Controls & automation support
Fault finding, modifications, commissioning assistance and support for industrial control systems, including Siemens S7/TIA environments and HMI/SCADA integration.
Industrial automation • DataMiner/SNMP • engineering software • accountancy data • AI-augmented engineering
JMTEQ provides practical engineering support across PLC, HMI, DataMiner/SNMP monitoring, database, reporting, integration, accountancy data consolidation and AI-augmented engineering work. The focus is simple: dependable control, transparent data and maintainable software for real operational environments.
Services
JMTEQ bridges the gap between shop-floor control systems and the data/reporting systems needed by engineering, quality and operations teams.
Fault finding, modifications, commissioning assistance and support for industrial control systems, including Siemens S7/TIA environments and HMI/SCADA integration.
VB.NET applications, SQL Server data stores, transaction logging, traceability, test-line data capture, reporting and controlled operator workflows.
Interfaces between control systems, MES, Oracle/SAP-style data sources and local applications, with attention to validation, retries, audit trails and recoverability.
DataMiner-facing monitoring solutions, SNMP aggregation, OID polling, driver output files, element/view generation, Visio mapping and operational support packs.
Data acquisition and diagnostics for live values such as load cells, Eurotherm controllers, Modbus devices, analogue tags, setpoints and process measurements.
Operational reports, production histories, test results, supervisor sign-off records, CSV exports, trend charts and data views that make plant behaviour visible.
Data manipulation, consolidation and reporting workflows for accountancy practices and finance teams pulling information from spreadsheets, CSV exports, cloud systems, databases and client records.
View accountant data solutionsAdvanced AI-assisted engineering analysis and development across PLC logic, legacy code, industrial networks, APIs, databases and manufacturing systems, using ALITA to scale investigation while JMTEQ engineering judgement determines the result.
Explore the ALITA capabilityFunctional design specifications, commissioning packs, support manuals, disaster recovery notes, network inventories and handover documentation for long-term maintainability.
Bring the fault, evidence and operational constraint. JMTEQ can help trace the issue across controls, software, data and communications.
Define the required behaviour, work from a known baseline and keep validation, rollback and handover in view.
Use engineering review and ALITA-supported analysis to reconstruct how legacy systems, PLCs, databases and applications work together.
Capability
Manufacturing software rarely lives in isolation. It has to work with PLCs, HMIs, instruments, databases, legacy applications, operators, maintenance engineers and production pressure. JMTEQ work is structured around those constraints from the start.
Typical deliverables are designed to be supportable after commissioning: clear configuration, visible status, controlled logging, sensible diagnostics and documentation that engineers can actually use.
Solutions for Accountants
Accountancy work often depends on data arriving from many places: bookkeeping platforms, payroll exports, bank files, client spreadsheets, CRM systems, portals, PDFs, CSV files and older databases. JMTEQ can help pull that information together, clean it, reconcile it and present it in formats that are easier to review and reuse.
The same engineering approach used for manufacturing data applies well to accountancy data: understand the source, preserve the baseline, transform carefully, flag exceptions and produce outputs that can be checked.
Gather exports, spreadsheets, database extracts and source files from multiple client or business systems.
Normalise formats, remove avoidable manual rework, validate required fields and identify data quality issues.
Map accounts, jobs, clients, periods, nominal codes and transaction records into a controlled reporting structure.
Create spreadsheets, dashboards, summary packs or exception reports that support review and decision making.
JMTEQ can help convert fragile copy-and-paste processes into clearer data workflows with checks, repeatability and documented assumptions.
AI-Augmented Engineering & ALITA
JMTEQ combines deep industrial automation and software engineering experience with advanced AI-assisted development, code analysis and system reasoning. ALITA, Augmented Logic & Intelligence for Technical Automation, is JMTEQ's proprietary engineering-intelligence approach for applying that capability to real automation and manufacturing systems.
This is not generic AI consulting and not simply asking for code fragments. AI provides scale, analysis capacity and implementation assistance. JMTEQ engineering knowledge determines what is correct, safe and appropriate for the plant, software, data and business process being supported.
ALITA
It doesn't just analyse files. It analyses systems. ALITA helps JMTEQ correlate engineering evidence across PLCs, industrial networks, application software, APIs, databases, logs, documentation and production context.
AI-assisted investigation can support PLC project review, online/offline comparison, block analysis, MC7 and DB evidence, hardware configuration, networks and automation sequencing.
VB.NET, C#, Node.js, Windows services, APIs, distributed services, data acquisition tools and legacy manufacturing applications can be inspected, modified and extended against a known source baseline.
Established systems can be reverse-engineered from source code, database structures, configuration, logs, screenshots, process sequences and operational evidence without assuming a full rewrite is required.
Root-cause analysis can correlate runtime logs, database errors, industrial communications, protocol behaviour, trend data, screenshots and observations from the live process across multiple layers.
JMTEQ can reason from machine and PLC behaviour through server-side software, APIs, SQL data, traceability records and business process impact instead of treating each layer separately.
AI-assisted development supports specialist engineering tools and applications, from initial requirement and architecture through implementation, validation, release notes and technical documentation.
Working method
JMTEQ uses AI within an engineering workflow: define the requirement, analyse the system, design the architecture, implement the change, validate the result and complete an engineering review before release.
Define the engineering problem, system boundary, constraints and acceptance criteria.
Use structured AI analysis methodology to inspect code, PLC evidence, data, logs and documentation.
Design architecture and implement controlled software or configuration changes against a known baseline.
