COMPANY PROFILE

Inspec delivers real world solutions for the manufacturing, commercial, utility and petrochemical  industries delivering significant business benefits now and into the future.

Inspec Solutions supply PLC, SCADA, DCS, Safety and MIS Systems to blue chip multinationals, UK wide businesses as well as small manufacturers all over the UK & Europe including:

BP Oil (UK), BP Oil (Iberia), Total (UK), Outokumpu, Corus, Nestle (UK), UK Coal, VAI,
Alpha Steels, Chevron Texaco, Network Rail, Bell Securities and Transocean-SedcoForex

Inspec Solutions also develop large bespoke web enabled database applications for any requirement. We build Training, HR, Payroll, Time recording, Contract Management and Recruitment applications amongst others, as well as our online products which form the Digital Framework.

For more information about The Digital Framework click the link below. (opens in a new window)

www.digitalframework.co.uk

Experience

Inspec Solutions Engineers have many years of experience in providing Control and Safety Systems into many different industries utilising a variety of industry standard hardware and software platforms.

A summary of our extensive range of experience includes:

          Safety Instrumented Systems

Safety System Logic Solvers

Alarm Management

System Upgrades and Replacements

PLC Systems

SCADA & Distributed Control Systems

Plant Level Information

Consultancy for new projects or system expansions, feasibility studies or cost
assessments

Conception, design, implementation and commissioning of PLC, SCADA, DCS,
Safety and automation schemes

Motor Control Centre design and Supply

Instrumentation specification and Supply

Cabling design

Plant level systems information gathering, for on site (LAN) or off site (internet)
visualisation and reporting for manufacturing plants

Management information systems

Safety Systems

Inspec Solutions Engineers have over 20 years experience in the supply of Safety Systems and extensive experience of supplying systems incorporating both Programmable and Solid State equipment as the Logic Solver.
As a general principle Inspec engineer all Safety Systems in accordance with the latest International guideline IEC 61511 (the Process Industry specific version of IEC 61508) and IEC 62061 (the Machine Safety specific version of IEC 61508).
The qualitative justification of compliance is provided within the use of our FSM Procedures which are  applied to all Safety System work. These procedures have been developed by Inspec in conjunction with an independent Functional Safety Consultant and apply to all Safety Systems up to SIL 3.
As part of our FSM we utilize personnel of the appropriate level of competency &
independence for all appropriate stages of the project lifecycle. In particular we have
personnel with the qualifications & experience to provide in house verification & audit
functions required by the guide lines including the following specific qualifications:

TUV (Rheinland) - Functional Safety Engineer

Our Engineers have designed Safety Instrumented Systems based on many different Programmable & non Programmable Logic Solvers including:

Hima
Triconix
Rockwell GuardLogix
PAC8000 SafetyNet
Crowcon
Detronics
Rotork
Relay Logic
Tyco/Wormald
Safety Relays (i.e.Pilz)
Phoenix PSR TriSafe
Pre IEC 61508 dual redundant PLC configurations based on PES guidelines (i.e.
GEM 80 PLC)

System Upgrades & Replacements

Inspec specialise in the upgrade and replacement of Control & Safety Systems. We
understand the need to minimise downtime of operation critical systems. We can call on many years of experience in both the design of effective replacements & upgrades and planning of changeovers often incorporating extensive pre-works to minimise shutdown activities.

Alarm Management

Inspec’s approach when designing control systems is to apply industry best practice as
captured in EEMUA Publication 191 ('Alarm Systems '" A Guide to Design, Management and Procurement').
Inspec can also provide Alarm Rationalisation of existing systems and our approach in this instance is to agree a strategy at the outset of the project. The strategy is likely to focus on worst offending alarms and areas or units of plant first before working down the levels of alarm frequency. The final rationalised system should have minimal critical alarms and only those that require operator intervention. All others should be either lower priority alarms or events only PLC, SCADA and DCS Systems

We have extensive experience on most industry standard PLC’s both current and legacy products, including all the market leading manufactures and we have many years experience working with most of the Open SCADA platforms:

SCADA

Rockwell RSView 32
Rockwell Factory Talk SE and ME
Rockwell Process Logix
Invensyst/Wonderware In Touch
GE iFix
Siemens WinCC PLC
Rockwell/Allen Bradley
Siemens
Converteam/GEC Gem 80
Schneider Modicon
GE
Texas
Square D
Opto 22
National Instruments Compact RIO/LabView
Mitsibushi

Consultancy

We can provide Consultancy Services offering cost-effective professional assistance in all areas of the Control and Safety System lifecycle. We specialise in the following professional and technical services.

Alarm Management
Communication Technology
Feasibility Studies
Functional Safety Audit and Assessment
Functional Specifications
Hardware, Software and System Solution Design
Hazard Identification
Reliability and Integrity Analysis
Risk Assessment
Site Surveys
Obsolescence studies
Software Simulation
Training

Plant Level Information and Information Technology

 

We have extensive experience of providing bespoke Web Based Plant Reporting systems to provide management and operations with monitoring & reporting information. Standard Microsoft Visual Basic/SQL database tools are used to develop these applications to ensure our clients are provided with an open system and not tied into a single vendor Inspec Solutions can offer a wide range of services in the field of Information Technology, a brief summary of which are detailed below:

database systems
bespoke software applications
database driven dynamic web sites
e-commerce systems
corporate web sites
intranet and extranet applications
network and computer system implementation
training courses

Motor Control Centres

Inspec can offer the full range of MV & LV switchgear and drive systems, either as part of a
Control scheme or as a separate contract. We have supplied many switchboard and drive
systems from small single starters to large suites with over 50 starters and variable speed
drives.

Support

Inspec Solutions can offer a wide range of support facilities from Ad-Hoc call outs to formal service level agreements with a 24/7 call out arrangement.