Electrical drawings, PLC automation, ABB drives and SICK safety for grain handling, export hay pressing, pellet mills and batching plants — designed by hands-on electricians, for electricians.
Our drawings are made by hands-on electricians who build, wire and commission these plants themselves. They're laid out the way work is done on site, so your electrical team can quote, build and fault-find from them with confidence.
Field junction box terminations
Safety gate wiring — SICK Flexlock
ABB ACS580 drive & fieldbus parameters
Extensive experience designing control rooms for agricultural sites, where dust, heat and long cable runs are part of the job.
Segregated power, control and network cabling, planned from the start, with room and panel cooling sized for drives and hot-climate summers.
Sealing and filtration to keep grain and feed dust out of electronics.
Flexi Soft is SICK's software-programmable, modular safety controller. Every E-stop, guard switch and safety device on the plant is wired into one safety CPU, with the safety logic configured, tested and documented in SICK's Flexi Soft Designer software.
The AS/NZS 4024.1 series is Australia's framework for designing and operating safe machinery. Its 26 parts adopt the international ISO and IEC machinery safety standards, with changes to suit Australian practice. Our safety designs follow three of its key parts:
Risk assessment and risk reduction (ISO 12100) — identify hazards first.
Safety-related parts of control systems (ISO 13849-1) — the required Performance Level for each function.
Interlocking devices on guards — selection and design of gate switches.
Ratings shown are for the Flexi Soft controller. The level each safety function achieves depends on the complete design, devices and validation.
We standardise on ABB's ACS variable speed drive range: the ACS580 general purpose drive (0.75–500 kW) for pumps, fans, conveyors and mills, and the ACS880 industrial drive where advanced drive-based safety is needed.
Our drives are controlled over a network, not dozens of control wires. Modbus RTU is built in, and plug-in adapters add Modbus TCP, EtherNet/IP or PROFINET.
The AutomationDirect BRX, running Do-more technology, is a compact PLC built for both simple and demanding applications. We program it in-house and pair it with Weintek touchscreen HMIs that operators find easy to use.
Do-more Designer ladder with strong maths, string and data handling for complex sequences and recipes.
Process control for temperature, pressure, flow and level, with built-in PID tuning views.
The built-in simulator lets us test the program in the office before it reaches your plant.
Production and event data logged to the on-board microSD card, plus trend views for troubleshooting.
Modbus TCP, EtherNet/IP, a built-in web server, REST API and email alerts on the same port.
Expansion and Ethernet remote I/O take a system past 4,000 discrete I/O points.
Drives, safety, operator screens and office monitoring all share one network, so faults show up in plain language wherever you are standing. The site PC holds backups of every PLC and HMI program and gives us remote access for upgrades and fault finding.
Complete control of grain movement from intake to silo to process — augers, bucket elevators, chain and belt conveyors started, routed and interlocked from one PLC.
PLC control of the hydraulic pressing cycle, from bale feed through to compression and ejection, with operator controls kept simple on the HMI.
Full mill control with ABB ACS drives on fieldbus, coordinating feeders, conditioner and mill motors from one PLC.
Recipes set up and selected at the HMI, with the PLC managing each ingredient and batch step so every batch comes out the same.
Working with our trusted supplier Thaie in China, Agtric manages the whole journey — from designing machinery to your requirements through to switching it on and commissioning it in your plant.
We help specify and design the machine around your product, capacity and site.
We manage the build directly with Thaie, keeping it on spec and on schedule.
Freight, import paperwork and customs clearance handled for you.
Placed, connected and wired into your plant.
Integrated with Agtric PLC control and commissioned until it's in production.
From first drawing to first production run.
We've worked alongside electricians, programmers and engineers on hundreds of projects. Bring us in for exactly the piece you need.
Plant design, electrical schematics and control room layouts, ready for your electrician to build.
BRX PLC and Weintek HMI programming and commissioning, supplied to your team.
Design, machinery, installation, control and commissioning — delivered start to finish.
Every Agtric PLC project includes a site PC with all PLC and HMI programs backed up, plus remote access. That means upgrades, fault finding and help, for the life of the machine.
From operating industrial systems to designing and installing them, we have the experience and know-how that agricultural plants demand.
Industrial automation, machinery & electrical solutions.
Based in Kununurra WA, with projects right across Australia.