Are You In Control?

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Improving Performance, Minimizing Risk

From project assessment to control system design to current Good Manufacturing Practices, Banks Integration Group’s cross-disciplined team delivers the agility and expertise needed to meet evolving production needs. We partner with best-in-class hardware and software vendors to provide you with reliable and flexible solutions that meet your specifications, schedules, and budgets.

Product Expertise

The Banks team chooses the right products to deliver the control system that best meets your application needs.

• Batch applications (ISA S88.01)
• 21 CFR Part 11 applications
• PLC systems: Allen-Bradley, GE Fanuc, Modicon, Siemens
• Human Machine Interface (HMI) and/or SCADA Systems and graphical software: Rockwell Software, GE Fanuc (Intellution) Wonderware, Citect
• Machine Vision (Cognex)
• Material Handling
• PC-based control systems: Entivity Think and Do, Visual Basic, SQL
• Data Historian
• Custom reports: Crystal Reports, SQL, MS Access, Visual Basic

Control System Validation

The Banks Integration Group has extensive experience developing and implementing control systems with the appropriate level of documentation required to meet pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device industry regulations, including 21 CFP Part 11.

• Biotech: Fermentation, recovery systems, waste systems, autoclaves, lyophilizers, HTST, buffer systems, process tanks, SCADA systems.
• Pharmaceuticals: Coaters, mixing tanks, laser drilling, granulators, table presses, mills, blenders, transdermal pouch assemblies
• Utilities: PW and WFI water systems, CIP, distribution systems, HVAC systems, Building Monitoring Systems (BMS), Environmental Monitoring
• 21 CFR Part 11
• Historian and Reporting packages

Engineering Services

From system design to startup and commissioning, the Banks Integration team provides the engineering expertise you need to meet your project’s technical specifications and budget.

• Specifications: URS, FRS, FS, SDS, HDS
• Control system design
• Process controls: Continuous and batch (S-88)
• Software development: PLC/DCS/HMI/PC/Custom
• Database programming and reporting
• Safety circuit design: Categories 3 and 4
• Electrical design
• Instrumentation
• Documentation
• Fabrication
• Networking and data communications
• Project management
• Turnkey project implementation
• Staging and simulation
• Startup and commissioning
• Training
• Validation: Equipment, computer and control system qualification

Networking

The Banks team has extensive experience with industrial networks and can interconnect all devices so that plant data travels seamlessly between systems.