INEA
About us
INEA designs, builds, and integrates end-to-end industrial turnkey solutions that are more than the sum of their parts. Complete automation of continuous, batch, and discrete production lines enhanced with manufacturing intelligence, quality control, and energy management; made in Europe with an engineering-driven philosophy.
INEA has completed over 3.000 projects worldwide as a recognised solution delivery partner for Rockwell Automation, Siemens, Dassault Systèmes, AVEVA, and others. We deliver well-rounded experiences that empower customers on the path to unprecedented productivity.
Products & services
Local RES and battery management
inGenious Link acts as a central coordination system between local RES, the battery storage system, and the metering point. Through the metering point connection, it monitors consumption and generation in real time. Using local forecasts (weather and solar radiation) and historical data, it predicts on-site generation. It also analyses power draw history to identify time intervals with high net import from the grid, which is the difference between locally generated and total consumed energy. This enables excess renewable energy to be stored at the right time and used later during high-price periods. Doing so increases the on-site utilisation of locally generated energy, which directly improves the economic efficiency of both new and existing solar power plants, wind turbines, biogas engines, cogeneration units, and other local RES.
Industrial demand response EMS
The technology for large-scale energy management, demand response multiplies the benefits of several small changes. By adapting the power draw of primary and secondary manufacturing equipment with respect to each other, their total energy consumption is optimised to reduce costs without sacrificing productivity. Each prosumer (consumer and producer) and potential energy source are treated as a separate user in the system, going as far as adapting electrical and gas sources under the same process, understanding the cost benefit of both. Mutual adaptation of machines in separate processes allows energy consumption to be optimised based on all available information—such as production demands, forecasts, time-of-use charges, and energy price—and the use of sources of flexibility that may not be immediately apparent.
User-centric energy monitoring
inGenious View is an intelligent energy information system with a modern user interface that can monitor all types of energy sources and flows. It provides insight into hidden information for more efficient energy management through custom indicators and smart alarms. For advanced energy accounting, detailed analyses and automatic report generation are available within any desired time frame. Understanding energy use as it changes state is complex, but integration of production data with energy monitoring makes it quicker and easier.
Industrial utility automation
Industrial utility automation controls and optimises systems such as process water, compressed air, HVAC, and clean utilities in production environments. Aligned with GAMP 5 principles, it uses field instrumentation and analysers, PLC/DCS, SCADA, and predictive models to maintain stable operating conditions, protect equipment, reduce energy and media losses, and support consistent product quality. The end-to-end automation solution covers design and engineering, installation, and maintenance, resulting in transparent monitoring, real-time data visibility, early-fault detection, and integration with plant-wide control systems.
Wastewater treatment
This multi-stage process is tailored to wastewater characteristics, with design targets set by the site permit, and receiving-water objectives. It combines physical steps—sedimentation, flotation, filtration, stripping, ion exchange, and adsorption—to remove dissolved and suspended substances; chemical steps—precipitation, oxidation or reduction, and stripping of generated gases—to convert or separate contaminants; and biological steps, where microbes consume organic, and in some cases inorganic, pollutants. Industrial loads fluctuate with batch production and Cleaning-in-Place (CIP); systems manage this by segregating challenging streams and using equalisation to smooth flow and pH before downstream treatment. Closed-loop control of temperature, flow, pH, pressure, and volume is supported by diagnostics, interlocks, and alarm management. Live sensor data stabilise performance and energy use, and records are retained for regulatory purposes, with historian-backed trends and audit trails.
Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS)
Automated and customisable solution for long-term planning, intelligent scheduling with dynamic adjustments, ERP/MES integration, and visibility into production details. Optimises the use of energy and other resources, materials, and labour to reduce waste, improve efficiency, and ensure on-time deliveries. Supports finite capacity scheduling, constraint-based optimisation, and what-if scenario analysis to adapt plans in real time. Seamlessly synchronises with shop floor data for closed-loop feedback, enabling continuous plan refinement based on actual production performance. With production running constantly and supply chains tight, every minute needs to be used productively.
Data historian
Specialized software system for collecting, storing, and retrieving high-frequency time-series data from DCS, SCADA, analysers/PAT, and sensors. It stores tamper-evident, time-synchronised records with asset, batch, and material context, ensuring fast retrieval and long-term retention. Aligned with EU GMP Annex 11 and 21 CFR Part 11, Historian integrates with MES, LIMS, and AI tools and enable trend analysis, root-cause investigation, golden-batch profiling, and predictive maintenance. By hosting and feeding multivariate models and soft sensors, it generates early-warning indicators, provides operator decision support, and accelerates continuous process optimisation.
