As the system integrator and advanced automation solution provider, Lean Automation is rendering services and makes recommendations without affiliation to a specific technology and supports all phases of your projects — from startup and commissioning to ongoing maintenance. Lean Automation is designing, configuring and commissioning the plant-wide process control system.

Process Control Engineering Services

We take the time to understand customers' needs and ensure that we deliver the best solution for your business. In all projects we ensure the end user is presented with a high-quality, cost-appropriate control system. An emphasis on robustness, reliability, risk reduction and self-sufficiency is fundamental to our philosophy.

Lean has sufficient resources, experience and expertise to deliver plant-wide control system projects of any size. This can be from a complete project management perspective (design, procurement, selection, construction, commissioning, training, and maintenance) or as a contractor for any of these individual components in the field of control.

  • Activities: design and documentation, procurement, implementation, commissioning, audits and reviews
  • Control systems: DCS, SCADA, PLC, safety systems, system security, user security, ergonomics, application programming, simulations, alarm strategies
  • Process control: regulatory control, sequence control, modelling and simulation, advanced process control
  • Technical training: loop training, process control, instrumentation, simulators, custom
  • Support: control systems, application, remote/on site, loop tuning, trouble shooting, and optimization.

Design, Control, And Optimize

Our Control services incorporate the techniques and experience to facilitate a turnkey, high quality control system implementation. We cover system selection and design, logic design, configuration, commissioning and support. Our experience means that we can provide an integrated, efficient, plant-wide system on any platform. Our aim is to make you as the one of the best in your industry with a system which minimizes downtime and increases productivity.

At lean we recognize that for reasons of safety, environmental impact, productivity or quality, it is critical that key operations within your plant are tightly controlled. With our advanced controls you can avoid errors that affect your bottom line, or may even lead to public or environmental catastrophe. Lean’s advanced control services provide efficiency improvements through the focused application of sound process control fundamentals and the implementation of appropriate, high-end control tools. These include advanced regulatory control, advanced logic control and loop tuning.

Control Systems

Lean Automation is an independent expert in most Control Systems with extensive experience in Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and SCADA systems. We also understand Safety Systems, System Security, User Security, Application Programming, Simulations and alarming strategies.

Distributed Control Systems
  • ABB - Industrial IT
  • Emerson - DeltaV
  • Honeywell
  • Siemens – PCS7
  • Foxboro I/A
  • Yokogawa – Centum VP, CS3000, Centum CS, uXL
Programmable Logic Controllers
  • Allen-Bradley
  • Modicon
  • GE Fanuc
  • Siemens
  • ABB
SCADA
  • GeoEye
  • Citect
  • WinCC
  • Wonderware Archestra
  • Ge iFIX
  • Iconics
Safety Instrumented System
  • Triconex
  • Safety Manager
  • HIMA
  • DeltaV SISTM
  • Prosafe-RS

Enterprise Asset Management is an integrated plant operation solution that enables companies to operate plants more smoothly by keeping equipment running at the lowest cost. Integrating different software with enterprise asset management software is a critical step that companies need to take in order to get a handle on expenses, and to be able to execute better management on an ongoing basis.

Lean Automation’s Enterprise Asset Management Integration solution enables communication between EAM/CMMS systems and provides a mechanism for Real time Condition Based Monitoring. We provide computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) and other maintenance management solutions as part of our Enterprise Integration offering, all to help increase your uptime and reduce your maintenance costs while decrease longevity of equipment. This system could help you to reduce your total cost of ownership. Our platform-independent approach ensures that we deliver the best solution for your operations, without bias for any particular technology.

Benefits

  • Shift from reactive to proactive maintenance through CBM.
  • Workload reduction on current workforce resulting in greater productivity, less turnover, cost savings and co-worker development.
  • Reduced need for regulatory inspection
  • Reduced Workforce: Eliminates the need for plant technicians to manually collect meter readings and then manually enter the results into the CMMS / EAM systems
  • Intelligent Inventory Management
  • Improved reliability would uncover additional capacity as redundant standby equipment could be put to use in production.
  • Implementation of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) strategies which involves On-Condition and Complete maintenance within Schedule, Locating failures and One Time Change in System.
  • Coherent Real-time Data collection
  • Comprehensive maintenance database creation, including significant Alarms & Events in their particular order and time.
  • Improved overall skill level and technical knowledge
  • Enables maintenance supervisor or manager to optimize planning with better visibility into actual equipment condition
  • Reduction in unplanned downtime by achieving greater asset reliability and availability

Features

Our EAMI solution is compliant to open industry standards including OPC DA, A&E, HDA, and UA and has the following technical functionalities

  • Complete Enterprise Asset Information
  • Real-Time Condition Based Monitoring
  • Work Order Generation through historian and Alarming
  • Analytics (EEMUA 191 Based Analysis Tools)

Without the proper maintenance and support, your systems can become unreliable — leading to unscheduled downtime, product waste and a decrease in profitability. To help you reduce these risks, Lean Automation provides a range of factory maintenance planning services and plant maintenance support as part of our sustaining services offering. We’ll work with you to develop a custom solution that meets your specific needs for stability, performance and functionality across an ever-increasing range of legacy, hosted and proprietary systems.

