Services

• Consulting
• Applied research and development
• Writing of control concepts
• Compiling of specification lists
• Development of customized products
• Writing of expert reports
• Studies

Key Areas

• Process automation
  • Concept development and implementation of process controls and process monitoring systems in process technology and textile engineering, including for different kinds of processing machines based on complex systems
  • Application of standard VME-BUS systems in high-demand applications with respect to processing speed
  • Automation of quality testing using neuronal networks
  • Application of standard programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in complex control environments, especially involving medium-rate drive controls with strict requirements with respect to precision and dynamics

• Control
  • Development of temperature and drive controls based on fuzzy logic
  • Concept development and implementation of complex control setups, e.g., decoupling and optimization of multivariable systems, especially involving the decoupling and optimization of elastic or inelastic coupled multi-motor drives
  • Development of new algorithms for programmable logic controllers aimed at observing, identifying and controlling dynamic processes and the adaptive control of time-variable sequences
  • Implementation of special controls in complex environments with respect to rigidity, precision and dynamics
  • Simulation of complex systems

• Customized microcomputer controls
  • Initiation and support with introduction of microcomputer controls into new fields
  • Development of software and hardware for customized control equipment

• Dialog and diagnosis systems
  • Development and implementation of dialog and monitoring systems for man-machine communication
  • Control and parameter programming for measurement equipment

Project Examples

• Machine for continuous elastic and inelastic product lines
• Dialog and diagnosis system for textile machines
• Development of measuring equipment to gauge throughput, based on contact-free measurement using Coriolis principles
• Development of equipment control programs under Windows
• Dynamic simulation of rotating scissors, development and implementation of ultra-precision control of rotating scissors used to shorten continuous product lines (e.g., metal plates)
• Order management, capturing of operating data and statistics for a production machine
• Concept development and implementation of a modular control package for an SPS range
• Connection of intelligent sensors to a field bus system
• Analysis and simulation of a multiple-motor drive for a continuous annealing line
• Quality testing system for mechanical component modules with rotating parts
• Evaluation of theoretical principles and concept development for the control of a mechanical surface sensor
• Planning of a control design and implementation of a cross table regulator
• Analysis, planning, RFP and commissioning of a network control center for electricity, gas and water supplies to a town with 50,000 inhabitants. Key priority: open system architecture and sufficient system redundancy. The network included 2 database servers and up to 10 workstations.
• Checking and planning of electrical equipment in a sewage treatment facility. Coordination of planning specialists and different part suppliers.
• Development of master software for PC, including communication layer firmware for Profibus PA sensors and HARTTM sensors
• Development of a reliable regulator for winders/unwinders in textile manufacture
• Development of hardware and software for modular burner regulation
• Concept development and development of software for visualizing process data, allowing for further processing of already processed measurement data via intranet/Internet. Connection of visualization to processes possible via modem, ISDN, network or Internet