Bhavanee Automation Solutions
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About Bhavanee Automation Solutions

An instrumentation-led PLC and SCADA system integrator, founded in Hyderabad in 2003, with systems running in India, the UAE, Nigeria, Tanzania and the United States.

A single, accountable partner for control systems

Bhavanee Automation Solutions was founded to give process plants one partner who understands the instruments in the field as well as the logic in the PLC and the screens in the control room. Since 2003 that has meant LPG bottling plants and pipeline terminals for India's oil marketing companies, custody transfer metering in India and the UAE, freeze dryer SCADA exported worldwide, and now water treatment plants and substations inside EPC packages.

We are a GE iFIX and Cimplicity house with GE PLCs in the panels we build, and we integrate Honeywell, ABB, Emerson and IEC 61850 devices where a client's standard asks for them.

2003Founded in Hyderabad
5Countries with Bhavanee systems running
~22LPG plants posting stock to SAP automatically
20 yrsOEM partnership on freeze dryers exported worldwide

Twenty years of control systems

  1. 2003Founded in Hyderabad

    Started as an instrumentation-led integrator serving oil and gas and pharmaceutical plants.

  2. 2005Standardised on GE iFIX

    First freeze dryer SCADA for Lyophilization Systems Inc.; the OEM partnership continues today.

  3. 2017Auto dip posting goes live

    Measured LPG stock posted into SAP at IOCL, later BPCL; now running at about 22 plants.

  4. TodayWater, power and international work

    Redundant pipeline terminals, metering skids in the UAE, WTP and substation packages for EPC contractors.

Led by an engineer who still commissions the major jobs

Shivakumar Waddepalli

Founder and CEO

An instrumentation engineer (B.E., Instrumentation, Vivekananda College, Mumbai) who founded Bhavanee in 2003 after working with Enron Oil & Gas and Emerson Process Management on electronic transmitters, control valves, Fisher RTUs, PLCs and SCADA. He still leads design and commissioning on major jobs, including commissioning work in the United States.

  • Instrumentation
  • Emerson Process Management
  • Enron Oil & Gas
  • GE iFIX since 2005

Instrumentation, PLC, SCADA and panel engineers under one roof

Design engineers who write the control philosophy and draw the panels, PLC and SCADA programmers, a panel shop that builds and tests to our drawings, and commissioning engineers who stay on site until the plant runs the way the philosophy says it should.

Recent work, site visits and milestones

Photographs from current projects, FATs and commissioning trips.

What clients can count on

One accountable team

The engineers who write the control philosophy also build the panels, write the software and commission on site. No hand-offs between vendors.

Built and tested before dispatch

Panels are built to our drawings and software is tested against the I/O list and cause and effect charts at FAT, with the client present.

Instruments understood, not just wired

We come from instrumentation. Measurement quality, calibration and loop checks get the same attention as the PLC logic.

We stay after commissioning

Annual maintenance contracts with a named engineer, and migrations planned so the plant keeps running.

Who we build with

We have built on GE iFIX and Cimplicity for twenty years and put GE PLCs in the panels we build. Bhavanee is the authorised representative of Nirmal Industrial Controls for Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, and we integrate Emerson flow computers, remote controllers and field instruments on metering and terminal projects.

GE VernovaProficy iFIX

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