Case studies

Real lines, real results

Recent projects with the client names withheld — what the plant needed, how it was engineered, and what changed. Client details available on request.

Food manufacturing South Australia 4 min read

Palletising line upgrade — 13 robot cells, zero lost shifts

An ageing packing area consolidated onto a modern fail-safe Siemens control system, new and existing robots brought onto one safety system, and the whole fleet upgraded cell by cell around live production.

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Food manufacturing South Australia 3 min read

Chiller & boiler line upgrade — retrofitted without stopping production

Boiler hot-water, chiller cooling-water and production clean-water systems brought onto a modern Siemens controller with stable automatic control and full process visibility — without a single production stop.

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Water utilities Australia 4 min read

Recycled-water scheme — one control standard across every site

A multi-site recycled-water scheme brought onto one standard Siemens control and SCADA platform: variable-speed pumps with automatic duty rotation, PID level and pressure control, chlorine dosing and HV monitoring — every site built the same way, run from one control room.

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Manufacturing Australia 3 min read

A modern web API, read straight into WinCC Unified

Many of today’s smart field devices speak a modern web (REST/JSON) language. We proved — live, on real hardware — that this data can be brought into Siemens WinCC Unified: always-on in the background, secure, and ready for an ERP or MES to read like any other process value.

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Manufacturing Australia 4 min read

One network — 15 machines, one tidy, secured control room

A control room of fifteen stand-alone machines — each with its own PC, its own little network and its own printer — consolidated onto one VLAN-segmented network with virtualised SCADA, layered industrial firewalls and a single shared printer. Done machine by machine, with no production downtime.

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Food manufacturing South Australia 3 min read

AI on the production line — machine knowledge in plain English, fully offline

A digital twin of a production machine built for AI — electrical and mechanical drawings, OEM manuals and SOPs ingested — so operators and maintenance can ask how the machine works and have its code explained in plain English, without anything going online.

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TIA Portal MCP server — V17 through V21

Let an AI agent drive TIA Portal directly over the Openness API — open projects, browse the tree, export/import blocks, compile. One build per version, MIT licensed.

Updated — now with more WinCC Unified tools: ExportPlcTags, export/import HMI text lists

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Working WinCC Unified controls — free

Ready-to-use screen widgets and dashboard controls for Siemens WinCC Unified. Take them, use them in production, and call us when you want a custom one.

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Gangdolf Automation · Adelaide SA

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