Lead with Data-Centric Industrial Automation

Cogent leverages best-in-class industry standards to build custom solutions that put you in control

• Build your optimal plant-wide automation and control systems.
• Ensure high reliability and maintainability with minimal spare parts inventory.
• Improve quality control, better respond to changing input variables, and reduce downtime.

Our highly skilled team offers flexible solutions and experience with a wide range of major PLC vendors

• Cogent has the technical services expertise you need to design hardware, program, commission, and optimize your control system equipment to meet the needs of your processes and business.
• Cogent works with existing customer standards or uses its reusable templates to program systems that are easy to maintain and troubleshoot.

Cogent operator command systems make it easy for operators to understand and control all processes effectively

• Gain best-in-class human-machine interface design.
• Choose from a multitude of solutions, from small HMI implementations to large-scale SCADA systems.
• Leverage Cogent’s deep experience in human factors engineering.
• Provide operators relevant information to efficiently overcome any interruption.

Cogent’s hands-on testing is designed to optimize any onsite commission before it’s installed

• Demonstrate factory acceptance on Cogent-developed or OEM-developed PLC and HMI configurations/programming.
• Provide the OEM, operators, and maintenance personnel with the opportunity to review and test elements and address defects prior to site commissioning.

Cogent’s expert change control service minimizes disruptions and improves safety

• Introduce system changes in a controlled and coordinated manner.
• Ensure logic changes can be logged and communicated effectively.
• Reduce the possibility of introducing faults into the system or unintentionally undoing other changes.

Maximize the value of data by achieving full connectivity with Cogent

• Enable device connectivity to all the diverse communication protocols on the plant floor.
• Cogent has extensive expertise in industrial IT/OT systems.
• Cogent provides connections to a broad range of systems within the operation and IIOT solutions, including PLCs, BMS, RTUs, DCSs, intelligent devices, and controllers.
• Cogent knows how to connect with most industrial networks/buses, including Ethernet/IP, Modbus/TCP, DeviceNet, ControlNet, Profibus, Profinet, Modbus, and BACNet.

Provide personnel with quick access to information through a “single pane of glass,” allowing them to gain valuable insight into operational conditions and important issues

• Our tailored large-scale infrastructure monitoring systems centralize visibility of OT systems and improve response times to abnormal events.
• Gain data-driven decision support that allows efficient dispatching of resources to problem areas – down to the equipment level.
• Enable the generation of timely work orders, providing maintenance and reliability engineers with the information they need for planning maintenance activities.

Ensure abnormal situations are handled quickly and correctly with comprehensive alarm/event management

• Leverage Cogent’s in-depth experience with process equipment and our relationships with equipment suppliers.
• Properly prioritize and reduce nuisance alarming.
• Build comprehensive alarm/event management strategies.
• Ensure that only actionable alarms/events are delivered to operators to improve results.