Some of our skills

- No production downtime even for complete revamping of the automation software of machines, plants and systems.
- Software based on arrays of polymorphic objects that allows you to manage a practically unlimited number of intelligent objects always with the same software regardless of the quantity of objects managed. This allows incredible flexibility, upgrades in very short times, simple maintenance with even the possibility of temporarily bypassing non-functioning parts of the system.
A few intelligent functions manage all the objects and their interactions and dependencies.
The designer does not have to worry about start-up, stop, precedence sequences, etc.
Each object knows who to receive consent from and who to give it to and so all the sequences and dependencies are automatically generated.

- Possibility of increasing the number of managed objects in an almost unlimited way without increasing the complexity of the software and often without adding any line of code. An automation system manages some types of objects such as burners, ovens, conveyor belts, mills, hoppers, motors, temperature adjustments, flow rates, pressures, speeds, etc.
With the same software, we can manage an oven with 2 burners or an oven with 90 burners, even of different types and associated with different settings, without having to write code (also applied on a Marcegaglia chrome-plating oven with 90 burners). Even an operator with no basic knowledge can change the number of burners, the type, the connections, the setting functions, etc. without any programming knowledge but simply by acting on the HMI.
The same thing happens for the management of a crushing plant, with which, without writing code, you can go from 2 belts to 400 belts, also adding mills, hoppers, silos, etc. More than 90% of the code is identical even for very different applications such as ovens and crushing plants.

This solution has been used on many plants, for example in the plant for the construction of the GERDP, one of the largest dams in the world on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia with WeBuild. The plant extended over an area of several square kilometers with about 400 belts, a thousand motors, mills, etc.
During construction the dam grew to a height of about 150 meters so the entire layout of the belts and their interactions must be continually modified.
Having flexible software means making many of these changes without having to intervene on the code.

- Our HMIs can work in parallel even with more than 16 different HMIs on the same computer, all displayed and operational simultaneously. This is particularly useful for maintenance operators who can control numerous machines with a single monitor without having to use remote connections and without interfering with the operators in charge.

- Everything is developed in standard environments such as Step7 and WinCC by Siemens or similar.
- We can also create specific applications to meet particular needs. Applications created with the languages best suited to your needs such as C#, SCL, LabVIEW, Java, Java Script, VB, VBA, Ladder, etc. For Windows, and other operating systems as well as for interaction with the most common databases such as SQL and similar.
An example of a specific application in LabVIEW is the system for testing the high-speed train Pendolino, from which the Freccia Rossa is derived as a simplification.

AuCo Solutions: process automation software for PLC HMI SCADA SIEMENS WINDOWS

Software automation need a big experience and the professionality to develop well-structured software.
The software is the key of a performant industrial control and process automation.
In this page you can find the links at some of our customers.

PLC Programmable Logic Controller software

Many PLC developer write the software like draw electric schema. This is a good solution only for very simple situation. Complex system need a object-oriented development.

Without an object oriented strategy the software become day by day more complex. Before to finalize a complex system, the developer loss the control of the software and the loss the capacity to remember and understand the behavior of the software.

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Object oriented programming in PLC controller, computer, SCADA and HMI

AuCo Solutions process automation use array of objects and funztions. The elements of the array are configurable one by one or selecting a group of objects. Each object can have different characteristics and behavior.

Each kind of object have a special control function to interact with the object and control the behavior of the object.

Object oriented programming allow us to create an application with less of 10 functions, and hundred and hundred objects. For example, we have realized the software automation control of an industrial oven with 90 burners (Marcegaglia, Italy). Exist only one function that control the burner and there are many kind of burner.

Auco Solutions process automation software use arrays of objects and array of functions. Each element of the array can have his structure and interact with a different kind of object.

The structure of the software is so flexible that many functions can be the same in different application, like oven, crashing plant, logistic, etc.

The same object-oriented programming structure is used in PLC controller application, HMI, SCADA and PC software making everything simple, transportable. The forntend is so flexible that also the user can be allowed to configure and modify the structre of the system.

The developping of HMI and SCADA is very much more simple using array of objects. Normally is enought create one popup for each kind of object, in place wirte all istance of the objects really present.

Also using standard HMI and SCADA like WinCC, Cimplicity, InTouch, this strategy make more fast the data exchange bitween SCADA and PLC, using very much less number of data to exchange. This allow also to safe very much money on software license.

Industrial control and process automation: languages, SCADA and HMI

We have start many years ago with Assembler, Forth etc. Now Auco Solutions use all kind of PLC language, like Ladder, SCL, Visual Studio with C# etc., LabVIEW, Java, Java Script and more.

The human machine interface HMI and SCADA software solutions are developed from AuCo Solutions using Visual Studio, Java, HTML, Node, and graphic solutions. We create application also with standard tools like Siemens WinCC, Wonderware InTouch, GE General Electric Cimplicity and many others.

Industry sectors

Auco Solution experience in industrial control and process automation technology is about many fields: petrol chemical, process automation solutions, logistic, chemical, food and beverage, plastic and rubber industry, iron industry, aluminum industry, transport, automotive, electronic test, mechanical test, quality control, assembling machines, robotic automation.

Team strategy

In every situation it is very important create a strong motived team.

The team strategy must involve each worker in the work goal. The common work must become very strong in the mind and hearth of everybody. React the goal must be a big satisfaction for everybody, making each one proud to have given an important contribution to achieving the common goal.

The leader must have the capacity to understand the skill of all workers to use each one at the best in the group and must understand what need each worker.

When the work is strong and need energy and commitment is essential to understand the necessity of everybody. Some time is more important a small thing like one break for call family in the right moment, that more money or other incentives.

This exchange of energy between leaders and workers make strong the team and is a very good team strategy.

Sometime the leader meets the worker on place and have a very short time to understand the group and create the team energy.

But the team strategy is the key of a work success, and the ability to create a strong team feeling make possible everything.