by ECS Administration | Dec 18, 2020 | Announcement, Blog Post, Press Releases
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
by ECS Administration | Dec 9, 2020 | Announcement, Blog Post, Press Releases
During the holiday season, our thoughts turn gratefully to all of our customers, suppliers and all of those who have made our success possible. It is in this spirit that we say thank you and send best wishes for the Christmas holidays and New Year!
All the best from the team at Elite Controls!
by ECS Administration | Nov 11, 2020 | Announcement, Blog Post, Press Releases
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!
by ECS Administration | Nov 5, 2020 | Announcement, Blog Post, Feature Articles, Press Releases
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
by ECS Administration | Oct 28, 2020 | Blog Post, Commissioning, Distilling & Bottling, Engineering Support, Press Releases
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!
by ECS Administration | Oct 14, 2020 | Blog Post, Commissioning, Distilling & Bottling, Whisky
Our customer, a main manufacturer of whisky and spirits, required to optimize and simplify the cereal intake process in their distillery. The project included the removal and replacement of obsolete equipment and the optimization of the control system.
The scope of the project included replacement of an old MCC and the design and installation of Siemens S7 based process control system. In addition, the new S7 system required integration with the existing ABB DCS. Following implementation and testing, site installation of MCC and commissioning took place. Solution developed by Elite has additionally incorporated a client/server SCADA based network and a HMI for Process Visualization, Management, Maintenance, Diagnostics and Standard features for alarming, trending and user configuration.
The new system employed has been optimized simplified compared to the previous iteration. The new process control equipment should be more efficient and reliable. Operation and maintenance personnel have improved monitoring and diagnostic capability available in runtime; this in turn should help reduce plant downtime.
Expanding on the knowledge and expertise gained by Elite, we are once again proud to offer a solution to one of our key clients and build upon our relationship with our partners.
by ECS Administration | Oct 8, 2020 | Blog Post, Charity, Feature Articles
Congratulations team Elite for participating so enthusiastically in the Cycle September 2020 challenge!
Under the careful guidance of our Captain 🙂 supported by his very able First Lieutenant JC, our team smashed our 1,000 mile month target clocking up a total of 1114 miles during September.
More than 50% of the team took part in the challenge and we collectively contributed and helped save more than 1200lbs of carbon CO2 emissions.
In terms of the final places in our company size categories; Elite finished #1 In West Lothian and, #9 in the UK. Worldwide we finished #4 for Manufacturing and Engineering companies. An amazing achievement.
Finally, a massive thank you too for the huge encouragement received from all our colleagues in Elite House – it really helped especially, when the sun didn’t come out!
Keep up the good habits everyone and thank you once again for all your help & support!
Captain Benji Kirkpatrick, Systems Engineer Elite Control Systems Ltd
