Building Automation Control Systems

AC Corporation Controls Department provides complete design, installation, documentation, and maintenance services of Building Automation/Building Management Systems (BAS/BMS).  Our Tridium Control Systems are commonly used in commercial and industrial facilities for Web and PC based Control Systems.  Our knowledge and expertise will help you choose the best Tridium JACE Open Protocol BAS/BMS system for your facility.  Energy savings and comfort are realized with proper installation and programming.  While other brands do offer Tridium products, AC Corporation is capable of not only providing the Tridium Niagara Platform, but also total installation, service, and maintenance.  This includes the installation of conduits, wiring, terminations for our controls, control panel design & installation, end device and instrumentation installation.  We work directly with facility managers, engineers, and technicians to design custom control systems that are not proprietary.

Design and Software Services

• Design Direct Digital Control (DDC) systems to control temperature, relative humidity, pressurization and lighting in commercial buildings, clean rooms, pharmaceutical companies, manufacturing facilities.
  • Software control of Direct Expansion Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning (HVAC) and Exhaust systems
  • Software control of Chilled Water and Steam/Hot Water Boiler systems
  • Programmable Logic Control (PLC) and BAS control of Air Washers and Scrubbers including Dew Point Control
• Design Clean Room Control systems to control temperature, humidity (including dew point control), pressure, airlock functions, particle counting, historical data and trending functions
• Programming - Tridium Vykon N4 JACE
  • ABB Equipment Controllers (Non-Proprietary)
  • HMI Networking and Programming
  • Trending / Historical data graphically or charting
• Integrate Tridium Niagara Controls with most current control systems including Trane, Carrier, Allen Bradley, Johnson, Honeywell
• Color Graphics and Interface
• Web or PC based
• Provide Controls CAD drawings, submittal, product data and operation & maintenance manuals
• Customer training on navigating the control system
  • Monitoring
  • Trending
  • Parameter changes

Field  Services

• Instrumentation installation and set up
• Control panel installation
• Control’s conduit and wiring installation
• Wiring Terminations, wire labeling, Continuity/Loop check documentation
• Pneumatic controls installation, troubleshooting and service
  • Stainless Steel, copper, and poly/nylon tubing
• Customer Validation and/or Assistance
• Control System Commissioning and Start-up
• Instrumentation calibration and offset
• On-site and virtual troubleshooting and repairs
• Maintenance program
  • Weekly, monthly, quarterly,  semi-annual and yearly maintenance programs are offered based on the customer needs or wants. Maintenance programs include onsite and virtual services  

Consultation Services

• Research and analyze existing facility control systems for functionality and open protocol design
  • Provide solutions to on-going controls issues through Tridium software and hardware upgrades
  • Suggest mechanical upgrades such as Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) and economizer operation technologies that will help you save energy
• Provide a roadmap to future upgrades and changes required by changes in your facility mission
• Provide technical documentation and hardware / software data submittals upon request  

In addition to the BAS/BMS controls, we also provide control of industrial AC Corporation Built-Up Custom HVAC Units using Allen Bradley PLC.  The PLC is an industrial grade digital controller that is very robust and designed to provide control of industrial applications for manufacturing processes.  It is capable of high speed networking and operating in industrial environments.  The PLC can integrate with a Human/Machine Interface (HMI) panel, creating a compact, easy-to-use automation solution for programming.  These are extremely expensive and not practical for most HVAC control systems.  However, many of our customers use these on their process controls and insist we use them on their HVAC units since it will interface readily with their entire plant control system.