Prizm Technical Services

What we build

Control systems first, then everything we have learned to build around them: AI in the plant, websites for small businesses, one-to-one help for people with an idea, and products built with partners. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, working across the UK.

Plants thatrun themselves

A storage and retrieval shuttle carrying a pallet down a racking aisle in an automated warehouse

Automated warehouses are where our habits come from.

PLC software engineering

Structured, testable control software in Siemens TIA Portal for S7-1500 and S7-1200, including fail-safe applications. Written to be read: consistent structure, meaningful naming, and documentation that survives handover to the next engineer.

Typically includes

  • New-build application software
  • Fail-safe (F-system) applications
  • Standardisation and code libraries
  • Code review and rework
  • Simulation and offline testing

HMI and SCADA

Operator interfaces that reflect how the plant runs. Clear screens, honest alarms, and navigation an operator can learn in a shift, built in SIMATIC WinCC.

Typically includes

  • Panel and PC-based WinCC applications
  • Alarm philosophy and rationalisation
  • Screen standards and templates
  • Access levels and user management
  • Migration of ageing HMI applications

Commissioning and site services

FAT, SAT and go-live, run with discipline. I/O checkout that is complete, changes recorded as they happen, and a structured handover at the end, plus cover when production can't stop.

Typically includes

  • FAT and SAT execution
  • I/O checkout and loop testing
  • Go-live and ramp-up support
  • Shutdown and changeover cover
  • Site records and structured handover

Material handling and logistics

Our background is high-throughput sortation, conveying and warehouse automation: systems where seconds matter and edge cases arrive by the thousand. We write control that keeps product moving.

Typically includes

  • Sortation and conveyor control
  • Merge, divert and tracking logic
  • Throughput analysis and tuning
  • WMS and WCS interface integration
  • Emulation and virtual commissioning support

Upgrades and migrations

Planned moves from legacy Simatic platforms to TIA Portal, sequenced around production. Obsolescence handled before it bites, with rollback points.

Typically includes

  • S7-300 and S7-400 to S7-1500 migrations
  • Classic STEP 7 to TIA Portal conversions
  • Hardware obsolescence surveys
  • Phased cutover planning
  • Post-migration verification

Ongoing support

Remote and on-site support for installed systems: fault-finding, modifications and agreed response. Small changes handled properly: tested, documented and version controlled.

Typically includes

  • Remote diagnostics and fault-finding
  • Modifications and enhancements
  • Agreed response arrangements
  • Documentation and backup discipline

Engineering tooling and software

We treat our own discipline as something to automate. Alongside project delivery we build software tools, for ourselves and for clients, that take friction out of controls engineering: consistency checks, bulk engineering-data handling, and utilities that make large TIA Portal projects navigable.

Typically includes

Training

We teach what we do. For teams, we run structured sessions: TIA Portal practice, fault-finding and commissioning discipline, shaped around your plant.

Typically includes

  • Introductory PLC programming for apprentices and electricians
  • TIA Portal upskilling for controls teams

AI in the plant

Machine vision checks, anomaly detection on process data, and assistants that help operators and maintenance find what they need. Built with the same discipline as the control system, and kept inside your network. We start with one line and one measurable problem.

Typically includes

  • Vision checks on the line
  • Anomaly detection on PLC and process data
  • Assistants for operators and maintenance
  • Reports written from plant data
  • A pilot scoped to one line first

AI websites for small business

A clean, fast website built with AI tooling in days, for trades, workshops, consultancies and shops that need to be found and emailed. Written for search, hosted simply, and no tracking unless you ask for it.

Typically includes

  • Design and copy
  • Domain and hosting set up
  • Search basics done properly
  • Email contact, no forms
  • Updates when you need them

One-to-one consultation

For anyone with an idea they would like to build but no way to build it yet. A session with an engineer who builds things: what it would take, what it would cost, and whether it is worth it. You leave with a plan you can act on, whether or not you build it with us.

Typically includes

  • A session in person or online
  • A written plan
  • An honest build estimate
  • What to build first
  • Follow-up by email

Build and partner

You have the customers; we have the engineers. We build the product, you sell and integrate it, and we take a small percentage agreed up front. Your brand or ours, documented and supported like everything else we ship.

Typically includes

  • Product scoping and build
  • Documentation and support
  • A revenue share agreed up front
  • Your brand or ours
  • Regular releases

Not sure which of these you need?

Describe the plant and the problem. We'll tell you honestly what's involved, and what isn't. sales@prizm-technical.co.uk