Abacus Automation celebrates 10 years in the automation industry this year, having been established in 1995. With a collective 80 years experience in the industry and highly qualified personnel, it has established itself as a leading industrial automation solution provider. Experience and solutions span many industries with notable achievements in chemical reactor plants, robotic palletising, GPRS telemetry systems and OEM solutions.
Abacus Automation is a gold status value added reseller and system integrator for Siemens Automation and Drives. This partnership is eight years old and has seen this system integrator working very closely with Siemens locally and abroad to develop solutions for Siemens and its customers. Siemens Germany having purchased the IP to the GPRS telemetry solution developed by Abacus and have incorporated it as a standard Siemens product.
Award winning innovation has become its trademark and is a testament to the 10 engineers who are encouraged to be innovative in providing cost effective solutions with high performance. These engineers are supported by an infrastructure of technical sales, admin and management staff to provide a complete professional team.
From its three branches in Durban, Midrand and Richards Bay, Abacus Automation is able to offer turnkey solutions involving IT/scada, PLC, drives and instrumentation. The company is able to consult, provide and service solutions from the instrument level through to the IT level.
In 2002, Abacus Automation became a BEE company through a buy in by local investors. PDIs form part of its management team. Abacus is currently formulating a skills transfer programme in which it intends to train and identify PDIs with potential at a technical level.
For more information contact Warren Scott, Abacus Automation, 031 702 5767, [email protected]
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