Hydraulic Control System for Land Based Rigs

Currently Solid State Automation is the primary supplier of control systems for a major hydraulic skid manufacturer. Our automation systems control all major aspects of a hydraulically based system including rig up and rig down as well as a walking system. Both Class 1 Div 1 and Class 1 Div 2 systems have been built for this application.

 Drilling Rig Being Lowered

 Main Control System

 Control System Internals

 Class 1 Div 1 Enclosure with Operators

 Class 1 Div 1 System Internals

 USS Nassau Ship Monitoring System

The Beaumont Reserve Fleet required a monitoring system capable of tracking temperature, humidity, intrusion, corrosion, and fire protection. Addionally, they needed a system that could communicate all that information back to a central monitoring station. Solid State Automation installed a system aboard the USS Nassau that included 6 fire monitoring boxes, 12 humidty/temperature/air quality sensors, 2 intrusion detectors, and 3 current transducers to monitor ship power. All the information the monitoring system gathered was transmitted wirelessly over two miles back to the central monitoring station and displayed on a custom HMI. The system also included a solar panel and battery array that enabled the system to run even in the event of a shore power loss.

 USS Nassau

 Main Control Cabinet

 Zone 1 Moniotoring Box

 Monitoring Box Mounted to Dehumidifier

 System HMI

 Lower Granite Dam Hydromet Upgrade

Solid State Automation was contracted by the Army Corp of Engineers to upgrade their Hydromet system at the Lower Granite River Dam. Installation included putting in new sample station equipment at various locations along the snake river as well as building a new communication network to bring the sample station data back to the dam. Work also included building an HMI which gives real time data of all the sample stations, the communications network, and feeds information into the local SCADA system.

 The Lower Granite River Dam

 Hydromet System Monitoring Screen for the HMI

 Dam Control Room HMI

 Measurement Equipment at one of the Sample Stations

 Keesler AFB Training Simulators

Keesler AFB required an experienced control system organization to provided expertise on how to teach their students on municipality control systems with an emphasis on water management, electrical systems, power distribution, and integrated control systems in a municipal setting. The project was centered around providing an overview training class on control systems for Air Force cadets and also included providing a complete control system that fully modeled a municipal system. The control system employed a SCADA system, multi PLC communication and control with both discreet and analog signals across the system as well as wireless integration.

 Training Simulators

 Trainer PLC

 Kirtland AFB Vent Control System Upgrade

At Kirtland AFB Solid State Automation was tasked with overhauling five PLC based control systems in a research laboratory and providing a control system that gave them real time information on the system status as well as air flow rate and other information via a custom designed HMI. The system included four process controllers as well as a central VFD controller that communicated over a Modbus/Ethernet system to a central control console.

 Control Unit

 PLC Controller and Relays

 Relay Box