Audit, plan and execute modernisation of PLC, SCADA, drives and networks before ageing hardware and unsupported software create operational risk.
Migration is usually a planning problem before it becomes an engineering problem. We start with the audit and roadmap so upgrades can be sequenced around shutdown windows, budget cycles and operational constraints.
If your control panel is over 10 years old, ask yourself three questions:
If you answered yes to any of those or “I’m not sure”, your panel may already be developing a reliability problem.
Not a crisis. Not yet.
But the kind of thing that quietly gets worse until it takes a line down with it.
Ageing control panels don’t usually fail all at once. They degrade slowly, then suddenly. And by the time the fault is obvious, the cost is a lot higher than it needed to be.
At ElcoTech, we specialise in control panel audits, upgrades and replacements across WA. If your panel is showing any of these signs, it’s worth getting a second set of eyes on it before it becomes an emergency.
Six deliverables that turn an ageing control system into a sequenced, costed plan.
Register of PLCs, HMIs, SCADA servers, drives and network devices with lifecycle status.
What is still available, what is scarce and what is already a risk.
Legacy standards gaps, IEC 62443 issues and OT segmentation risks.
Sequence based on risk, cost and downtime impact.
Execution plan with hold points, rollback options and shutdown coordination.
A practical multi-year budget shape that management can use.
We preserve useful operational knowledge where it still makes sense, such as tag names, alarm philosophy, sequence logic and existing conventions, while moving the platform onto something supportable.
PLC-5, SLC-500, S5, S7-300, Modicon Quantum and Mitsubishi Q migrations.
Wonderware, AVEVA, Ignition, WinCC and FactoryTalk migration work.
Older PowerFlex, Micromaster and Altivar platforms refreshed and retuned.
DH+, Remote I/O, Profibus, serial Modbus and flat OT network refresh.
Panel rebuilds, marshalling rationalisation, RIO swaps and switchgear refresh.
Tag databases, drawings, FAT/SAT packs and operating documentation.
ElcoTech plans and executes obsolescence and migration projects for mining and minerals processing, power and energy, water and wastewater, infrastructure, manufacturing and commercial buildings across Perth, the Pilbara, the Wheatbelt and the South West. Each sector carries its own lifecycle conventions, such as shutdown calendars, regulatory drivers and change-management norms, and we plan to yours, not ours.
Tell us what is ageing, what is constrained and when the shutdown windows are available.
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