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Welcome to SDSS

psheppard@sdss.co.uk (Administrator) — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:00:00 +0000

SDSS are a dynamic forward looking company, providing our clients exceptional project delivery (Quality, Time and Cost)!. We are an outstanding control systems integrator, and consulting company, covering the entire automation and MES segments from machinery control system design and advanced control, SCADA & HMI and high level IT MES, ERP systems together with supporting hardware. We believe in providing the best total solution for our clients and are committed to supporting our clients in the delivery of projects and long term system support.

SDSS provide documentary evidence of compliance for all our automation, hardware and software systems for many sectors of regulated industries. A full vertical slice of software and hardware from the machinery on the plant floor to high level planning, manufacturing and scheduling systems can be provided. All systems are specified to ensure as much compatibility as possible with current and future control systems, this is obtained using open standard interfaces where possible.

We provide and implement frameworks which assist you in making and implementing the correct solutions for your business.

SDSS completes project for GlaxoSmithKline (Harlow)

philip.sheppard@sdss.co.uk (Philip Sheppard) — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 09:54:06 +0000

SD System Solutions are please to announce the successful completion of a large automation project at GlaxoSmithKline, Harlow, Essex

After several years of intense work in partnership with Integrity Solutions and Distinct Software Solutions the first large phase of the automation project has been completed.

The project consists of one Enterprise Manufacturing Suite (Aspentech) which has links to the Environmental Monitoring(EMS) and Batch Data(Batch) collection SCADA systems. There are four SCADA servers which are linked via a redundant fibre optic industrial Ethernet ring too four Siemens S7-400's (416 & 417) PLC's. These are in turn linked to approximately ten EMS outstations and fifty machines used for batch Pharmaceutical production. Approximately thirty PCS7 clients have been deployed, these have access to the EMS SCADA server for the resetting of alarms and beacons on the EMS, and access to the Batch SCADA system for collection and processing of data from the fifty machines connected to the batch system. The other two SCADA servers consist of a development system and engineering system used for the testing and deployment of new machine additions respectively. The development and engineering SCADA servers also act as backup servers for the primary servers and can be used at any time. Switch over to the backup systems can be completed within an hour (11 seconds if the PCS7 project is already running on either of the backup servers).

The system is design to be expanded to allow real-time control and electronic product release as well as the additional of finite scheduling facilies in the future

Currently SD System Solutions is completing similar projects on a further five GlaxoSmithKline sites.

SDSS completes project for BovisLend Lease (Ware)

philip.sheppard@sdss.co.uk (Philip Sheppard) — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 12:00:00 +0000

SD System Solutions have successfully completed a project to add a further nine flexible rooms to the Batch System at GlaxoSmithKline, Ware, Essex

SDSS completes Batch / EMS Split

psheppard@sdss.co.uk (Administrator) — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:27:49 +0000

SDSS have successfully completed a complex software split of two systems onto seperate systems with minimal impact to the production systems

SDSS Completes Homogeniser PLC refurbishment GSK CH

nick.drake@sdss.co.uk (Nick Drake) — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:28:46 +0000

SD System Solutions have successfully completed the PLC upgrade from various Siemens S5 models to Siemens S7-3162DP for two homogeniser blenders complete with mobile CIP unit. The upgrade included the following

Replacement of Lauer Panels to Simatic HMI WinCC flexible nodes
Addition of semi-automated batching phases
Addition of automated CIP process.
Addition of new Vacuum Control
Automated material addition under vacuum
Connection of the blender data to Aspentech InfoPlus.21 and Batch.21 for long term data storage.

During the upgrade one of the blenders underwent a site relocation.