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Since 1992, control systems engineers have turned to ProtoLink to provide
software integration and development assistance beyond what is available from
traditional systems integrators. Our staff is comprised of degreed electrical,
mechanical, and computer engineers who are experts in developing
advanced software for the Microsoft platform.
This unique combination of skills offers two primary advantages over
traditional systems integrators:
1. Our Windows, web, and database development expertise leaves us ideally
suited to integrate important process monitoring and reporting products, such as:
- Wonderware InTouch
- Wonderware Industrial Application Server
- Wonderware IndustrialSQL Server
- Wonderware ActiveFactory
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- Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
- Data Dynamics Active Reports
- Seagate Cystal Reports
- VisiBit
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2. If necessary, we can develop custom software to supplement off-the-shelf
packages. For example, we have developed the following types of applications in
response to requests from control systems engineers:
OPC Servers
- Statistical analysis routines
- Simulators
- ActiveX controls
- Client/Server applications for configuration and reporting
- Web applications for configuration and reporting
- Middleware for interfacing control systems to business systems
- Windows services for buffering database-bound process data
Like traditional integrators, we offer HMI and PLC programming services,
although we believe our extensive software development experience produces more
structured and maintainable results. Finally, by utilizing degreed engineers
rather than technicians, we are able to repeatedly deliver successful results
on complex projects across a wide variety of industries.
Click on the links below to see example projects:
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Packaging Weight Verification System
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ProtoLink developed a weight compliance system to monitor and optimize the performance of statistical weighers utilized in the packaging rooms of a major snack food manufacturer.
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Automatic Well Test System
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ProtoLink developed a comprehensive SCADA system to enable a major oil company to monitor and control production and well testing.
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Packaging Loop Balance
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ProtoLink developed a control system to optimally route potato chips through the conveyor network of a large food processing plant.
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Oilfield Production Management
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ProtoLink developed a web application that supports the validation, modification, and reporting of oilfield test and production data.
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Explosives Delivery System
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ProtoLink personnel designed and developed a system to control the movement of high-explosives during their manufacturing process at an Army ammunition plant.
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Municipal Water SCADA System
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ProtoLink developed a SCADA system to accommodate a mid-sized American city's current and future needs for monitoring and storing water utilities data.
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