Oil & Gas
Houston, Texas
PI System support across a client base concentrated in Houston, with more than 150,000 historized tags under our care.
Automations
& Controls
Good control strategy beats more expensive instrumentation.
Control panels, PLC and SCADA integration, instrumentation and commissioning. Lakewood Ranch, Florida — in the field since 2000.
Industrial automation integration
Federal contractor · UEI XUZ4WKEZLS67
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What we actually do
We build the control system and hand you the plant that runs it — panel, code, network, and drawings that match the wall.
i3 Automations & Controls has been integrating industrial control systems since 2000. Control panels, PLC and SCADA programming, instrumentation, commissioning. Oil and gas in Houston, water and wastewater across Florida, automotive body shops, paper mills, and utility-scale solar.
We are a registered federal contractor, certified on Ignition, VTScada and Canary. The work is the same either way: understand the process, choose the strategy that fits it, and leave behind a system the plant staff can run without calling us.
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WATER · WASTEWATER · PANEL SHOP · SUPERVISION
- 279+
- automation projects delivered worldwide
- 158+
- of them in the United States
- 78+
- in Florida alone
- 150,000+
- tags historized in AVEVA PI System
- 2000
- the year we started, and we have not stopped
Capabilities
Eight disciplines,
one contractor
Most plants end up coordinating a panel shop, a programmer, an instrument tech and a commissioning crew — and owning every gap between them. We carry all four, which is why the drawings match the code and the code matches what is wired.
All capabilities01
Control Panels
UL-compliant enclosures built, wired and tested before they ship. You get the panel, the schematics and the bill of materials — not a black box.
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PLC Programming
Rockwell, Siemens and Schneider. We write to your standard when you have one, and we document the one we write when you do not.
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SCADA Programming
Ignition, VTScada and Canary. Screens an operator can read at 3 a.m., alarms that mean something, and history that survives an audit.
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Commissioning
Loop checks, I/O verification, startup and operator training. The plant runs before we leave, and the as-built drawings match what is on the wall.
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Instrumentation
Specification, installation and calibration. Good control strategy usually beats a more expensive transmitter, and we will tell you which one you need.
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Industrial Networks
EtherNet/IP, Modbus, PROFINET and OPC UA. The layer where control meets IT, segmented so a plant floor problem stays on the plant floor.
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Motor Controls
MCC design, VFD configuration and starter logic, from a single skid to a full lineup.
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Software Development
Reporting, SQL integration and the tools around the control system — daily reports pulled from the database, alerts routed to the operator on shift.
From strategy to startup
The panel leaves our shop already tested
Platforms we run
The stack the
process needs
We are certified on three SCADA platforms and fluent on three PLC families. Which one a project uses is a decision about the process, the plant's existing standard, and who has to maintain it after we leave — never about what we would rather write.
Rockwell Automation
Studio 5000 · FactoryTalk
Siemens
TIA Portal · WinCC
Schneider Electric
EcoStruxure · Unity
Ignition
Certified integratorCERTIFIED
VTScada
Certified integratorCERTIFIED
Canary Labs
Certified integratorCERTIFIED
AVEVA PI System
150,000+ historized tags
SQL Server
Reporting and historian integration
How a plant reaches the control room
Every asset,
one supervision layer
This is the topology behind every project on this page: field assets on the outside, a supervision layer in the middle, and a documented path between them. Drag to walk around it; the pointer lights what it crosses.
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Control room · SCADAOil & GasWater AutomotivePaperSolarMCC
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Industries served
Where our
controls run
Five sectors, one discipline. What changes between a refinery and a body shop is the process and the consequence of getting it wrong — not the rigor the control system deserves.
Water & Wastewater
Florida
Annual controls support, PLC and HMI programming, full SCADA integration and daily reports pulled straight from the SQL database.
Automotive
Body shop lines
Daimler (Mercedes-Benz) New Body Shop to the Integra PLC standard, and BMW F15/F16/F25/F26 Body Shop SSB to theirs.
Paper Mills
Process controls
Machine controls and drive coordination, where a lost second of tension is a lost roll.
Solar & Renewables
Utility scale
Plant controls and monitoring for solar generation across the U.S., including work delivered under government contract.
Why the call is worth making
Senior control experts know things they do not teach in school.
Talk to an engineer
Tell us what the
process has to do
Send the scope, the P&ID, or just the problem. You will get an engineer on the reply, not a form letter — and if the answer is that you do not need us, we will say that too.
Contact usWhere we are
Lakewood Ranch, FL
Oil & Gas operation in Houston, TX