Capabilities - Robotics, SCADA, OT
Industrial automation and controls
Systems that have to hold tolerance on a real floor.
What that means in practice
- Robotic cell design, controls architecture and systems integration
- PLC, drive and I/O architecture; motion and sequencing
- SCADA, historian and telemetry design for plant and field assets
- OT network segmentation into zones and conduits
- Safety-system boundaries kept outside the routed network
- Brownfield integration into lines that cannot stop
- Depth
- Commissioned automation systems designed and integrated end to end, including the industrial networking and safety argument around them.
- Who I bring in
- Machine builders, controls integrators, safety assessors.
- Scoping this
- Cycle time, uptime and the safety case are the three things worth scoping first.
Where I write about this
The newsletter follows what is changing here: one drawing, one decision worth revisiting, one tool used in anger, and what I am seeing across the network. Research worth reading gets cited when it changes a decision.
Adjacent
Rarely just one domain.
Most engagements touch three or four. These are the ones that usually come with it.
- R&D and special projects Feasibility, prototypes, hard problems
- RF, electromagnetics and analog Circuits, antennas, spectrum
- Semiconductor and programmable logic VLSI, ASIC, FPGA
- Embedded systems and device drivers Firmware, kernel, board bring-up
- Hardware manufacturing and supply ODM, DFM, certification
- Software engineering Systems, automation, quality
- Cloud and infrastructure architecture Hybrid, containers, automation
- Security engineering Architecture, identity, testing
- Governance, risk and compliance Audit, frameworks, fractional CISO
- Water, power and energy systems Treatment, generation, infrastructure
- Technical leadership and advisory Robotics, capital projects, family offices