Controls & Automation Services
KENTZ CONTROLS, AUTOMATION & COMMISSIONING
About…
The Kentz Group’s Controls, Automation and Commissioning Group is a leading specialist in the area of 'grass root' plants, plant modernisation and upgrade, and has executed numerous complex and demanding projects within the oil & gas, refining, petrochemical, power & water, pulp & paper, milling and manufacturing industries.
Kentz provides a full range of technical and project management services from front-end engineering design through procurement, construction, integration, testing, commissioning and start-up support.
Some sample services
- Application and system engineering
- System configuration and programming
- Graphic design and development
- SILand HAZOP analysis
- Remote equipment buildings (RIBs, LERs)
- Inspection and testing (FATs and SATs)
- Loop checking
- Electrical drive analysis
- Plans and procedures
- Inspection and test plans
- Factory and site acceptance test
- Calibration and loop check procedures - Hot and cold cutover procedure
- Hot and cold cutovers
- Provision of electrical and instrument test equipment and test panels
- Staging of FATs and IFATs
- Material management and control
- In-house project control systems
- Drive technology applications
Expertise across a broad range of systems
- Distributed Control Systems, e.g. Yokogawa, Emerson, Honeywell, ABB, Invensys, Siemens
- Safety Systems, e.g. Triconex, ICS Triplex, ABB August, Yokogawa, Honeywell
- Programmable Logic Controllers, e.g. AB, Modicon, GE, Siemens
- Industry Standard Drives, e.g. ABB, Siemens, GE, Rockwell Automation
- Boiler Management Systems
- Generation Control Systems, e.g. Basler, Triconex
- Rotating Equipment Systems
- Tank Gauging Systems
- Royalty Metering Systems
- Motorised Valve Control Systems
- Alarm Management Systems
- Asset Management Systems
- Training Simulator Systems
- Power Distribution Management Systems
- Electrical Network Control and Monitoring Systems
- Load Shedding/Sharing Systems
- Data Collection/Bar Coding
- Time Synchronisation
- Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning
- Uninterrupted Power Supplies
- MPP (Motor Protection Package)
- Fire and Gas Detection
- Fire Suppression System
- Analyser Systems (including houses)
- Motor Control Centres (MCC)
Kentz typical scope
- Main Automation Contractor (MAC)
- Main Instrument Controls Contractor (MICC)
- Partner to Controls and Automation vendors with responsibility for:
- Project Management
- 3rd party systems interface
- Interfaces with EPC contractors
- 3rd party FATs and integrated FAT coordination - Acting for and on behalf of owners to manage integration contracts
- Members of PMCPMT teams with responsibility for
- Review and approval of engineering
- Witnessing FATs/IFATs - On-site contractor responsible for:
- Installation of equipment/systems/field devices
- Inspection and testing (SAT)
- Loop testing and functional testing
- Commissioning and start-up assistance
- Handover management
