windows and potential online, swing-over requirements.

Our DCS expertise includes:

• control strategy development and implementation
• logic description and control narrative development
• shutdown (S/D) key development
• simulation software development
• Control Check Out (CCO) tool for tracking/reporting progress and deficiencies during testing and commissioning