CAPABILITIES
- Instrumentation - we can have instruments manufactured and tested for custom requirements
- Provision of automation hardware including PLCs, HMIs, PCBs and electrical panels
- Coding a wide variety of PLCs for various applications
- Conformance to standards and local approvals including IEC
- Ladder, flow chart, visual basic and other programming
- Digital and analog device integration and testing
- Facilitation of certification of electrical equipment
- SCADA
- Design and manufacture of customised mechanical elements for automation systems
- Sourcing of instrumentation including delelopment and manufacture of customised instruments
- Communications including various wireless protocols, MODBUS, IOT, Gateway, and Zigbee
- Building and calibration of load cell weighing systems and integration into PLC automation
PROJECT EXAMPLE - CONCRETE ADMIXTURE DOSING SYSTEM
Fifth Element Automation completed this system from scratch including all pumps, flowmeters, sensors, controls and software.
Dosing pump bank fabricated and supplied by Fifth Element Automation
Control panel for up to six dosing pumps but expandable for more
Dosing is controled by touchscreen
Additional features - Control of mixing pump or tank agitator
PROJECT EXAMPLE - AERATED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM CONTROLLER
Our aerated wastewater treatment system (AWTS) controller comes with a rugged industrial quality electronics platform designed for reliability. System components include a PLC, PCB and HMI screen. Our AWTS controllers are cutomised to meet the requirements of the system manufacturers environmental approvals and licencing.
We also offer integration of the system with popular home automation systems, so users can receive system alarm notifications anywhere anytime on Android and IOS devices.
The HMI screen provides a comprehensive user interface with user inputs for system control, equipment status indication and alarms integrated with the Zigbee home automation system.
Programing of this system is in Ladder PLC language
Our AWTS controller can be integrated with the Zigbee home automation network, allowing the user to receive alarm notifications anywhere, anytime on IOS or Android mobile devices.
CAPABILITY - CIRCUIT BOARD DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE
Fifth Element Automation is able to design, specify and source circuit boards for any purpose. Our circuit boards provide clients with significant savings in labour and cost compared to building control panels by hand. The quality and uniformity of our printed circuit boards contribute to our client's success by eliminating the error associated with hand assembled control panels.
3D review of the circuit board design prior to production
The circuit board during the design process
After production, our circuit boards are tested using an automated testing jig to ensure quality and reliability.
LOAD CELLS AND LOAD CELL SIGNAL AMPLIFIERS
Our load cells and signal amplifiers can be supplied with a mass display unit or the signal can be integrated into PLC by 4-20mA signal or 0-10V signal
Fifth Element Automation can specify and provide a range of load cells and related electronics - Load cell amplifier
Load cell amplifier with durable die cast enclosure shown with 1000kg load cell
PROJECT EXAMPLE - MIXING TANK CONTROLLER
This project is to control a mixing tank, that pumps back into a storage tank while maintaininig level control in the mixing tank.
This system was programmed using ladder logic
INSTRUMENTATION
Fifth Element Automation is able to specify and source specialised instruments for our customer's requirements. For this, we tap into the expertise of a range of experienced manufacturers.
Instrumentation example - Pressure switch factory set to 17.5kPa for a specialised application. Features normally closed and normally open contacts.
Instrumentation example - Air pressure type water level switch set to 250mm H2O
MOTOR CONTROL
Fifth Element Automation is able to specify and configure sophisticated motor controllers and integrate the controllers into the PLC control system.
WEG vector inverter capable of 3 phase output from 240VAC single phase input up to 2.2kW
Bonfiglioli Synplus and Vectron drives can be configured for a wide range of motor control applications
COMMUNICATION, NETWORKING, IOT AND DATA COLLECTION
Fifth Element Automation is able to build and configure IOT and networking hardware and software for system control, data collection and status notification.
Device communication can be facilitated using a wide range of protocols such as MODBUS, CANBUS, 4G, WIFI or Zigbee and others.
Diverse network with IOT integration
Network with4G gateway with cloud integration