Today Manufacturers need to have a deep understanding of their business, of the Systems and packaged solutions in play, and agile processes, and of the industry best practices. Support requirements at this level are as much about increasing productivity as they are about maintaining/improving the quality of services.

Lean takes a comprehensive approach to provide maintenance process solutions from staffing support to design-for-ease maintenance solutions (or processes); with a focus on eliminating unplanned outages. We work with you to fully understand your maintenance requirements and develop a holistic proactive plan for supporting your systems. Our process entails detail design engineering, sub-system process segregation, commissioning, training plans, and preventive maintenance processes for ease of maintenance during outages, increased uptime, and lower cost. Our end goal is to ensure a cost effective maintainable and operable process or facility for operations to manage. Our diverse industry experience allows sharing of maintenance process best practices with all our customers.

Benefits

  • Quick remote and onsite response for minimal network interruption & repair time
  • Expert diagnostic & issue resolution by certified technicians and engineers
  • Develop preventative maintenance programs
  • Cost-effective service agreements for lower total cost of ownership
  • Access to the most current features and capabilities
  • Create technical training programs and documentation
  • Deliver maintenance management and equipment lifecycle solutions
  • Plan for outages and smooth commissioning

Advantages

With a dedicated Support & Maintenance department, Lean has significant and direct experience in the support and maintenance of complex applications, platforms, and solutions.

Based on our experience to be successful, a support program must:

  • Maintain a well-balanced team of talented and experienced engineers who are professional, easy to work with and strong communicators
  • Utilize a comprehensive set of tools covering all stages of application support and maintenance, configured and integrated with our clients' tools
  • Follow reliable processes, policies and procedures so that resources can be added smoothly, requests, incidents, and tasks can all be performed and tracked closely.

Lean Services

Throughout the entire application life-cycle we provide a range of services including:

  • Application Assessment and Audit (Architecture, Design, Performance)
  • Application Support: Incident Investigation, Troubleshooting, and Management
  • Application Maintenance: Problem Management and Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
  • Application Enhancement: Request for Change (RFC) Implementations, Functional Uplift
  • Application Performance Monitoring, Management, and Tuning
  • Release and Deployment Management integrated with Application Systems Management,
  • Preventive and Proactive Maintenance and Support
  • Application Transition and Consulting Services

Lean provides maintenance and support services based on best practices, standards and technical expertise.

Lean Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence solution translates manufacturing data from the plant-floor into actionable intelligence for decision makers at the enterprise and business level.

Our Manufacturing Intelligence suite of solutions enable users to overcome business challenges, resulting in increased profitability, streamlined business efficiency and a strengthened loyalty to customers and vendors.

Lean EMI allows you to collect manufacturing-related data from across your plant, transfer it to your business systems and use it to create reports, analyses and visual summaries. Manufacturing Intelligence strategies leverage a suite of reporting and analysis tools, interfaces and dashboards designed to deliver contextual, localized, role-based information to help you improve your process. When given new structure or context, these data allow users to easily find the information they need, regardless of its source. This real knowledge drives business results across the enterprise. And our Technologies will help you to make it happen.

Lean EMI performs five core functions: aggregation, contextualization, analysis, visualization and action. For this purpose, our EMI solutions correlate data from a variety of sources; data regarding quality, manufacturing, and inventory. So you can analyze it and make timely decisions. By delivering the right information to the right people at the right time, our solutions enable real-time decision making on the shop floor while supporting long-term continuous improvement initiatives.

For large manufacturing operations with multiple plants even in different locations, Lean EMI solution addresses needs from planning to production, quality assurance, maintenance, asset and inventory management.

Help to Manufacturer

  • Combining multiple sources of information in the same report allows you to discover trends across disjointed systems in real-time.
  • With full time automated operation, reports are delivered with the right information to the right person at the right time.
  • Shortens the implementation time for greater return on investment and lowers total cost of ownership for multiple industries and applications.
  • Enables more efficient interaction with data to quickly get to the root cause of problems.

Benefits

Overcome economic challenges
  • Reduce costs
  • Optimize production capabilities
Improve sustainability results
  • Conserve energy (Reduce Energy Consumption)
  • Minimize waste
  • Bolster best practices and regulatory compliance
Increase global competitiveness
  • Aggregate manufacturing information across all assets and resources
  • Reduce demand forecast errors
  • Assure customer commitments and satisfaction
Increase production agility
  • Shorten product development and launch cycles
  • Monitor production variants
  • Enhance overall product quality
  • Overcome asset constraints
  • Maximize resource utilization

With the real knowledge at your fingertips you can use the information to speed fault finding processes and to aid sound business decisions. Lean engineers will work in tandem with you to understand your requirements and present the information in a suitable, meaningful and comparative fashion so that trends are clear and discrepancies are obvious. A variety of formats can be used to present the data including graphs, contour plots, mimic diagrams and histograms, and the data can be presented on different machines, lines, shifts or products.

With Advanced Data Historians making knowledge and insight available to management personnel, most companies see real business benefits.

Lean offers expertise in the design and integration of the following Advanced Data Historians and Databases:

OSISoft PI Microsoft SQL
PlantWiki Oracle
Honeywell PHD AspenTech InfoPlus.21
ICONICS Hyper Historian Wonderware InSQL
ABB Knowledge Manager Citect Ampla