CerebraQ Automation is a SCADA development and integration company in Thane, India, engineering supervisory control and visualization systems for manufacturing plants, marine vessels, and industrial infrastructure. Our primary platform is ICONICS Genesis64, connected through Kepware OPC to multi-vendor PLC environments. This page covers the SCADA work we do and the engineering judgment behind it.
The range of SCADA we deliver
Plant-floor SCADA: line and machine visualization, production counters, downtime capture, and alarm management for discrete manufacturing — automotive, machinery, steel, FMCG. Vessel management systems: monitoring and alarm systems for marine platforms, engineered for connectivity-constrained environments where the system must run reliably offline and synchronize when a link exists. Utility and energy SCADA: energy metering, compressed air, and utility monitoring layered onto production systems, feeding energy-per-unit and carbon reporting. Remote telemetry: distributed-site monitoring — our dairy-sector work involves telemetry from rural sites into a central dashboard with alerting, an architecture that applies equally to water, power, and infrastructure networks.
Screen design is an engineering discipline, not decoration
An operator glances at a SCADA screen for two seconds between tasks. Our screens are designed for that reality: grey-background high-performance HMI principles where color means state — a screen that is calm when the line is healthy, and where the one amber tile is instantly findable. Andon boards get a different treatment from operator stations — large-format typography readable at 20 metres, information density tuned to what a passing supervisor needs. We prototype screens with the operators who will use them, before commissioning, because a screen that makes sense to the design engineer and not to the night-shift operator is a failed screen.
Alarms: fewer, better
Most plants we walk into have alarm systems that operators have learned to ignore — hundreds of standing alarms, priorities never set, the critical one buried. Our alarm engineering follows rationalization practice: every configured alarm has a defined operator action, priorities reflect consequence and time-to-respond, and nuisance alarms are eliminated at the source. AlarmWorX64 gives us the tooling; the value is in the discipline.
Architecture and reliability
A SCADA node that fails during production is worse than no SCADA, because the plant has built its workflow around it. We design for the line's actual downtime cost: redundant servers where minutes matter, store-and-forward where the network is the weak point, watchdogs on OPC connections so a stale value can never masquerade as a live one, and security hardening — HTTPS, role-based access, network segmentation guidance — as a default rather than an add-on.
Frequently asked
Do you only work with ICONICS Genesis64?
Genesis64 is our deepest expertise and default recommendation, but the architecture layer — Kepware OPC, SQL Server, reporting — is platform-agnostic, and we take on projects extending other SCADA platforms where the fit is right.
Can you take over a SCADA system another vendor built?
Yes — takeover and modernization work is a regular part of our practice: documentation recovery, tag database cleanup, screen redesign, and alarm rationalization on live systems, staged to avoid production interruption.
Do you handle the PLC side too?
We integrate with PLCs rather than writing primary machine control logic — but we routinely specify handshake structures for PLC programmers, and debug the PLC-to-SCADA boundary during commissioning, which is where most integration defects live.
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