The automation and electric drive technology company goes beyond traditional requirements. It is implementing a tool in project development that simulates its customers’ systems. This facilitates process control, which will ultimately improve field operations.

All projects associated with control systems require CAT testing (Configuration Acceptance Test)to validate that programming has been carried out in accordance with technical specifications and customer engineering documents. These tests ensure that everything programmed in the PLC equipment and HMI (Human-Machine Interface) deployments is as required by the project.

Tunning is incorporating a simulation tool that improves the way these tests are understood, approached, and streamlined. “It is the closest thing to the customer’s production process, as it allows for a more detailed battery of tests, which could have a positive impact on future operations, making them more reliable,” says Eduardo Morgado, Project Manager at Tunning Ingeniería.

In the project that Tunning Ingeniería recently developed for Codelco’s Andean Division, these tests significantly improved the results of the process.

_{Eduardo Morgado, Project Manager at Tunning Ingeniería.}

In this context, Morgado explained that it is vitally important that not only project personnel participate in these tests, but also plant maintenance and operations teams, as they are the ones who best understand the processes and requirements.

“These tests allow for a better interpretation of the processes by incorporating the work teams, thus optimizing the dynamics of participation in the execution of the project and the various proposed solutions. In this way, the execution times of the tests, the ‘re-work’ during commissioning and, consequently, the delivery times are reduced,” concludes the Project Manager.