Here to help & Still open for business

Following the most recent changes announced in January 2021 by the Scottish Government and the new Tier-4 Lockdown instructions we wanted to update you on what this means in terms of our support and services offered to all our clients. 

After carefully reviewing our own safety operating procedures we confirm that; 

  • Being a critical supplier of support for many major industries, we are still available and providing 24 x7 x 365 help to all our clients on support contracts 
  • If you do not have a support contract, then contact us and we will work with you to put in place a support arrangement to at least help you through this latest lockdown challenge 
  • Our engineers are also still available and working on new system projects 
  • We can also help provide you with remote access support and ensure that the current situation does not expose you to increased or new Cyber threats and breakdowns. 
  • In keeping with guidance, our company and team are strictly adhering to all best practice guidelines and importantly, we have put additional measures for staff and client safety during this challenging period. The safety of our staff and those we work with is of the utmost importance to us. 

Client support – Elite support many clients across the UK in the Energy, Food & Beveridge, Manufacturing, Chemical and Oil and Gas sectors.  Many of these are classified as critical infrastructure and consequently these sectors, like Elite Engineering & Support are still working and here to help. 

If you would like help in exploring or readying your operation for remote working, securing operations whilst remote working or, need a Cyber risk assessment please contact us: 

 +44(01506 597900 email info@elitecontrols.co.uk

We look forward to your continued support 

Thank you 

New Vacancy – Support Engineer

An exciting Support Engineer Opportunity at Elite Controls!

We are a leading provider of automation, control, and associated Systems Integration services. Our award-winning team, work across a broad range of UK and International manufacturing and process industries designing, building, and supporting control systems for some of the world’s best-known brands.

We are looking for a new Support Engineer who has a proven approach to fault finding and quality minded customer service, familiar with a wide variety of PLC and SCADA/HMI platforms (Rockwell, Siemens, iFix, Wonderware).

For more information, visit https://www.elitecontrols.com/contact-us/current-vacancies/

#Support #Engineer #Vacancy #IT #OT #PLC #SCADA #CyberSecurity #Cyber #Security

Elite Team Briefing

Elite Team Briefing

Friday saw another Elite online team briefing making sure that everyone remains safe in our COVID times. A good update and feedback session was held with respect to our 100 day plan and, Bill Grant our CEO also shared the plan for the next 100 days.

Great to also see our “Baku Boys” join us live from the middle of the Caspian Sea! – The wonders of modern technology in action!

Thank you everyone for all your help and support and, most importantly stay safe!

CENSIS Cyber IoT Cyber Security Programme

CENSIS Cyber IoT Cyber Security Programme

Elite were invited to present at the CENSIS Cyber IoT Cyber Security Programme.

Sharing the “stage” with Siemens Industrial Security and Safety Services Manager Paul Hingley, Elite’s own Colin Crosbie provided a pragmatic, insightful and highly informed overview of Cyber threats and best practice design considerations facing all of our major manufacturers today.

In these challenging times, keeping personally safe is very much to the fore in all our minds however, with ever increasing needs around remote working and an increased use of new technologies, making sure that our critical industrial base is also equally safe from Cyber threats has never been more pressing.

CENSIS is the National Innovation Centre for sensing, imaging and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies; they are tasked with raising industry awareness of this critical and ever more important subject as part of the IoT Cyber Challenge Program.

If you have any concerns or worries about your Cyber Security and Resilience please get in touch for a confidential discussion emailing cyber@elitecontrols.co.uk

https://new.siemens.com/global/en/products/services/digital-enterprise-services/industrial-security-services.html

#cybersecurity #iot #internetofthings #innovation #cyber

Obsolescence Management – SCADA

Obsolescence Management – SCADA

A well known beverage manufacturer based in Glasgow, had ongoing obsolescence issues with their existing, site-wide, (20+i-Fix nodes) SCADA system. Due to the fragmented, ageing system on site a decision was made to upgrade the full SCADA system to make it more modern, resilient, and secure.

Elite’s engineers started working on the 9-month long project by merging and optimizing the existing databases into a single database. Elite removed numerous duplicate data tags and modernised some of the technologies that were previously used. Various differing versions of the site-wide SCADA node’s were upgraded to the latest revision.

In addition, a total of 9 servers were merged into a single (cloud based) unit whilst the existing servers were all virtualised.

As a result, our client can now merge & expand their plant system with ease and less potential downtime implications. Routine maintenance is easier with regular backups now performed automatically with less strain on the plant resources. The system is significantly more secure and much more flexible for remote access from an administering perspective.

Elite is once again proud to support local business, providing modern and effective engineering solutions to our customers!