Ketsol/Services

Factory & process automation, end to end.

From the I/O list to the commissioning report — Ketsol designs, builds and commissions DCS, PLC and SCADA systems for regulated and discrete plants. Every engagement is led by engineers who have been on a live shopfloor.

Capabilities

Seven capability areas. One engineering team.

DCS

Distributed Control Systems

Greenfield & brownfield DCS engineering, alarm rationalisation (ISA-18.2), historian integration. Yokogawa, ABB, Honeywell, Emerson estates.

PLC

PLC programming

Siemens TIA, Rockwell Studio 5000, Schneider EcoStruxure. Recipe management, batch (S88), safety logic, drive integration.

SCD

SCADA & HMI

WinCC, FactoryTalk, Citect, AVEVA, Ignition. Templated faceplates, audit trails, role-based access aligned with GAMP 5.

BAC

BACnet & building automation

BACnet/IP & MS/TP integration across BMS, HVAC, chillers, AHUs, VFDs and metering. Tridium Niagara, Honeywell, Siemens Desigo, Schneider EBO — bridged into KMS for unified plant + facility visibility.

DC

Datacenter operations

DCIM, PUE & energy reporting, UPS / PDU / CRAC / chiller monitoring, hot-aisle / cold-aisle telemetry, leak & smoke alarms, capacity planning. 24×7 NOC handover with defined response SLAs.

SHF

Shopfloor automation

Andons, traceability stations, weigh & dispense, e-Logbooks. Hardware + software wired into KMS or your existing MES.

VAL

Validation & compliance

URS, FRS, IQ/OQ/PQ documentation. 21 CFR Part 11 & EU Annex 11 alignment for pharma and life-sciences customers.

IT ↔ OT integration

The bridge from the shopfloor to the rest of the business.

Most plants have rich data on the OT side — controllers, historians, BMS — and rich systems on the IT side — ERP, MES, quality, maintenance, BI. The gap between them is where production decisions get stuck. We close that gap and land everything in KMS, so a tag on a Modbus register and a work order in SAP live in the same model.

REST

API + event-driven integrations

REST, GraphQL, MQTT, Kafka and webhook flows between KMS and ERP/MES/EAM. Idempotent, retried, auditable — production-grade pipelines, not one-off scripts.

SAP

ERP & MES connectors

Pre-built connectors for SAP (BAPI & OData), Oracle E-Business, Dynamics 365 and the major MES platforms. Production orders, consumption, GR/GI, batch records — pushed and pulled, not CSV-imported overnight.

IAM

Identity, network & security

ISA-95 zoning, DMZ design, OPC-UA over TLS, AD/SSO & SAML, role-based access mapped between OT roles and IT identities. Audit trails on every cross-boundary call.

DAT

Unified data model

Asset hierarchy, tag taxonomy, batch & recipe schema agreed once and enforced on both sides. Dashboards on top stop disagreeing about what "OEE on Line 3" means.

CDC

Real-time CDC & sync

Change-data-capture from databases, OPC subscription from controllers — both arriving as events on the same KMS bus, so downstream consumers don't care which side originated the change.

OBS

Observability across the boundary

Per-flow latency, retry counts, schema-drift alarms, and lineage from controller-tag to ERP field. Operations sees green/red the same way IT does.

How an engagement runs

From URS to handover, in seven steps.

01

Discovery & URS

On-site walkdown, P&ID review, capture user requirements with the operations team that will actually run the system.

02

FRS & system architecture

Functional requirement spec, control philosophy, network & cyber architecture. Reviewed against ISA-95 layering.

03

Detailed engineering

I/O list, panel GA, EPLAN schematics, BoM. Long-lead procurement begins through our distribution channel.

04

Software development & FAT

PLC, HMI, SCADA development against the FRS. Factory Acceptance Test with the customer before anything leaves the workshop.

05

Site installation

Panel placement, field cabling supervision, loop checks. KMS edge gateway installed and bound to fieldbus on the same trip.

06

Commissioning & SAT

Cold & hot commissioning, recipe trials, performance qualification. Full SAT pack signed off.

07

Handover & AMC

Operator training, as-built drawings, KMS configured. Ongoing AMC with defined response SLAs.

Have an upcoming commissioning window?

Send us a P&ID and a target date. We'll come back with a sequenced engineering plan within a week.