Automation and controls are at the heart of Systemex Automation's business. We have the experience of each of the main PLC and DCS systems providers in the market. By adding tailored-made solutions to meet your manufacturing and industrial process needs, we maximize the use of your existing infrastructure. Our expertise covers a wide range of industries including goods and components manufacturing, chemical and petrochemical, life sciences, pulp and paper, and mines and metals, etc.

Your manufacturing processes and systems generate an immeasurable amount of information that could help you better control your environment. This information comes from various systems such as programmable logic controllers (PLC), instruments, operator interfaces, and other PC-based local systems or individual controllers. The correlation between these data is often not centralized and requires manual manipulation before it can provide a snapshot of your business, which is often not synchronized with reality. What your business needs is not information overload, but rather, the right information so that you can make the right decisions.

Systemex Automation can help you to identify relevant information across the various departments within your company, and then to gather and integrate it in real time within your information systems so that you can identify the causes of operational problems or quality concerns. For example, we can acquire relevant information that will give your OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) level at any time or gather production information and make it available for your manufacturing systems (ERP or MES).

Your manufacturing processes are often unique and there is no specially designed monitoring solution, particularly if those processes involve a significant human component. Systemex Automation can analyze your processes and suggest ways to streamline them to manage the information required and generated throughout the entire workflow of your products in the plant. Whether it's to validate operations, guide or inform the operators, monitor the parts on the plant floor or record manufacturing or quality data at the various stages of manufacturing, the success of the systems we build depends on the combination of people, processes and technology.

For some projects, it is advantageous to include a preliminary engineering phase in order to clearly determine the project scope and feasibility; that means defining what will be included in the project goals, what will be excluded, and whether the project should be launched at all. This way, for a fraction of the project’s overall cost, you have a complete document that describes the project, which can be used to obtain the budgets required to carry out the project, and which helps you to accurately assess the risk related to conducting a project. As such, the project can be redefined, postponed to a later date, or cancelled if the owner is not satisfied with the findings of the preliminary engineering, thereby avoiding needless expenses.

Systemex Automation engineers can produce the following documents as part of the preliminary engineering phase:

• An accurate definition of the project scope

• The choice of technologies to be used on the project

• A definition of the design standards that must be met

• Development of the basic engineering documents required to assess costs

• An estimation of the project costs

• A calculation of the return on investment

• Production of the detailed project schedule

Detailed engineering includes the production of all documents required for the installation, calibration, and start-up of the controls equipment, as well as staff training.

Systemex Automation engineers and technicians take on the responsibility of producing the deliverables while helping you stay in line with the scope and budget of your project.

Electrical, mechanical, and instrumentation systems are critical to the continuity of your everyday operations. Systemex Automation provides engineering, design, and troubleshooting services for your systems to ensure the quality and proper integration of the system components, motor control circuits, supplies, PLCs, and mechanized systems. We are on the lookout for new technologies to ensure that you apply contemporary solutions that will have a long shelf life.

Our mechatronics experts can design complete production equipment based on your needs or on the component to be produced by bringing together the disciplines of mechanical design, kinetics, and electronic controls.

The programming and configuration of the equipment bring the detailed engineering developed in the early phases of a project to life. Systemex Automation engineers and technicians have extensive experience with the most recent PLC and DCS equipment. They apply their knowledge using the latest engineering and programming tools to convert logical diagrams into PLC code, to generate standard code or to write customized applications, as well as to use the standard function blocks offered by systems manufacturers. With the functionality available in modern controllers even the most advanced control strategies can be implemented.

Project management is one of the most important factors in the success of a project and Systemex Automation complies with the recognized principles in this field. We promote the use of project management milestones: Definition, Design, Development, Deployment, Direction and Documentation. Our approach, based on the WBS (Work Breakdown Structure), ensures monitoring that focuses on all of the levels while the project is being conducted, whether it is a small-scale or a large-scale project, and eliminates several problems that interfere with achieving the schedule objectives.

Systemex Automation provides the integrated design of automated systems. Our expertise covers the full spectrum of disciplines required to develop the equipment necessary for your application, including the mechanical, electrical and instrumentation designs, PLC, DCS, HMI and movement control systems programming, as well as SCADA and MES applications.

Our spectrum of services allows us to implement our engineering solutions, including the technical services that support the power, mechanics, and installation and calibration of the instruments. Our engineering team also supports the pre-operational checks and the start-up in addition to providing post start-up support. We can also draw on a group of resources from our affiliated companies in the industry.

Our spectrum of services allows us to implement our engineering solutions, including the technical services that support the power, mechanics, and installation and calibration of the instruments. Our engineering team also supports the pre-operational checks and the start-up in addition to providing post start-up support. We can also draw on a group of resources from our affiliated companies in the industry.

With several years of experience in industrial automation, Systemex Automation provides consulting services to solve your expansion problems and the associated headaches. Our consulting teams can help you identify and eliminate the operational restrictions that impact your profitability such as inefficiencies; obsolete, under-utilized, or unsuitable technologies; capacity bottlenecks; and manufacturing, planning and resource levelling problems, as well as a lack of strategic vision. With the help of Systemex Automation, you can convert your problems into benefits for your company.

The safety of the production machines and equipment is a subject that no one can avoid because the laws in effect force the industrial sector to ensure the adequate safety of its workers.

Systemex Automation offers our clients two components of this practice intended for the engineers, i.e., risk analysis and the development of risk reduction measures based on both the laws in effect and the procedures proposed by the IRSST and the CSST.

We offer tested solutions tailored to the specific situations of each piece of equipment while taking care not hinder productivity.

Systemex Automation’s activities are supported by a solid group of sister companies that offer complementary services, such as:

• Electrical construction

• Instrumentation and calibration

• Industrial plumbing

• Maintenance engineering

• Outsourcing of specialized labour

• Industrial engineering and lean manufacturing

• Telecommunication networks

• Thermal energy storage solutions

This group allows us to offer a unique one-stop solution that covers a vast array of services in the context of your projects.