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Palm oil · 2026

A palm oil mill's PLC program, rescued first

A Panasonic FP-X PLC runs the main processing machines at PKS Sei Silau, but its program had no backup. That was the first thing I fixed.

Client
PTPN IV · PKS Sei Silau
Year
2026
Location
Asahan, North Sumatra
My role
Engineer, hands-on
Delivered through
Firmansyah.co, as subcontractor to Mechmar

Layers worked on

  1. 01Field
  2. 02Logic
  3. 03Telemetry
  4. 04Screen

What we did

  1. 01PLC program extracted and stored as a verified offline backup.
  2. 02Digital and analog I/O mapping audited and tidied across processing stations.
  3. 03Emergency stop circuits and permissive interlocks standardized.
LocationAsahan, North Sumatra

The result

The PLC program is safely archived, the safety interlocks are checked, and the mill kept running throughout the work.