Networking | Data Analytics | Cybersecuity
Your Safety. Our Focus.
Fortinet Network Security Partnership Announced
Huffman Engineering, Inc. adds Fortinet Network Security to growing list of partnerships. Huffman Engineering believes strongly in continuing education and professional development to ensure their engineers and technicians are at […]
Ready to Move: Implement Countermeasures/ Document and Train on Safeguards
We’ve taken a look at potential cyber security threats, “Proactive Approach to Cyber-Security Could Avert Disastrous Shutdowns,” establishing a risk assessment within your organization, “Cyber Security: What’s Your Risk Tolerance?” […]

IT | OT Convergence
Our network specialists and engineers are experienced in systemwide network assessment, design and implementation including separation of existing networks and implementation of hardware and software upgrades across multiple platforms. We often bridge the gap between IT and OT departments to design and develop a customized efficient and secure system to provide a foundation for the future.

Cybersecurity
With an eye to always making you as safe as possible, we design systems with the latest cybersecurity concepts. We also recognize that no one is ever 100% protected in a climate of complex systems, so in the event that you have a need, we have the expertise and experience to get you back up and running.

Data Analytics & Reporting
Decades of experience retrieving and storing data securely and presenting real-time analysis to make key, transformational business decisions every day. Our experienced engineers ensure data integrity in every system we design and guarantee you can unlock the details of that system to gain the most important insights from that data collection through historian, archiving data to store for your records.
MES
OT Network
System Upgrades & Migrations
Data Collection
Trained in utilizing manufacturing execution systems (MES) to connect enterprise systems to the plant floor. Tracking and documenting insights and the process transformation of raw materials into finished goods in real-time provides true business intelligence to move your business forward.

Plant Floor Integration: Leverage the expertise of Huffman engineers and computer science professionals to achieve a more efficient, connected, and responsive manufacturing operation, ultimately leading to improved productivity, better quality control, and enhanced decision-making
PAS-X: Our experience with PAS-X puts us ahead of the rest in terms of connecting MES with plant floor systems, such as PLCs, SCADA systems, and other process control systems. This integration ensures that data flows seamlessly, enabling real-time monitoring and control of production processes. PAS-X provides robust data management and analytics capabilities configuring PAS-X to collect, store, and analyze production data. We can set up dashboards and reporting tools to help you monitor performance, track key metrics, and make data-driven decisions.
Weigh-Scale Integration: We have expertise in weigh scale integration as well with MES, a notable difference from other system integrators that can help our pharmaceutical and food and beverage customers with their MES applications.
Our engineers and networks specialists are trained in communicating across platforms. When you have multiple PLCs from different manufacturers across your systems and you need them to talk to one another, you need to bring in the experts to help you navigate the data exchange. Huffman Engineers are the ones to call to synthesize your systems and bring it all together.
Huffman Engineering is able to bring you this specialized expertise to the design, upgrade, and security of OT networks. Ensuring the infrastructure is efficient, scalable, secure, while minimizing risks, downtime, and operational costs is a step toward the future. The ability to design resilient, secure, and flexible OT systems is critical in today’s increasingly connected and digitized industrial environments.

Design: Our OT network designs are optimized for performance, redundancy and resilience keeping in mind the rapid growth that can happen with any system these days and allowing for scalability in the future.
Upgrades: OT environments often rely on older systems that may not easily integrate with modern technology. We have experience with both old and new systems so we design networks that can bridge legacy systems with newer solutions, making it easier to upgrade and incorporate innovative technologies.
Security: A fundamental aspect of OT security is the segmentation of critical systems from less critical parts of the network. Our systems are designed networks with appropriate segmentation, ensuring that vulnerabilities in one area do not compromise the entire network.
We can help you do an analysis on existing automation systems no matter how large or small, how new or old. Then our experts can help navigate upgrading firmware on PLCs and modernizing software to the most recent versions to make sure you’re running the most efficient and lean processes you deserve.

System Inventory Analysis: Often our engineers start with an analysis of what exactly you have in your existing system allowing them to examine where they might help you find efficiencies and both physical and cyber safety upgrades
Legacy Equipment Upgrades: We often incorporate advanced technologies, automation & streamlined processes for operational efficiency, enhance reliability and predictive maintenance capabilities saving both time and money, modernize equipment designed with energy efficient standards leads to long-term savings and ensure compliance with updated regulations and standards
Software Conversions: Occasionally a corporation decides to go another direction with software or spins off a company to a subsidiary or another company entirely and requires a conversion of sorts. That can require astute attention to network conversion. We’ve done this with our customers and we can help you navigate the transition.
Asset Migration: We have experience migrating control and automation system assets from company A to company B in both existing and startup situations. these assets include everything from PLC’s to networked devices and instrumentation, automation servers, workstations and clients.
We can assist you with systemwide dashboards and reporting systems. These reports allow you insight into your business operations and can help you manage multiple site locations from secure and remote locations.

Historian: Our engineers are skilled in Historian and the design, set-up, configuration and implementation to enable you to track and catalog important data
Alarm Management & Notification: Our capabilities include alarm analysis and consolidation to make sure the alarm notifications your team is seeing and hearing are meaningful to the efficient operations of your plant and are presented in a way that is helpful to operational effectiveness and predictive maintenance
Reporting: Our team will assist you in building out Microsoft Reporting Services and the development of dashboards to provide you with the business intelligence to make wise decisions for your future
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Jim Fricke, PE
Senior Electrical Engineer
Did you know?
Jim coached youth baseball for many years and now shifted focus to football & cheering on the Kansas City Chiefs.
