Disaster Recovery
Minimise disruption and maximise productivity with Scantime’s expert disaster recovery services. We’ll get you back up and running and prevent costly downtime.
Automation
Overview
Safeguard your shop-floor
When PLC hardware becomes outdated, it can present a range of very real risks to your operations. Older systems are more likely to fail, and replacement parts can be hard to source. We provide disaster recovery services to minimise the disruption of process downtime and get your operations up and running again – fast.
Expert help
Our experienced automation specialists can diagnose and rectify equipment malfunctions, PLC hardware failures, and PLC program configuration errors.
Future-proof your business
Our team can update your operational processes, increase your efficiency, and strengthen your systems and infrastructure against future challenges.
Safeguard your operations
We can specify the equipment you need and to design and develop bespoke programs that guarantee the safe and effective management of your operations.
Ongoing support
We’ll supply you with the software documentation and comprehensive training your engineers need to manage your system safely and with confidence.
Case Study
How Scantime increased this company’s production by 25%
Our troubleshooting abilities were called upon to analyse a production process for a Durham-based company. The process was suffering from problems in producing a particularly difficult product, which in-turn increased downtime making the line extremely inefficient.
Upon studying the operation and production equipment over several days, we turned our focus to the Allen-Bradley ControlLogix PLC and the PLC program which was responsible for the control of all this equipment.
After several days of program analysis, we detected a small bug in the program operation that occurred for only a few milliseconds. Could this be the cause the problems?
After further program analysis, our engineers traced the problem and diagnosed it as a PLC program design error, which has probably been lurking in the background since its original design and installation, only making itself apparent when this product type was introduced.
Over the following week, our engineers introduced modifications to the existing PLC program and solutions were implemented to help fix this problem. Upon download, the results were instantaneous, and the line equipment began to work the way it was intended.
The result?
No more stoppages and the line production increased by a dramatic 25%.
25%
Production Increase
Zero
Production Line Stopages
“You would never believe what a difference this has made to production.”
Lisa Thompson
Engineering Manager
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