Automation

The Automation Department of Control Express Finland

We sell, design and implement various industrial automation solutions and import B&R programmable logic controllers and logic components.

Most of our deliveries have been to manufacturing industries, including automation of roll wrapping systems and laundry automation. In addition, we have strong expertise in various applications in process engineering, including waterworks and district heating networks.

Automation projects

Automation projects play a central role in our operation. We deliver demanding projects on a turnkey basis.

We take care of:

• Design (circuit diagrams, cabling and connections)
• Programming
• Testing
• Start-up
• Documentation

In our project applications we also use devices and programs other than those that we import ourselves, depending on the requirements of the project at hand.

CEF Simplex

We have been developing our own control/data acquisition software using Visual Basic for situations where the existing software has proved inadequate for our customers’ needs.This has grown into a “toolbox” – a control software called CEF Simplex – that has already been employed in more than ten projects.

CEF Simplex comprises a separate communications server and a control program. The communications server is a ready software package and the control program is designed on a template with Visual Basic. The communications server communicates with a programmable logic controller and transmits signals to the control program over TCP. The TCP allows for a flexible system architecture, e.g. placing the control program and the communications server in different computers.