Industrial automation & production-data systems

The plant floor, made legible.

PLC, SCADA, MES and production-data systems for manufacturing.

Flex Integration designs, develops and commissions industrial automation and information systems. We work with Siemens S7 and TIA Portal, Rockwell Automation / Allen-Bradley PLCs, as well as AVEVA System Platform, Siemens WinCC and Ignition.

We connect PLCs, instruments and SCADA platforms with MES, production reports, traceability systems and real-time dashboards. We support both new installations and existing systems that need to be expanded, integrated or modernised.

18+ yrs
Delivering and commissioning automation systems for the food and process industries.
SCADA
AVEVA System Platform, AVEVA OMI, Historian, Siemens WinCC and Ignition.
Global
Projects across Europe, the Americas, India and the Middle East.
AVEVA System Platform Siemens WinCC Ignition InTouch OMI Historian MES OPC UA Siemens S7 / TIA Rockwell / Allen-Bradley SQL Server Production Reporting Traceability OEE Data Collection Production Data Dashboards KPIs AVEVA System Platform Siemens WinCC Ignition InTouch OMI Historian MES OPC UA Siemens S7 / TIA Rockwell / Allen-Bradley SQL Server Production Reporting Traceability OEE Data Collection Production Data Dashboards KPIs
Services

From the plant floor
to production reporting.

We work across the complete automation and production-data layer: field equipment, PLCs, SCADA, historians, MES, databases, reports and management dashboards. By taking responsibility for the interfaces between these systems, we deliver a solution that is easier to operate, maintain and extend.

01
SCADA & System Platform
We design, expand and migrate AVEVA System Platform, InTouch, AVEVA OMI, Historian, Siemens WinCC and Ignition systems. Our work includes system architecture, object templates, standards, redundancy, testing and onsite commissioning.
  • AVEVA System Platform
  • Siemens WinCC
  • Ignition
  • Migrations
→
02
PLC & control systems
We develop, modify and commission PLC control systems using Siemens S7 and TIA Portal, and Rockwell Automation / Allen-Bradley platforms such as ControlLogix and CompactLogix. We also work with Omron, Beckhoff and other established and legacy PLC platforms according to the requirements of each project, including installations that need to be extended or integrated with modern SCADA and data systems.
  • Siemens S7 / TIA
  • Rockwell / Allen-Bradley
  • ControlLogix / CompactLogix
  • Omron / Beckhoff
→
03
Industrial integration
We connect analysers, weighing systems, PLCs and third-party software using OPC UA / DA, SuiteLink, DDE, Modbus TCP and custom interfaces. When equipment is old or proprietary, we find a practical and maintainable way to make the required data available.
  • OPC UA / DA
  • SuiteLink / DDE
  • Modbus TCP
  • Custom interfaces
→
04
MES
Order execution, electronic batch records, genealogy and material traceability, modelled on ISA-95 and fitted to how your operators actually work on the line.
  • ISA-95
  • Batch records
  • Genealogy
  • Quality gates
→
05
Data collection
A reliable acquisition layer with store-and-forward, time alignment and contextualisation at the edge, so signals arrive tagged and timestamped, ready for every metric downstream.
  • Edge buffering
  • Contextualisation
  • Historian
  • SQL / time series
→
06
Production reporting
We develop production, batch, CIP, OEE, downtime, yield and energy reports. Information can be presented through web dashboards, Power BI or scheduled PDF reports, using consistent calculations throughout the site.
  • OEE / downtime
  • CIP / batch
  • Power BI
  • Scheduled PDF
→
07
Production data & dashboards
Live web dashboards that bring production data together in one place: OEE, throughput, downtime, yield, energy and quality. Role-based views for the line, the shift office and management, using the same calculations across the site.
  • Web dashboards
  • Real-time data
  • Role-based views
  • One calculation
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Approach

How we work.

Every project follows the same path: understand the process before touching the software, document as we build, and hand over a system your own team can operate and extend.

01

Assess

Walk the line. Map assets, signals, existing control layers and the reports people already keep in spreadsheets.

02

Architect

Define the object model, naming standards, network topology and data flow, agreed before a single tag is created.

03

Build & commission

Develop against templates, test offline, then commission in staged cutovers planned to minimise production disruption.

04

Transfer

Full documentation, operator and maintainer training, and a support period sized to your shift pattern.

Platforms

What we work with.

AVEVA System Platform is one of our main areas of expertise. We also work with Siemens WinCC, Ignition, PLC systems, historians, SQL Server and ERP integrations, and recommend solutions based on the existing plant and its technical requirements.

AVEVA System Platform
SCADA / Supervisory
Siemens WinCC
SCADA / Supervisory
Ignition
SCADA / Supervisory
AVEVA OMI
Visualisation
Siemens S7 / TIA
PLC / Control
Rockwell / Allen-Bradley
PLC / Control
Omron
PLC / Control
Beckhoff
PLC / Control
AVEVA Historian
Time series
AVEVA MES
Operations
OPC UA / DA
Connectivity
SQL Server
Data layer
Power BI
Reporting
SAP / ERP
Business systems
Work

Examples of
our work.

A sample of the kind of projects we take on across food, dairy and process plants. Customer names are kept confidential, but the work is real.

SCADA migrations
Legacy InTouch and WinCC installations moved to modern SCADA architectures.
Analyser integration
Laboratory and process analysers connected into PLC and SCADA systems.
Batch & CIP reporting
Batch, CIP and production reporting for food and dairy plants.
Traceability
Material genealogy from intake through to finished production.
Reporting modernisation
Legacy reporting applications replaced with modern web-based systems.
System integration
Integration between PLC, SCADA, MES, SQL databases and ERP platforms.
About

Industrial experience,
applied to your project.

Flex Integration is an industrial automation and software engineering company based in Faro, Portugal. It is led by Paulo Louro, an automation engineer with more than 18 years of experience delivering and commissioning systems for the food and process industries, with projects across Europe (Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland and the United Kingdom), as well as the United States, Canada, Uruguay, India and the Middle East. We work directly with engineering, production, maintenance and IT teams, from the first technical assessment through development, onsite commissioning and support.

Contact

Tell us what you
need to improve.

Whether you need to replace an old SCADA system, connect a machine, improve production reporting or introduce traceability, send us a short description of the current situation. We can review the requirements with you and propose a realistic first step.

ContactPaulo Louro
AddressPraceta Infante Dom Henrique, Lote 2, 2.º Esq.
8000-123 Faro, Portugal
VATPT515967181