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A New Fire Alarm

and Extinguishing Control System

It is the first system fully integrated in a safety PLC platform. Integrated in
an Allen-Bradley Logix solution and based on the Rockwell Automation
platform; it is certified according to European standards and offers
multiple benefits

Gianbattista Zago, SAFCO Engineering SpA

AFCO Engineering, established in
2003, designs and manufactures
fire and gas systems and equipment
for the industrial field.
At the beginning, the company’s
S main activity was related to
equipment sales. Subsequently, according to
customer needs and its developed skills, SAFCO
Engineering focused more on system integration.
Through better experiences it has maintained rapid
growth and has invested in its business competence
by recruiting the best professional and experienced
engineers who are fully aware of this critical area of
safety supply.
With offices in Milan and Abu Dhabi (UEA), the
company uses its integral engineering
expertise to customize any system to perfectly Advanced technological SAFCO SM System
match all its customer’s requirements. It solutions is the first system
provides genuine support to major contracting addressable fire-
project teams during feasibility, conceptual SAFCO Engineering can give this confidence with a detection control and
extinguishing control
design, detailed design engineering, build and new fire alarm and extinguishing control system SM system that is fully
commissioning. Series. This is the first system addressable fire- integrated in a safety
SAFCO Engineering’s core business focus is on detection control and extinguishing control system PLC platform
integrated fire & gas systems, addressable and that is fully integrated in a safety PLC platform. It is
conventional fire alarm systems, fire & gas detection designed to be configured as an integrated card in an
devices, alerting systems & devices, clean-agent- Allen-Bradley® Logix®-based solution – comprising
gas based fire fighting systems and inert-gas based an Allen Bradley ControlLogix® programmable
fire fighting systems. automation controller with redundancy module and
SM Addressable Fire Detection and Extinguishing the RSLogix™ 5000 programming environment –
Control System Plant-wide safety systems must alongside networking devices and IO cards, in order
provide confidence that both people and plant are to realize a completely addressable and conventional
fully protected in hazardous industrial working Fire and Gas system. The Allen-Bradley PAC is
environment. complemented by an Allen-Bradley PanelView™ Plus

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