AUTOMATION

Nowadays, one of the most progressive areas in the overall development of science and technology is the replacement of human operations in the processes of controlling the functioning of certain technical devices, i.e. the automation of such processes. This is primarily due to the fact that, due to the physiological and psychological characteristics of human operators, the efficiency of control processes cannot usually reach the possible optimal values.

At the same time, automatic control is becoming increasingly important, which means the implementation of certain control influences on a given object, necessary and sufficient for its purposeful functioning with a given accuracy without personal involvement of a person. The human role is limited to designing, setting up, launching the ACS, occasional monitoring of the correctness of operation, stopping the system, and other side functions not directly related to control operations.

Depending on the functions performed by automatic devices, three main types of automation systems can be distinguished:

• automatic control systems;
• automatic protection systems;
• automatic control systems (ACS).

The automatic control is designed to:

• alarm systems;
• automatic measurement and indication;
• data collection.

Automatic protection is used to prevent abnormal or emergency operating conditions. In the event of such emergency conditions, the automatic protection system can stop the controlled process or take it out of emergency mode.

Automatic control is designed to purposefully change various parameters of a production or technological process. A type of automatic control is automatic regulation.

This is the process of maintaining or purposefully changing a single parameter. An automatic device that performs this function is called a regulator.

The conditions of fire hazard, explosion hazard of the object and environmental aggressiveness, as well as requirements for speed, range of information and control signals transmission are decisive in the selection of automation equipment in terms of the energy of the signal carrier (electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, etc.) in the communication channel. Thus, for fire- and explosion-hazardous technological processes (installations), pneumatic automation means are used in most cases; with high requirements for speed and significant distances between sources and receivers of information signals, electrical and combined automation means are usually used.

When designing automation systems, it is necessary to include automation equipment with the accuracy class determined by the actual requirements of the automation object. It is well known that the higher the class of a measuring instrument, the more complex the design of the instrument, the higher its cost, and the more difficult its operation.

The choice of industrial instruments and automation equipment is preceded by determining the required composition and drawing up a functional diagram of the automation of a technological process (object), based on the adopted principle of regulation (control), functional tasks to be performed by the system, and design features of serial instruments.

After determining the composition of the functional automation scheme, individual elements (system components) are selected.

The purpose of automation systems is determined by the need to introduce continuous control and regulation of various process variables at technological facilities.

An automatic control system is a set of technical means for controlling a regulated parameter, in which computational and logical operations are performed using special technical devices: an automatic regulator, a programmable controller or a control computer.

Our experts will take care of choosing the right system for your request, based on many factors: type of room, purpose, area, equipment impact goals, budget, and much more.

We carry out a full range of work, from analysing the request, selecting the right system, designing and installing it, to the subsequent maintenance of the system.

We do all this to achieve the main result – comfortable living and working conditions for people regardless of external environmental factors.