Industrial Facilities
Analysis and solution design for complex industrial facilities with multiple assets and systems: interoperability, data and a transformation plan that decides how each piece fits before touching anything.
Consulting for complex industrial facilities
A complex industrial facility rarely gets built in one go. It grows in stages, and the result is a mosaic of assets and systems from different generations: PLCs from several vendors, a SCADA covering part of the process, an ERP living in another world. Each subsystem works; the whole cannot be governed as one. Captia Consulting works at the analysis and design layer, centred on the industrial interoperability diagnosis, which delivers a decision document (what to integrate, in what order, with which technology), supported by architecture design and, for multi-year scopes, a transformation roadmap.
Execution belongs to another layer: unifying buildings, assets and distributed control systems into a single data layer is the specialty of Connect for industrial facilities. Captia works from Xàtiva across La Costera, València and the Comunitat Valenciana.
Frequently asked questions
- What counts here as a complex industrial facility?
- A facility where multiple assets and systems coexist: several buildings, machinery of different generations, distributed control systems, ERP, SCADA and management software that do not talk to each other. Complexity is not size but the number of heterogeneous pieces that must work as one.
- What does the interoperability diagnosis deliver?
- A decision document, not a deployment: which systems to integrate, in what order and with which technology. It starts from a real inventory of PLCs, ERP, SCADA, sensors and management software, and designs how to connect them considering what already exists. The client then decides who executes each phase.
- Must old equipment be replaced before the facility can be integrated?
- Not necessarily. Part of the architecture work is determining which older assets can join the data layer through gateways or additional sensing and which are worth replacing. The decision is taken on operational and economic criteria, not by default, and is documented in the transformation plan.
- Who executes the connectivity the plan defines?
- Captia's Connect unit, specialised in unifying buildings, assets and distributed control systems into a single data layer, or whichever provider the client prefers. Consulting stays at the analysis and design layer precisely so the recommendation does not depend on who executes.