Process Control and SCADA

With the advent of IIoT visualising process data in a modern manufacturing environment can happen in the control room, the factory floor or even the home. Impulse offer a range of large format displays, panel computers, ruggedised tablet and rack computers to help process and display data required for both the IT and OT layer. We partner with world leading vendors offering hardware and software solutions for cloud & IIoT projects integrating MQTT and AWS and Azure clients.

Collecting data from multiple sources using our hardware would be a lot more difficult without value added software which we can also provide. Moxa's Active OPC UA and Advantech's Web Access are great examples of software designed to make the life of a control engineer easier. They both allow seamless integration of factory floor data collection hardware into your existing SCADA platform.

The place where humans and machines combine is critical for both machine builders and end users. Whilst Industry 4.0 pushes processes to become more automated there is still a real need for the operator to view and control critical variables on the factory floor. Impulse offer a wide range of HMIs from traditional 4:3 aspect and small form factor units through to more modern 16:9 widescreen capacitive touch variants offering consumer style pinch and swipe control of the GUI.

Serial, Modbus, Ethernet/IP, DNP3, Profinet, Profibus, CAN, EtherCAT, TwinCAT, SERCOS, Ethernet Powerlink, CC-Link. Above are just some of the protocols our data acquisition, I/O, gateway and computing products support. If you want to learn more about the machine and device connectivity solutions we offer please get in touch.

The need to measure and control the operation of machinery or process equipment is as old as the Industrial Revolution. Plant instrumentation has now become the nerves and brain of the modern manufacturing plant. Instrumentation allows the use of processes which would be difficult or impossible to operate without automation. Analog measurements take many forms and obtaining, maintaining and improving the quality of these measurements is the goal of proper signal conditioning.