SAGE is a trusted adviser to many leading brands in a wide range of industries.

By providing world class Industrial Automation and Control System engineering, we ensure you will get the best outcomes from your project in effectiveness, safety and return on investment as well as the integration of cutting edge technology and design into your business.

Our national team of more than 100 Engineers work across sector and geographical borders to provide a truly broad and scalable resource. We have delivered extraordinary customer outcomes by mobilising large teams to deliver certainty.

Our projects are delivered using the global System Development Lifecycle methodology which focuses on the crucial elements of ongoing review and validation. 

What does that mean for our customers?

• Any changes made during the project will be successfully implemented and documented
• Continuous review and validation ensures your solution will work seamlessly 
• Working with our team who value continuous improvement as much as you do
• Continuous validation of outcomes against requirements 

 

Design

From conceptual design of your Industrial Control System solution through to a fully documented functional design, SAGE provides you with clarity.

SAGE maximises the value of your assets by implementing best practice front end engineering design principles. We have a country-wide pool of Principal Engineers who have cross-discipline skills and experience to design the best solution for your business.

During the design and development phase of your solution, SAGE undertakes a highly interactive phase with extensive input from our customers. This ensures the end result meets or exceeds operational and functional requirements and expectations.

Our design engineers provide a variety of services to complement SAGE’s engineering capabilities, improve technical implementation and enhance our customers’ businesses including:

• Energy Efficiency
• Alarm Management
• Independent reviews and benchmarking
• Risk management
• Strategic consulting
• Change management

 

CAD Drafting

SAGE uses the latest CAD software packages including Autocad, Promise-e and microstation to provide accurate electrical drawings of your project which are easily modified to reflect its evolution and to incorporate ongoing improvements.

These living drawings:

• Are the foundation for a successful project
• Provide an essential link to the manufacturing process
• Support field commissioning
• Form final electrical documentation

As well as incorporating other drafting disciplines such as mechanical, civil and electronic, SAGE provides industrial drafting solutions including:

• Electrical Schematics
• Safety Control Circuits
• Network Overviews
• PLC I/O connection diagrams
• Cabinet general arrangement diagrams
• Field cable termination schedules
• Single line power distribution diagrams
• Cable block diagrams
• Cable schedules
• Terminal strip layouts
• Bill of materials (BOM)
• Reverse engineering

Industrial Control

Industrial Control is central to everything we do.  We provide process improvement, electrical design, system integration, electrical, mechanical and safety engineering and ongoing service support and training.

Our capabilities extend across:

• SCADA
• Telemetry
• Networks
• PLC
• HMI
• Robotics
• Vision
• Motion
• Safety
• Hazardous areas

SAGE is an accredited system integration partner with Rockwell, Schneider, Siemans, GE Fanuc and other technology vendors, giving you certainty and peace of mind in our proven capabilities with products from these leading suppliers. Learn more about our technology community here

PLC / SCADA

At the very core of our capability, SAGE delivers industrial control solutions integrating all HMI (Human Machine Interface), PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) platforms. 

From operational updates and technology upgrades through to the design and development of an entirely new solution, SAGE can work with your preferred HMI/PLC/SCADA control system or provide our expert recommendation, using the latest software and hardware from the world’s leading brands, including:

• Allen Bradley (PLC & HMI)
• Siemens (PLC & HMI)
• Schneider (PLC,RTU, HMI, SCADA & Radio)
• GE Fanuc (PLC & HMI)
• Pilz (Safety PLC)
• Hirschmann (Network)
• Cisco (Network)
• Moxa (Network)
• Alvarion (WIMAX Radio)
• Dell and Hewlett Packard (computer and servers)
• Elpro (RTU and radio)
• Miri (RTU and Radio)
• CSE Semaphore (RTU and Radio)

Safety

Safety standards are evolving at a rapid rate as industrial machines, plants and equipment become increasingly complex. 

