Industrial Automation Division
Control.
Monitor.
Decide.
Engineering control, monitoring, and data systems for manufacturing — bridging shop floor and management in real time.
What we deliver
Six practice areas. One integrated stack.
PLC & SCADA Engineering
Siemens TIA Portal, Beckhoff TwinCAT, Rockwell Studio 5000. Greenfield builds and legacy retrofits with zero-downtime cutovers.
Industrial IoT & Edge
MQTT, OPC UA, Sparkplug B. Edge gateways feeding real-time cloud dashboards with sub-second latency.
MES & Production Analytics
Real-time OEE, shift-level downtime tracking, and quality metrics. From sensor to management dashboard in one pipeline.
Predictive Maintenance
Vibration, current signature, and thermal analytics with ML-based fault prediction. Catch failures before they stop production.
Robotics & Vision
UR, KUKA, FANUC cobot programming and machine vision (Cognex, Keyence) for automated quality assurance.
Energy Monitoring
Submetering, consumption analytics, ISO 50001 reporting. Track every kilowatt, identify every waste source.
Industrial partners & clients — with SFACTO Global
Case Studies
Delivered results, not promises.
Real projects from our industrial automation practice. Client identities withheld where requested.
Automotive Manufacturing
Real-Time OEE Dashboard
Confidential — Tier-1 Automotive Supplier, DACH
Challenge
Plant manager had no real-time production visibility. OEE was calculated manually in Excel, 24 hours after shift end. A recurring pneumatic fault on Line 3 had been causing intermittent stoppages for 18 months without root cause identification.
Solution
Deployed OPC UA collectors on 14 Siemens S7-300/400 PLCs, edge processing via Beckhoff CX series, and a live OEE dashboard with shift, machine, and fault-category drill-down. Alert system triggered within 90 seconds of anomaly detection.
Impact
23% reduction in unplanned downtime within the first quarter. Recurring pneumatic fault identified and resolved within week 2.
Water & Utilities
SCADA Retrofit — Water Treatment
Municipal operator — Germany (NDA)
Challenge
25-year-old proprietary SCADA system approaching end-of-life with no vendor support. Remote monitoring was impossible, requiring engineers on-call 24/7 for manual site checks. Regulatory reporting done by hand.
Solution
Phased replacement using Siemens S7-1500 PLCs and a modern SCADA layer with remote access, full historian, and alarm management. Parallel-run methodology ensured zero downtime during cutover across 3 treatment sites.
Impact
Remote monitoring live from day one. 70% reduction in emergency callouts. Regulatory reporting fully automated.
Process
How we work
Plant Audit
We map your current setup — PLCs, sensors, data flows, pain points. No assumptions, no guesswork.
Roadmap
Phased plan with realistic costs and clear ROI per phase. We tell you what's worth doing first.
Build & Commission
Greenfield or retrofit — we engineer, test, and commission. Full documentation, no black boxes.
Handover
Your team runs it. We're on call. No dependency on us forever.
Got a plant problem?
Tell us the chaos. We'll come back with a roadmap and realistic numbers — no pitch deck, no upsell.