Correlate evidence, test behaviour, challenge assumptions and verify the result against the real system.
Produce evidence-based engineering output, release notes, reports and support documentation.
Advanced analysis method
For larger or unfamiliar systems, JMTEQ uses a structured AI analysis methodology to break the problem down, automate or semi-automate inspection work, correlate evidence and then apply engineering judgement before documenting the outcome.
Engineering analysis powered by ALITA
ALITA is not presented as a standalone foundation model, autonomous engineer or generic chatbot. It is the JMTEQ engineering-intelligence layer used to organise system context, support analysis and assist implementation while the engineering decision remains with JMTEQ.
Typical work can span PLC and machine behaviour, industrial networks, software services, APIs, databases, reporting, documentation and manufacturing decisions.
Explore ALITAJMTEQ can help structure the requirement, understand the existing technology and use AI-augmented development to move the work towards a tested and supportable solution.
DataMiner expertise
JMTEQ supports DataMiner-style monitoring environments where reliable polling, clean data structures and maintainable handover are as important as the front-end views. This includes the application layer that gathers live SNMP data and the DataMiner-facing outputs used by drivers, elements, views and Visio pages.
Experience includes VB.NET Windows service applications that poll SNMP devices from configuration, maintain local data stores, generate output structures for DataMiner drivers and provide a supportable route for redundant monitoring deployments.
Structured polling of SNMP devices using configured IP addresses, OIDs, read communities, SNMP version, retries, timeouts, poll times and controlled sleep between reads.
Generation of stable output files and XML-style structures for DataMiner drivers, including parameter names, units, scaling/multiplication and grouped values.
Support for DataMiner element naming, view organisation, site-generation files, Visio references and Visio page mapping so monitored assets remain navigable.
Passive-server behaviour, local datastore design, auto-restart service recovery, failover considerations, rollback notes and operational recovery documentation.
Service/application/shared-code structures for long-running monitoring tools, including practical diagnostics, status visibility and maintainable configuration files.
Engineering support manuals, installation guides, commissioning checklists, rollback/recovery steps and clear notes for support engineers taking ownership.
Typical work
Focused engineering support for systems that sit between controls, monitoring, data and production operations.
Modify existing production applications, add new workflows, extend validation logic and keep changes compatible with live plant operation.
Capture process events, operator actions, test results and machine data so engineering and quality teams can prove what happened and when.
Connect PLCs, controllers, instruments, SNMP devices, DataMiner outputs and databases with robust read/write logic, retries, validation and diagnostic visibility.
Take a technical concept through architecture, implementation, target-system testing, controlled packaging, diagnostics and maintainable release.
Assess existing systems, document architecture, identify single points of failure and produce recovery/handover packs for maintenance and monitoring teams.
Approach
Review the process, existing code, PLC/HMI structure, database schema, communications and operational constraints before proposing a change.
Agree the required behaviour, data flow, failure handling, operator visibility, logging and acceptance criteria.
Build the modification with practical diagnostics, backwards compatibility where required, and a clear route for testing and rollback.
Provide documentation, commissioning notes and support information so the system can be maintained after the project is complete.
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Industrial automation, DataMiner/SNMP monitoring, control software, accountancy data consolidation, ALITA, AI-augmented engineering and engineering data systems.
julian.meacham@jmteq.comSearch summary
JMTEQ provides UK-based industrial automation, accountancy data consolidation and engineering software support for manufacturing, test, finance and specialist technical environments. Services include Siemens S7, TIA Portal, WinCC, PLC/HMI support, VB.NET, C# and Node.js engineering software, SQL Server traceability systems, DataMiner/SNMP monitoring, accountant reporting automation, multi-source account data consolidation, ALITA engineering intelligence, AI-assisted PLC and software analysis, legacy-system investigation, root-cause debugging, industrial communications analysis, API and distributed-system architecture, release engineering, reporting, dashboards, commissioning support and engineering handover documentation.
FAQ
JMTEQ provides UK-based industrial automation, control software, production database, DataMiner/SNMP monitoring and engineering support services for manufacturing and test environments.
Yes. JMTEQ supports DataMiner-facing monitoring applications, SNMP aggregation, OID polling, driver output files, element and view structures, Visio mapping, redundancy behaviour and operational handover documentation.
Yes. JMTEQ supports Siemens S7, TIA Portal, WinCC and related plant control systems, including fault finding, modifications, commissioning support and documentation.
Yes. JMTEQ builds VB.NET and SQL Server applications for test data, traceability, operator workflows, reporting, dashboards, CSV exports and controlled data logging.
Yes. JMTEQ can build accountancy data workflows that import, clean, consolidate and report information from spreadsheets, CSV files, bookkeeping exports, payroll reports, databases and other business systems.
Yes. JMTEQ supports plant data acquisition and diagnostics for Modbus devices, Eurotherm controllers, analogue tags, load cells, process measurements, setpoints and live-value logging.
Yes. JMTEQ produces support manuals, commissioning checklists, recovery notes, rollback plans, network inventories and engineering handover documents for long-term maintainability.
JMTEQ uses AI and ALITA to assist with engineering analysis, source-code and PLC investigation, implementation, fault finding, evidence correlation, testing and technical documentation. The work is directed and verified using engineering knowledge, operational evidence and controlled release processes.
Yes. JMTEQ can help take a specialist software, industrial or embedded-network product from an initial requirement through architecture, implementation, testing, diagnostics, packaging, deployment and support documentation.