Reduce your risk by ensuring the safety of your people, compliance of your plant and protection of your assets with our team of Engineers certified by TUV as Functional Safety Engineers for Safety Instrumented Systems.

SAGE has a powerful knowledge management culture which fosters close and constant monitoring of emerging new technologies and applications for safety systems. 

In accordance with Safety and Environmental regulations, SAGE conducts comprehensive risk assessments and implements an integrated safety related control system to ensure full compliance with current Australian machine safety standards (AS61508 functional safety and AS4024 machine safety).

When implementing safety systems, SAGE produces a suite of design and test documentation to ensure traceability of safety requirements from risk assessment through to final Site Acceptance Testing (SAT).  This structured approach to safety, including consultation with relevant site personnel throughout the process, creates a compliant safety system to safeguard personnel while complementing the production process.

At the cutting edge of standards and technology, SAGE’s TUV certified safety engineers create safe and compliant working environments every day across a broad range of industries.

Outcomes include: 

• Hazard identification and risk assessment for new and existing plants
• On-site auditing of safety systems
• Technical guidance and advice on safety related issues
• Risk control assessment
• Requirement Class (RC)Safety Integrity Level (SIL) classification
• Functional specification
• Safety compliant solution design
• Performance validation
• Safety training
• Independent safety system verification
• Press audits and recommendations to meet industry specific accreditation
• Rigorous simulated testing and documentation

Projects that demonstrate SAGE’s capabilities, expertise and commitment to safety include:

• Provision of consulting services for the implementation of SIL rated safety systems on large infrastructure projects including the Port River Expressway, Tugan Tunnel and Australian Synchrotron project.
• Provision of extensive safety support including risk assessment, auditing and training of personnel for the Fosters group of companies.
• Facilitating hazard identification and risk assessment for the Bridgestone No.3 Banbury safety upgrade.
• Facilitating hazard identification and risk assessment for the ETSA pole manufacturing plant safety upgrade.

SAGE has extensive project experience for various customers including Holden, Bridgestone and SA Brewing in a wide range of industries from automotive to packaging.

When a project specification calls for dynamic performance, speed, precision, flexibility and increased productivity, SAGE has the expertise to deliver certainty.

Vision

Solve your quality and inspection challenges with SAGE vision solutions, delivering complex vision projects to help you stay ahead.

With talented in-house vision specialists and scalable resource teams, SAGE is also supported by strong relationships with the world’s leading vision technology providers to deliver exceptional customer outcomes.

Our vision capabilities include:

• Object identification, verification, gauging and 3D profiling
• Creation of high speed and high quality outcomes
• Process improvement and error proofing
• Product tracking to obtain accurate distance and orientation data
• Character recognition and colour analysis
• Barcode and 2D matrix code reading
• Integrating elements that are not exact
• 3D vision solutions to calculate volume and surface for quality control
• Retrofits to integrate advanced vision systems into existing assets

SAGE's innovative vision system developed for Perryman's Bakery to identify the orientation of randomly placed gingerbread men on baking trays enabled the precise application of the iced eyes, nose and belly button. It was named in the Top 20 SA Innovations since the new millennium.  Read about this iconic project here.

Hazardous Areas

SAGE has a highly trained team of certified design engineers with broad experience across hazardous area scenarios and strong national partnerships with Certified Hazardous Area inspection and installation teams.

Our supplier relationships provide access to the latest IECEx certified materials to tackle a wide range of challenging situations. (IECEx is the IEC system for the certification to standards for electrical equipment for explosive atmospheres)

We have extensive project experience in the design, installation and certification of hazardous area jobs, including grain transport and storage and defence projects, including the handling of flares and Explosive Ordnance.

Our Hazardous area capability includes:

• Hazardous Area Classification dossier creation as required by AS/NZS 60079.14 (Explosive atmospheres – electrical installations design, selection and erection)
• Classification of zones for gases, vapours and dust
• Hardware design and selection
• Construction
• Installation
• Certification on both new projects and upgrades
• Integration of machine safety and functional safety into hazardous areas