GCG projects
Projects and engineering experience.
CONNECT! in use and project experience with control software and commissioning for machinery and production lines.
Connect! on a Thermal Mechanical Separator: Everox
Business outcomeMachine monitoring through CONNECT! for an installation processing concrete waste.
First Connect! deployment, on an installation processing concrete waste.
Customer: Everox
Connect! V2 on a carbonator: Everox
Business outcomeMonitoring available for the CO₂-reduced cement replacement production line.
Monitoring for a CO₂-reduced cement replacement production line.
Customer: Everox
Connect! remote monitoring 2,000 km away: Everox, Ukraine
Business outcomeMachine data available remotely, approximately 2,000 km from the installation.
Real-time sensor data from a machine 2,000 km away, managed remotely through Connect!.
Customer: Everox
Selected work
Circular Concrete Machine.
Collecting PLC data and transmitting it over 4G and VPN to central storage and dashboards. GCG delivered the data connection, installation and on-site testing.
Business outcomeMachine data available for analysis and remote monitoring without a fixed internet connection on site.
GCG · CONNECT!
Our engineers’ work
From sensor readings to operator information.
Lucas delivered a PLC/HMI system for measuring pleat height and pack width. Measurement processing, limit monitoring and calibration turn sensor data into useful information at the machine.
A digital request identifies the right compartment.
Nick wrote an RS485 driver for a Pick-by-Light system. The communication connects a request from an application or database to the hardware indicating the storage location.
Products & development
CONNECT!
GCG develops CONNECT! for machine monitoring, data storage and dashboards. John works on the frontend and UI, Brayn on the backend and database. The product page also shows our own CONNECT! MARINE sailing simulator.
Experience in real projects.
Approx. 2,000 km
GCG · CONNECT! remote monitoring for Everox in Ukraine.
4 machines
Raymond’s engineering experience · Control design and software for four DeRaKo machines.
18 CPU · 11 HMI
Raymond’s engineering experience · German pipe-coating plant with over 400 PROFINET devices.
Engineering experience · Machine building
Four special-purpose production machines for DeRaKo.
Raymond designed the controls and wrote the software. DeRaKo, Blom Opmeer and NewIO handled the concept, mechanics, EPLAN and panel building.
Business outcomeFour special-purpose machines equipped with control software for grill ceiling production.
Engineering experience
Engineering experience behind GCG
Practical experience with machine controls, production lines and commissioning. Selected projects Raymond worked on.
Bakery lines: control, motion and retrofit
Business outcomeRecipe-based line operation and automated cone winding for bakery production.
Raymond programmed bakery-line controls with B&R PLC/HMI, ACOPOS servo drives, POWERLINK and recipe-based line operation. The line 2 retrofit included preparation, testing and commissioning. Line 6 added automated cone winding.
Line 6: automated cone winding with 13 synchronised servo axes.
Getting a quilting machine working again
Business outcomeThe existing mechanical machine and pattern files remained usable after the control retrofit.
Raymond designed the control retrofit of a water-damaged quilting machine. The solution combined two servo axes, B&R PowerPanel, ACOPOS and POWERLINK. Custom software converted existing pattern files, retaining the mechanical machine with renewed operator control.
Two servo axes and conversion of existing pattern files; the mechanical machine was retained.
127M sailing yacht: controls and commissioning
Business outcomeIntegrated controls with onboard commissioning and trials.
Raymond worked on automation for a 127M sailing yacht. His scope included B&R control, redundant fibre-optic I/O, OPC UA and Modbus integration, and onboard commissioning and trials.
Control integration and onboard trials for a 127-metre sailing yacht.
International plant automation and start-up
Business outcomePipe-coating installations supported through commissioning, production start-up and aftercare.
Raymond delivered electrical and PLC engineering for pipe-coating plants in Finland and Germany, including commissioning, start-up and aftercare. The documented German Siemens environment included 18 CPUs, 11 HMIs and over 400 PROFINET devices.
German installation: 18 CPUs, 11 HMIs and over 400 PROFINET devices.
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