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SCA Consultants Controls & Automation

Controls integration & automation services

Built to hold
through startup.

SCA Consultants designs, programs, tests and commissions PLC, HMI and SCADA systems — and writes the documentation that lets your operators and your next integrator understand them.

40+ yrsProcess controls experience FEED → CommissioningFull project lifecycle 5 sectorsMidstream · Chemical · Pharma · CPG · Water
PT 101 FIELD TRANSMITTER HART / 4–20 mA MARSHALLING / JB LOOP CHECK · SAT ControlLogix / CompactLogix AOI · UDT · ESD LOGIC EtherNet/IP ALARM SUMMARY HMI / SCADA ISA-101 · ISA-18.2 OPERATOR COMMAND / SETPOINT TYPICAL LOOP — SCA SCOPE 01 Instrument index & specs 02 I/O list & loop sheets 03 Control narrative 04 PLC & HMI configuration 05 FAT / SAT procedures 06 Commissioning support

Every deliverable we write maps to a point on this path.

Project lifecycle

We pick up the scope wherever it stands

01

Define

BOD, UFRS, control system architecture, budget-level estimate.

02

Design

Instrument index, I/O list, panel layouts, loop sheets, specs.

03

Specify

Control narrative, cause & effect, detailed design specification.

04

Configure

PLC logic, AOI/UDT libraries, HMI screens, alarm rationalization.

05

Test

FAT at the fabricator, SAT and loop checks in the field.

06

Start Up

Commissioning plan, PSSR support, tuning, operator turnover.

Services

What SCA does

Turnkey control system integration and technical services for owner-operators, EPCs, OEMs and construction contractors — on projects from a single skid to a full facility.

SVC-01

System Integration

PLC, HMI and SCADA integration across single-vendor skids and mixed-manufacturer facilities.

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PLC & HMI Programming

Ladder, function block and structured text under a governed standards library, so the next engineer can read it.

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SVC-03

Control System Design

The document set that defines the system before anyone touches code or copper.

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I&C Detail Design

Instrument and I/O deliverables produced from the IFC P&IDs and reconciled against the PLC program.

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SVC-05

Testing & Commissioning

Written, executed and signed test procedures — not a spreadsheet of checkmarks.

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Safety & OT Security

Safety instrumented systems and control network hardening scoped against the governing standards.

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Assessment & Front-End Support

Independent evaluation while the decision is still open — before it becomes a change order.

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Why SCA

A principal on your project, not a bench

The engineer who scopes your project is the engineer who writes the narrative and stands in the field at loop check. Drafting and specialty resources scale under that direction as the work requires.

Documentation that outlives the startup crew

Most controls packages fail their owner two years later, when the people who built them are gone and nothing on file explains why the logic does what it does.

SCA writes the control narrative, cause & effect and design specification as the primary product — not as a closeout afterthought.

Cross-sector method

Practice built across regulated and unregulated process industries.

The rigor that pharmaceutical validation demands is what makes a midstream turnover package still hold up at the next tie-in.

Have a P&ID set and no controls scope yet?

Start with a scope review