Controls and Automation Services

Kentz's Controls and Automation Solutions group is focused on delivering first-class services in industrial control systems, plant automation and information technology that require application knowledge and technical expertise for design, implementation, integration, installation and support. In doing so, the controls and automation solutions group emphatically adopts and adheres to our health, safety, environment and quality standards.

Productivity today has become a global race with the drive for real-time operations and services reshaping business and industry. The fundamental purpose of automation is to improve productivity through innovation and technology and it is important to have an automation solution provider such as the Kentz Group, which is committed to continuous innovation and evolving technology to provide quality controls and automation solutions. Our success is achieved by providing professional services of the highest quality, on schedule and within budget, and by recognising the need to maintain strict compliance with our clients' requirements.

Controls and automation is a revolutionary system approach to comprehensive business management that allows management of process knowledge through a combination of advanced technologies.

We provide a wide range of control and automation services across all business sectors. Our controls and automation team is a leading specialist in the area of 'grass root' plants, plant modernisation and upgrade. We have executed many complex and demanding projects for oil and gas, refining, petrochemical, power and water, pulp and paper, metals, mining, cement, milling and manufacturing industries.

We provide in-house complex software solutions for the control of inter alia rolling mills, process lines, furnaces, kilns in the metals industry.

Services

We are an established authority in the design, engineering, assembly, integration and testing of process control systems, milling applications and working with leading control systems vendors worldwide. Services include:

  • Studies
  • Conceptual engineering (FEED)
  • Design and assembly
  • Engineering, procurement and construction
  • Integration, inspection and testing
  • Commissioning and start-up support
  • Maintenance and upgrade
  • Project management
Core In-House Expertise (core competencies):
  • Software development including, Distributed Control System (DCS), Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), shutdown systems
  • Coordinated variable speed drive software solutions
  • Network and fieldbus solutions
  • Telemetry
  • Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) interfaces
  • Accredited training centre for courses in PLC software, drives, SCADA and networks