GENERAL INFORMATION
NPE Kulplan Oy and NPE Kulconsult Oy are specialists in automation design, serving clients primarily in the fields of process and plant automation. We also provide electrical design services to our customers.
PERFORMED ACTIVITIES
Preliminary Studies and Planning
- Technical studies and surveys
- Cost estimates
- Schedules
Implementation Planning – Basic Engineering
- Functional analyses and descriptions
- Scope definitions
- Preparation of request-for-quotation materials and offer comparisons
- Other essential data for detailed planning
Implementation Planning – Detailed Engineering
- Automation systems
- Logic controllers and control room programs
- Field engineering for automation (equipment, cabling, bus systems)
- Field engineering for electrification
- Electrical switchgear design
Testing and Commissioning
- Application software testing (own/FAT)
- Hardware testing
- Commissioning of hardware and software at the mill
OPERATING ENVIRONMENTS
Below are the facility environments where we have accumulated references so far:
Pulp and Paper Industry
- Pulp Mills
- Fiber lines
- Chemical recovery lines
- Mechanical pulp plants
- Grinders and pressure grinders
- Thermo mechanical pulping plants (TMP, CTMP)
- Steam production plants
- Bark, oil, coal, gas, and electric boilers
- Coating kitchens and chemical plants
- Deinking plants
- Paper Mills
- Pulping sections
- Paper machines
- Coating machines
- Finishing sections
- Board Mills
- Paper and Board Processing Plants
- Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants
Mechanical Wood Industry
- Panel industry
- Sawmills
- Others
Chemical Industry
- Fertilizer plants
- Paint factories
- Vinyl acetate plants
- Viscose fiber plants
- Others
Petrochemical Plants
- Plastic factories
- Oil refineries
- Oil terminals
- Others
Food Industry
- Coffee roasteries
- Bakeries
- Sausage casing factories
- Dairies
- Breweries
- Feed mills
- Sugar factories
- Distilleries
- Others
Power Plants
- Boiler plants
- Hydropower plants
- Nuclear power plants
- Solar power plants
- Wind power plants
Water, Wastewater, and Waste Treatment Plants
- Wastewater treatment plants (conventional and biological)
- Waste processing plants
- Hazardous waste facilities
- Water treatment plants
- Others
Metallurgical Industry
- Electrolysis plants
- Ferrochrome smelters
- Precious metal refining plants
- Precious metal enrichment plants
- Cathode packaging and transport systems
- Cobalt plants
- Copper smelters
- Nickel reduction plants
- Nickel smelters
- Enrichment plants
- Selenium recovery systems
- Zinc plants
- Steel mills
- Foundries
- Others
Other Facilities
- Automotive glass factories
- Car factories
- Bitumen plants
- Oxygen plants
- Cable machine factories
- Cable factories
- Gas pumping stations
- Printing houses
- Dry material plants
- Ships/shipyards
- Pharmaceutical factories
- Printing machines
- Silicon wafer factories
- Car tire factories
- Others
SYSTEMS AND TOOLS
Automation Systems
- Damatic Classic, XD, XDi, ValmetDNA, ValmetDNAe
- ABB Master, Advanced, Freelancer
- Honeywell Alcont
- Delta V
- Siemens PCS 7, Teleperm
Control Room Software
- InTouch
- WinCC
- FactoryLink
- Intellution Fix32, iFix
- RSView
- Sattgraph
- Genesis
- Citect
- Operate IT
- Valmet UI
PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers)
- Simatic S5 and S7
- Allen & Bradley
- GE Fanuc
- Modicon
- Omron
- SattCon
- Telemecanique
- Sixnet
- Klinkman / Unitronics (GSM-controller)
- Triconex – safety PLCs
Fieldbus Systems
- Profibus
- Modbus
- TCP/IP
- Interbus
- Foundation Fieldbus
- AS-i-bus
- CAN
Programming Languages
- Visual Basic
- C, C++, Visual C++
- Pascal
- Fortran
- Java
- SQL
Databases
- MS Access
- Paradox
- Oracle
- MS SQL Server
Modeling / Simulation
- Matlab
- Simulink
WORKING METHODS
Standalone Projects
We participate in automation projects for clients or handle the automation part of their overall projects by performing the necessary engineering.
Engineering Services
Engineering work is carried out at the client’s premises. This approach is often necessary or even essential when the entire project team needs to be in the same location.
If changes are required in an existing factory system, these modifications must naturally be made on-site at some stage.
Turnkey Projects
We take part in executing the automation and electrical sections of full-scale projects.
Either of the NPE companies can undertake turnkey project contracts.
Comprehensive projects may involve all design areas, including process, plant, mechanical, equipment, automation, electrical, and software engineering, utilizing all available resources of the NPE companies.
PERSONNEL
Our staff consists of skilled professionals with industry-specific education. Some have extensive experience and expertise in both older and modern technologies.
They have a broad understanding of various process measurement and control requirements, enabling them to create control method descriptions, specifications, and equipment definitions.
Additionally, our team includes younger professionals with modern education who, together with experienced colleagues, form highly efficient workgroups.
REFERENCE PROJECTS
NPE has been involved in various industrial automation projects since 1980.
We have opened more than 7,000 project numbers across different mill environments.
The ”Operating Environments” section describes the industries and facilities where we have participated in projects.
Our reference projects vary in scale from extremely large to very small—we are open to all types of projects.
A reference list is available upon request.
FUTURE OUTLOOK
The guiding principles of NPE companies are success and renewal—these words will continue to define our operations in the future.
We continuously strive to improve our services to ensure successful investments for our customers.
Additionally, we stay up to date with the latest industry developments, allowing us to offer the most advanced, tested, and efficient solutions tailored to our clients’ needs.