Industry: Life Sciences & Pharmaceuticals

A large-scale SCADA migration enabled enterprise-wide control with zero production downtime.

ECS Solutions, Inc., recently completed a large-scale SCADA migration for a fortune 500 food manufacturing client.  This upgrade was noteworthy based on the size of the facility-wide project and the fact that it was executed using Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform coupled with the Perspective visualization module as the basis of design.  This client has embarked Full Story

ECS Solutions, Inc. (ECS), worked with a world leader in nutritional products to tie together the most critical software tools used in their dry ingredient manufacturing.  This project merged the capabilities of the existing inventory tracking system with the robust batch processing capabilities in the company’s final assembly area. The client’s existing inventory management system Full Story

A major pharmaceutical company was in the process of commissioning a control system for a new process cell and asked ECS to provide site support to complete the commissioning and qualification. The control system supplier had taken a simplistic approach to keep costs down. A single controller with multiple Panelviews provided the heart of the Full Story

A large pharmaceutical company was commissioning and testing a new control system that was limited to providing only manual control of Equipment Modules.  In some cases, manual control of Phases was available, with these Phases operating as coordination Equipment Modules but not having the infrastructure capable of interacting with a standard sequencing engine.  To run Full Story