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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Food manufacturing South Australia 4 min read

Packaging KPIs from one count signal — 15 lines on one live board

Fifteen packaging lines, one product-count signal each, read once through the plant’s own MQTT broker. From that single signal the board derives running, slow and stopped state, rate against rated speed, shift progress against target, lost time by line and OEE — live in any browser, on-prem, nothing written back to a machine.

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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, V17 through V21.

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

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CODESYS MCP server — the IDE stays open

Same idea for CODESYS V3.5: 41 tools an agent can call to create POUs, write ST, compile, log in to the runtime and read live variables — with the IDE visible the whole time.

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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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