Two engineers wiring an open cabinet beside a special-machine frame

Industries / In place

Renew the control
without scrapping the mechanics.

Sound mechanics do not have to be stripped out.

Industry

A special machine does not carry a catalogue template.

A machine builder and an existing plant do not wait for the same catalogue cell. The frame is sound, the motion is special, and the software often belongs to one person.

SENKRA does not enter this work by drawing a new line. Cabinet, I/O, and the operator’s real reset are read first. Then control, servo, and safety are renewed in stages — the mechanics stay in place.

Open special-machine frame and motion axes

Services

Three services locked in place.

On a machine, scope is not a strip-out list. It is the cabinet that was read, the dictionary that was written, the station that was tied in.

All services
  1. 05

    Retrofit

    The existing cabinet and software are read in place. Control, servo, and safety are renewed in stages.

    Review
  2. 03

    PLC & SCADA

    Special-machine PLC, HMI, and alarm — written in a language the next engineer can still read.

    Review
  3. 02

    Line Automation

    Separate units are tied into one line. Sequence and reset do not override each machine’s own tempo.

    Review

Need

An old brain slows a sound body.

The request arrives as “a new line.” The real need is to shorten intervention time.

  1. 01

    The controller cannot be spared

    When the card cannot be found, the stop stretches. The mechanics run; the software cannot keep up.

  2. 02

    The code belongs to one person

    Tags are scattered, comments are missing. Intervention means waiting for that person.

  3. 03

    Stations speak different languages

    Special units run at their own tempo; the line guesses at a shared interlock.

Capability

Inventory, translation, stage.

Capability is not selling a new frame. It is carrying the old language across without losing it.

  1. EN

    Cabinet inventory

    I/O, spare, and risk are written on site. Scope comes from the door, not from a catalogue.

  2. HV

    Motion

    Servo and axis are updated so they can speak to the existing mechanics.

  3. EM

    Safety

    A patched gate and interlock are tied to the line sequence. Reset is not rediscovered every time.

  4. KD

    Staged exit

    Which unit goes quiet, and when, is planned. A weekend of “everything changes” is not assumed.

Application

Strip-out is not the default step.

Engineer proving a cabinet update on an existing line

Application · Retrofit

Line control updated in place

Challenge · A spare for the controller was getting harder, the software sat with one person, and every stop was stretching. The mechanics were sound.

Solution · The cabinet was read in place. Control and safety were renewed in stages; tags were translated into the operator’s language. The line stayed in production through overlapping stops.

Special-machine frame and motion axes

Application · Special machine

Motion and HMI in one dictionary

Challenge · The special frame was finished; the software was imprisoned inside the pendant. The next intervention was waiting for the person who wrote it.

Solution · Axis, safety, and screen were written in the same tag language. The machine became tie-able to the line sequence.

Why

We do not arrive with a new-line promise.

A machinery customer does not come to us to scrap the frame. They come to shorten the stop and make the software shareable.

  1. The existing language first

    A new architecture is not written by ignoring the old cabinet.

  2. The stage is planned

    Which unit goes quiet, and when, is not a “it will be done over the weekend.”

Projects

Work tied to this rhythm.

The mechanics stay in place; control is renewed in stages.

All projects
Two engineers updating a custom-machine skeleton in place beside an open cabinet

Machinery

Custom Machine Control Retrofit

Challenge
A controller that could not be spared, software that belonged to one person, and interventions that stretched on every stop.
Solution
The cabinet was read in place. Control, servo, and safety were renewed in stages; tags were translated into the operator’s language.
Engineer at a special-machine frame with a teach pendant

Industries

Lock the machine scope

A special machine or an ageing cabinet. We lock together which layer is renewed first — with the stop planned.

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