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TCS (NZ) Ltd

Company Profile
TCS (NZ) Ltd is committed to enhancing its customer's success with products, services and responsiveness that set industry standards for quality and value. We relentlessly strive to be the best in every aspect of our business by fostering a culture of trust, teamwork, responsibility, high expectations, and open communications with employees, customers and suppliers.

As a licensed DeviceNet vendor and manufacturer, an authorised Rockwell Automation System Integrator, and a Rockwell Software Strategic Provider, TCS strives to ensure high standard, and cost effective, products and services. TCS is committed to maintaining a friendly and professional relationship with both customers and suppliers.

TCS encourages every employee to recommend improvements in company policies or procedures which would improve or enhance products or services

TCS has formed long-term close relationships with leading automation providers that allows it access to both current and future technologies.

• Authorised Rockwell Automation system integrator
• Rockwell Software Strategic Provider
• Authorised Digital Equipment agent
• Founding Member ODVA (NZ/AUS) user group
• Licensed ODVA vendor
• Associate Member of EAN New Zealand
  

Contact Details

Tait Control Systems Limited P O Box 20489 Te Rapa Hamilton Phone: +64-7-849 7729 Fax: +64-7-849 2548 Web: www.tcs-nz.co.nz

Industries Served
TCS works in a multitude of industries, utilising various technologies from simple control logic to advanced process control. TCS services industries all around the world. The Dairy Industry would currently account for 60% of the work.

• Dairy - Powder transportation, 25kg powder packing, 500kg bulk packing, high speed canning, CIP, production monitor, statistical analysis and reporting, DH+ to ODBC bridging, cheese packing, coding and weighing, palletising, pre gassing, post gassing.
• Fertiliser - Dispatch, dynamic continuous batch weigh feeding, Acidulation plant, Acid plant, production monitor, statistical analysis and reporting, mainframe bridging.
• Timber - High & Medium kiln control, recovery kiln control, raw bin grading / sorting, resaw milling, horizontal milling, production monitor, statistical analysis and reporting, mainframe bridging.
• Textile - Heat Setting, loom control, production monitor, statistical analysis and reporting, mainframe bridging.
• Canning - Can manufacture, palletising, glue application, vision verification, quality control, production monitoring.
• Waste Management - flow control, clinical dosing, Management reporting.
• Aggregate - Rotary kiln control, dispatch, production monitor, statistical analysis and reporting, batch control.
• Steel - CNC control, Automatic I beam drilling, stirrup bending, cropping, profile cutting.
  

Rockwell Automation Technology Experience

• Allen Bradley PLC5xx, PLC2xx, SLC5xx, PLC software engineering
• Rockwell Software Engineering
• High level programming
• Assembler programming
• Data Base programming
• DeviceNet product development, manufacture and installation
• Serial Communication Protocols
• Modem Technology
• Neural Technology (DH+, DeviceNet, ControlNet, EtherNet, Remote I/O, Modbus, RS422)
• Positional control
• SCADA / HMI development and implementation (Smart Controls, RSView, Intouch, Fix, Panelview, Interact etc.)
• Servo Technology
• Industrial control systems engineering
• Process control technology
• Microprocessor design and development
• Printed circuit board design, development, assembly and testing
• Production monitoring and statistical packages
• Research and development
  

Staffing Resources
TCS is committed to reviewing and developing staffing resource level to provide a level of service required to meet demands of their clients. TCS currently has 8 software engineers in-house with the following skill base

• Allen Bradley PLC programming
• SCADA / MMI development
• DeviceNet implementation
• DeviceNet development
• High level programming
• Microprocessor assembler programming
• Industrial electronic, PCB development
• Communications protocols
• RF electronic background
• Data base programming
• Mechanical engineer
• Registered electricians
• Limited registration
• NZCE graduates (Mechanical, Electrical & Electronic)
• Bachelor of Computing & Mathematical Sciences with honours
  

In addition to our own in house resources, TCS has access to other technically based companies such as Rockwell Automation GTS group, other Authorised Rockwell Automation System Integrators, ODVA Group.

Application Experience

• 12 Years of Industrial Control Systems Engineering
• Diverse number of industries
• Contracting both Overseas (Australia, USA, South America, Fiji, Asia, Europe) and Locally in New Zealand.
• Large industrial knowledge including Electrical Electronic Pneumatic, Hydraulic, Process, Mechanical, control application
• Extensive development of Communications Protocols
• PLC based control (small, medium & large)
• PC based control
• Microprocessor based control
• Data management systems.
• Project Management
• Consultancy
• Process control technology
• Motion Control