A full re-engineering of legacy control-panel wiring on a safety-critical poultry-processing line, replacing ageing direct-wired hardware with a structured IFM IO-Link architecture and surfacing live machine and safety status through a Siemens SIMATIC HMI and status annunciator panel.
Northern Ireland
A two-tank level control system for a food and beverage manufacturing customer, built on a Beckhoff CX8190 embedded PC and EtherCAT I/O rather than a simple float-switch or relay-based arrangement, to give the customer a clear path to integrate the system into their site SCADA in future.
Northern Ireland
A timer-controlled vacuum solenoid panel for an offal drop-out pot on a meat-processing line, built around a Siemens LOGO! rather than a full PLC, since the process is a single timed sequence with no case for the cost or complexity of a larger control platform.
Northern Ireland
A full servo control system upgrade on an automated sludge press used in wastewater treatment, replacing an obsolete Siemens 611U platform with a modern S120 drive system. The project was delivered through Park Automation for a water sector integrator client.
Northern Ireland
A bespoke Automatic Licence Plate Recognition system designed and built for a waste management and land regeneration business, combining edge computing, solar power management, cloud-based plate recognition, and automated compliance reporting. No suitable off-the-shelf solution existed for the operational constraints.
Northern Ireland
A deep learning vision system built to classify date codes on packaging in a live food manufacturing environment, using a convolutional neural network running on a Raspberry Pi. Developed as an MSc project at Ulster University and designed to solve a real quality control problem that had cost the business tens of thousands of pounds.
Northern Ireland
