Systems Integration

Leap further ahead with your systems integration

Improve machine assets, processes, safety, and reliability

FLANDERS specializes in complex systems integration for industrial operations with heavy electricity demands. Whether you want to modernize your automation system, digitize manual operations, convert machines from DC to AC, or unify condition monitoring on a single cloud-based platform, the systems integrators at FLANDERS are up to the challenge.

Our machine and application experts will listen closely to what you want to achieve, consider all the angles, and recommend technical plus logistical integration strategies to get even more out of what you have planned.

We develop solutions for power generation, conversion, distribution, and control from substation to gearbox.

Industrial system integration without limitation

Trusted experts in the leading systems integration platforms

A Siemens Solution Partner

A Siemens Solution Partner for systems integration, we’re authorized to develop solutions, implement technologies, and repair systems that carry the Siemens warranty.

Siemens-certified Engineers

Every one of our Siemens-certified Engineers has undergone a week-long training and assessment confirming their expertise on each platform and knowledge of systems integration best practices.

We’re also certified in PROFIBUS, drive repairs, and service. Plus, we’re a distributor of Siemens PLCs and low and medium voltage drives and motors.

ABB systems integration

We’re an authorized distributor and systems integrator for ABB low voltage AC and DC drives, PLCs for industrial machines, and also Baldor motors.

Toshiba systems integration

We offer systems integration for a wide range of low and medium voltage motors and variable frequency drives (VFDs) from Toshiba.

Rockwell Automation

A Rockwell Systems Integrator, FLANDERS develops solutions using Allen-Bradley ControlLogix™, CompactLogix™, and PowerFlex drives. We also upgrade outdated PLC-5 and SLC systems.

Fully versed in a wide range of HMI platforms

  • Siemens SIMATIC WinCC
  • Wonderware
  • Intellution
  • Citect
  • Rockwell FactoryTalk View
  • And others

We’re not desk engineers

Our hands-on experts—and innovators—have decades of experience not only in engineering but also in the custom manufacturing, installation, optimization, field service, and repair of both power systems and control systems. We know the systems we integrate because we build them from scratch.

We know the common points of failure, and fix them. We know the operational challenges, and address them. We know the questions you might not think to ask, and answer them.

When you partner with FLANDERS, you partner with true hands-on industrial machine experts who bring it all together in systems integration.

Field-smart system and electrical integration

Building your power and process automation architecture with tight horizontal and vertical data integration can improve uptime, increase energy efficiency, and lower life cycle costs for your operation.

Optimizing manufacturing and industrial processes

FLANDERS develops master control systems, instrumentation, safety systems, and programmable logic controller (PLCs) that use a variety of IEC 61158 standard fieldbus, HART, and Ethernet protocols.

Stand-alone and coordinated automation controls

We can add functionality to an existing process, upgrade your automation equipment, or migrate your automation system to an entirely new platform—from start to finish.

Benefits
  • Increase machine control, speed, precision, and reliability.
  • Digitize manual operations.
  • Distance operators from high-risk situations.
  • Improve efficiency to reduce energy costs

Advanced safety systems

Our team can collaborate with yours to complete a safety evaluation, define your risk category levels, and identify your safety needs.

Once that’s complete, our control systems engineers can help you define machine stop criteria, design safety PLCs, and integrate those PLCs into your system.

Benefits
  • Implement state-of-the-art monitoring and failsafes.
  • Set customized thresholds and alerts.
  • Analyze and mitigate electrical hazards.

HMI design and integration

We take special pride in exceptional HMI design that makes life easier for operators.

Benefits
  • Streamline system operation and reduce information silos.
  • Improve data visualizations and reporting for decision support.
  • Develop UI for easier operation and reduced operator fatigue.
  • Increased access and process visibility by utilizing a web-based interface.

For legacy systems, we can often take a completely manual process…“You have to push this button here, walk up this tower to go push this other button, then walk back…” and stick it on a computer screen. We can enable people can see their complete operation—what state all of the hardware and material are in—just from a desk.

We provide the best options for your scenario

Hardware, software, and configurations

When you’re weighing control platforms, hardware, configurations, and strategies for systems integration, we can help you make the right decision faster.

Trusted by the control platform developers and machine OEMs alike, we know the application-specific pros and cons of your system integration options inside and out. Plus, as field services specialists with decades of experience, we’ve seen how different solutions play out in the field.

We translate those into best practices and technology integrations that perform better out of the gate.

Example project

Complex systems integration with a fail-safe plan

Modernizing automation for a steel mill

A steel company enlisted FLANDERS to upgrade its hot mill section from an obsolete Siemens S5 system to Allen-Bradley ControlLogix®. For this field sprint—completed in one week onsite—we handled every aspect of the upgrade: design, hardware, software, electrical, configuration, commissioning, and optimization.

With thousands of points of potential failure in a such complex system integration, we reduced risk by building a failsafe into the system such that we could flip a switch and instantly revert to the old system.

When we fired it up, however, the new system took over without a hitch, and the mill was ready to heat and roll.

FLANDERS mill solutions

Let’s talk systems integration

Depending on what you need, we can evaluate or define your scope of supply, provide industry-proven options and alternatives, or recommend how to phase in new technologies over time.

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