Engineering tools

Automation and instrumentation tools

Calculators for the control panel and the plant floor: scaling 4–20 mA and 0–10 V signals into engineering units and PLC raw counts, and sizing pump motors from flow and head.

These are the calculations we do while commissioning control systems: turning a loop current into a pressure the operator can read, checking that a transmitter and a PLC channel are ranged the same way, and putting the right motor behind a pump. Each tool states its formula and where the numbers come from.

Signals and drives, not just arithmetic

Most commissioning faults we are called to are not broken hardware; they are a transmitter ranged 0–16 bar feeding a PLC block scaled 0–10 bar, or a pump motor chosen from the pump's nameplate rather than its duty point. The tools here make those numbers explicit so they can be checked against the drawings before power is applied. For the reasoning behind each one, read the paired automation guides.