Hal Software

The overriding company goal at HAL Software is to enable their clients to save up to 30% of their Automation Software development costs and to reduce Automation Project execution times by tackling the inefficiencies at each stage of Design / Configuration / Testing. They aim to help Manufacturing Companies concentrate on what matters; getting their data model right early and then concentrating on the automating of the industrial process. Not the hardware nor the quirks of disparate proprietary systems that lead to problematic software integration. In computing acronyms, HAL stands for ‘Hardware Abstraction Layer’, and that is a large part of what HAL Software products aim to provide. They allow industrial control programmers or process engineers to write hardware-independent industrial automation design specifications. These applications provide the encapsulation of industrial control industry standard templates within a data model that is aligned with modern agile software development programming techniques. The ultimate product goal is to provide an abstract control system (Virtual Control System) that may be compiled for any target platform that supports the appropriate standards (For eg. PLCOpen). This is a concept embedded within modern day Industrial Internet or Enterprise IoT (Internet of things) trends. They are experts in OPC UA Client/Server technology, Automation and control design patterns, Cloud based IT architecture and its application to distribute secure, Internet-based SCADA Solutions. They can provide consultancy for bespoke OPC UA solutions if required. In addition they run platform agnostic Industrial Automation training courses, from their Offices in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin. The courses deep dive into ISA-S88 & ISA-S95 implementation, and specific unit operations programming (for e.g Fermentation). The courses wont tell you how to program a PID controller block from scratch, but rather where and when to use the controller instances to control for e.g. the temperature of a jacketed vessel.

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