Over time, even the best-designed control systems can degrade. After initial commissioning, it’s common for systems to undergo numerous tweaks, quick fixes, and workarounds; often in response to equipment replacements (like sensors or actuators), operational changes, or urgent repair needs. While these changes may get the system running again quickly, they’re rarely documented properly. As a result, outdated drawings, abandoned code in PLCs, HMIs, and SCADA/MES systems, and inconsistent configurations accumulate.
The outcome is a control system that becomes increasingly difficult to troubleshoot, less reliable, and unable to deliver the performance your operations demand.
172 Automation specializes in rehabilitating these systems. We take a comprehensive approach—gaining a deep understanding of your process, updating or creating accurate documentation for your operations and maintenance teams, and optimizing or rewriting control logic and user interfaces as needed to bring your system back to peak performance.