by ECS Administration | Feb 10, 2021 | Announcement, Blog Post, Press Releases
Elite Controls are happy to announce the completion of several maintenance activities for a large oil and gas conglomerate on an oilfield platform located in the Caspian Sea.
The platform is approximately 120km east of the Azerbaijan capital Baku, and has been in operation since 1997, requiring routine maintenance in its outage periods.
The maintenance work involved replacing & testing faulty high-integrity control modules on the platform for the fire and gas safety system. In addition, a survey of the system’s power supplies, processors and Ethernet network were also carried out. These investigations will allow Elite to provide recommendations for further maintenance and modifications to be carried out in a larger scale platform outage planned for 2021.
We’re glad to offer our continued assistance to our clients internationally, even more so in those troubled times!
by ECS Administration | Jan 13, 2021 | Announcement, Blog Post, Press Releases
Elite Control Systems in Livingston are delighted to announce that Robert Leyden has joined the Team as our new Key Accounts Manager.
With nearly 35 years experience in Engineering Sales, Account Management and Business Development, Robert’s previous employment includes several major global companies within his portfolio.
Speaking of his appointment; Bill Grant, Elite’s CEO said “2021 already looks like it will be an incredibly exciting time for us at Elite with many new projects starting. We are very lucky to secure someone of Robert’s caliber and he brings a wealth of experience and expertise to our growing team. All the team are really looking forward to working with Robert – onwards and upwards!
Welcome to the team, Robert!
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!
