Control System Engineering

Each project provides unique challenges to control system design. This includes designing and defining the control strategies to ensure that the plant is intuitive from operational and process design perspective. Our Controls Engineering Team will design a system that is usable and integrates the components that best meet operational challenges. A properly designed system provides unique opportunities which can facilitate dramatic cost savings, improved safety & reliability, as well as improved integration with other systems in your organization.

Tetranex Solutions is a vendor neutral solution to the engineering & design of your control system. The technology used in control systems is constantly evolving. New features and designs are frequently introduced and we continually evaluates these revisions to determine those that provide opportunity and those that are not yet ready for ‘main stream’. These factors and others play key roles in designing and implementing any process control system.

Services offered by our Controls Engineering group include:

• Process Control Definition
• Participation in P&ID Development and Review
• Participation in HAZOP studies
• Control System Functional Design Specifications
• Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Determination
• Safety Requirement Specifications
• Safety Instrumented System (SIS) Design
• Shutdown Key (Cause & Effect Diagram) Development
• Controls Components Selection & Evaluation
• Control System Specifications & Standards Development
• Communications Architecture Design
• Control Philosophy/Narrative Development
• Electronic Flow Measurement (EFM) Specification, Design and Validation
• Measurement, Accounting, and Reporting Plan (MARP)
• Alarm Management and Rationalization Strategies
• Brownfield Process Control Audits and As-Building