Industrial Automation Division

Control.
Monitor.
Decide.

Engineering control, monitoring, and data systems for manufacturing — bridging shop floor and management in real time.

23%
Avg. downtime reduction
2–4 wks
Time to first live dashboard
12 mo
Typical ROI payback period

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

SFACTO Global
SiemensSiemens
Beckhoff
Rockwell
ABBABB
KUKA
Tata
MazdaMazda
Geely
NIONIO
BYDBYD
SAIC
SFACTO Global
SiemensSiemens
Beckhoff
Rockwell
ABBABB
KUKA
Tata
MazdaMazda
Geely
NIONIO
BYDBYD
SAIC
SFACTO Global
SiemensSiemens
Beckhoff
Rockwell
ABBABB
KUKA
Tata
MazdaMazda
Geely
NIONIO
BYDBYD
SAIC

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

23% less downtime

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.

Siemens TIA PortalOPC UABeckhoffMQTTReal-Time Dashboard
10 weeks

Water & Utilities

SCADA Retrofit — Water Treatment

Municipal operator — Germany (NDA)

70% fewer callouts

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.

Siemens TIA PortalS7-1500SCADAHistorianRemote Monitoring
22 weeks

Process

How we work

01

Plant Audit

We map your current setup — PLCs, sensors, data flows, pain points. No assumptions, no guesswork.

02

Roadmap

Phased plan with realistic costs and clear ROI per phase. We tell you what's worth doing first.

03

Build & Commission

Greenfield or retrofit — we engineer, test, and commission. Full documentation, no black boxes.

04

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.