Services
Modernisation and existing plants
A plant outlives its control system. When components are discontinued or a conversion is due, success is not decided by the spare part but by whether the planning knows the plant as it really is today.
When this service is needed
- Control components are discontinued and the spare parts supply is getting tight.
- The plant is to be extended or converted, but the documents are old.
- Production can hardly stop for the conversion.
- The plant contains historical changes that were never documented.
- Different parts of the plant follow standards from different decades.
Result
- A conversion planned on the real plant, not on its paper state
- A list of the deviations between drawing and plant
- Steps your own maintenance team can carry out
- Documentation that is correct after the conversion, as the basis for the next one
Adjacent tradesControl cabinet building · PLC programming · Installation · Commissioning · InspectionsWe do not carry out these trades ourselves. On request we bring in specialised partners and coordinate the interfaces, so you keep a single technical point of contact.
We take on the electrical design there is no time for in house.
- Electrical design
- Since 1998
- Employees
- 15
- CAE systems (EPLAN, WSCAD, ELCAD)
- 3
- Projects since 1998
- 2,300+
Why FISEKON
One contact, not a distribution list
Whoever takes your project also works on it.
Your CAE system, not ours
EPLAN, WSCAD or ELCAD, using your part master.
Existing plants are our everyday work
Plant runs, documents do not match. That is where we start.
Capacity without a permanent post
Design capacity when you need it.
Process
How we work together
As-is survey
We reconcile the documents with the plant and find what has changed unnoticed over the years.
Deviations and effort
You get the list of deviations and know what the backlog costs before placing the order.
Concept in steps
With replacement, reserves and sequence in view, the conversion is cut so the operation can absorb it.
Design
The new technology is planned and worked into the existing documentation.
Execution and feedback
The steps are carried out by your maintenance team or coordinated partners and documented.
Replacing discontinued components is the easy part of a retrofit. What tips such projects over are the changes of the past twenty years that never flowed back into the documents. Think of the extra terminal, the relocated drive, the jumper somebody fitted and nobody noted. Anyone planning from the old drawings is planning on a plant that no longer exists in that form.
That is why the as-is survey comes before the concept. We reconcile the existing documents with the plant and first deliver a list of the deviations. Only then does the conversion concept follow. It settles what gets replaced, which reserves are still available in the cabinets, and in which order it can be carried out without stopping production longer than necessary.
We cut the conversion steps so your maintenance team can carry them. With many customers they execute the steps themselves. Every change from conversion and commissioning is fed back into the documentation. What remains is a plant that runs and a set of documents that matches it, forming the basis for the next conversion.
From a project
Paper manufacturing
Control system retrofit in paper manufacturing
Replacing Simatic S5, ET200 and Sinec L2 in a running plant, planned in steps the customer's own maintenance team can carry out.
Frequently asked
Modernisation & existing plants
You have a technical task? We will look at how it can be solved.
Discuss a projectIs it a problem that our drawings are outdated?
It is the normal case, and exactly why every retrofit starts with the as-is survey. Reconciling drawings and plant is part of the service, not your prerequisite.
Can the conversion be done without interrupting production?
That cannot be promised across the board. It depends on the plant, its condition and the available downtime windows. We cut the conversion so interruptions stay short or fall into planned stops. In individual projects it succeeded without interruption.
Who carries out the conversion?
That is your choice. Many customers execute the steps with their own maintenance team, and we plan them accordingly. Where trades are missing, specialised partners can be brought in. We coordinate the interfaces.
Related services
- Digitising legacy drawingsPaper, scans and legacy systems become a consistently structured CAE project, not a picture inside a new program.
- Technical documentation & revisionsStructured documentation, revisions and upkeep of existing plant documents. So they are still correct in ten years.
- Electrical designPlanning and implementation of electrical designs for industrial plants, from new projects to the integration of existing systems.
Contact
Tell us what it is about.
A phone call or three lines is enough. From the very start you talk to the people who will later work on your project, not to a distribution list.
Direct
- Phone+49 (0) 5247 4070-66
- Emailinfo@fisekon.com
- AvailabilityMon to Fri, 8 am to 5 pm CET
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