Distributed Control Systems (DCS)
DCS are a step up from traditional PLCs connected with an ISA-88 batch engine and separate SCADA/HMI and historian software. Those can be integrated into one platform or interoperate with external tools. When implementing, we draw on experience from PLC-based logic, supervisory control integration, chemical process automation, and a thorough understanding of the signal level. While DCS are more complex systems for distributed and more complex operations, they offer unique benefits beyond unification: deterministic, high-availability control, governed change, and consistent alarms and graphics. They are the logical choice where tightly controlled batch execution and exact operating procedures are mandatory.
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
MES provides real-time visibility and control over GAMP compliant operations by collecting detailed data from machines, sensors, and operators. It precisely executes work orders and recipes, generates Electronic Batch Records (eBR) with review-by-exception, and maintains tamper-evident audit trails and e-signatures to meet regulatory requirements. It enforces weigh-and-dispense tolerances, sampling and in-process control checks, and material status, enabling full lot genealogy across batch, continuous, and hybrid processes. MES acts as a coordination layer between enterprise planning and shop-floor execution. Bidirectional data flow supports immediate corrective actions, production monitoring, and continuous process optimisation, while keeping production running smoothly.
Predictive production processes
Predictive production uses soft sensors, multivariate statistical process control, and hybrid first-principles/machine learning models to turn operator know-how into practical, data-driven guidance. In continuous, batch, and hybrid plants, correlated time-series from DCS, PAT, and related systems are analysed in real time to flag deviations early or “just-in time,” predict quality or equipment health, and recommend set-point changes or maintenance windows. Predictive control keeps units stable as feeds and utilities vary. It operates close to constraints without breaching them, improving on-spec rates, reducing process upsets, and protecting assets.
Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM)
MOM coordinates production, quality, inventory, maintenance, and planning across Levels 2–4 of the ISA-95 model. It synchronises campaigns and changeovers, aligns tank farm and bulk inventory with production plans, manages specification and master-data consistency, and orchestrates hand-offs between production, quality, warehouse, and maintenance across batch, continuous, and hybrid units. MES manages production execution and data capture; APS performs finite-capacity scheduling with constraints and changeover rules; warehouse management controls inventory, locations, and material flows; maintenance manages assets, calibration, and condition-based interventions; quality management handles specifications, sampling decisions, nonconformances, and release processes.
Integrated quality control
Our quality control systems provide 100% in-line product inspection without compromising throughput or traceability. Each unit or batch is inspected automatically and non-destructively at every critical production stage, with precise measurement and redundant sensorics. By detecting defects early, quality assurance helps maintain process stability, reduce scrap, and support continuous production flow. Fully integrated with MES / MOM and batch automation systems, our purpose-built inspection platforms adapt to production flow and test requirements, ensuring compliance with defined parameters and geometry—from intermediate steps to final validation.
Marking and labelling
Automated marking systems with full PLC and HMI integration deliver precise printing, engraving, and labelling of text, barcodes, Data Matrix, logos, and custom graphics. Parameters can be set from the recipe/MES system, allowing PLC changeovers or adjustments of the printing content. Vision systems, distance sensors, servo positioning, and dedicated valves keep marks consistent. By driving automatic lane or box sorting and reject handling, these systems prevent mislabelled products from leaving the cell. For chemical use, the system supports all required regulatory and product identification data, using solvent-resistant media. Inline scanners verify each mark to code quality grading, logging reads to a central database for end-to-end traceability and compliance.
Material handling
The movement of materials in a production process is a common constraint in designing a factory floor. Material handling systems are designed to keep conveyors and pipes both out of the way and accessible to operators and maintenance, the need for which must always be weighed against safety and process requirements. Product control is built-in via continuous checks and verifications: tracking, indexing, counting, and measuring. Integration with higher level systems of MES, APS, and WMS makes sure that product information is in the right place alongside the product at every hand-off. By automating repetitive, labour-intensive tasks, these systems decrease reliance on manual labour so operators can focus on higher-value work. When material must still be handled manually, we follow modern ergonomics and safety standards to keep the workplace easy to navigate and the operator safe .
Chemical process automation
We automate processes that greatly vary in depth and complexity—from paint mixing to refining precious metals. Alongside a thorough understanding of the automation logic, cross-domain knowledge makes the integration easier and the finished solution of a higher quality. Despite specifics of individual production and products, chemical preparation can be broken down into distinct unit operations, which can then be translated to relatively simple, automatable steps. Following this logic, as long as a process can be deterministically defined, it can be automated. This allows us to neatly transfer one project’s improvements to another, building on a compounding set of internally defined best practices.
Batch automation
Sourcing from decades of industrial process control experience, our batch automation solutions are state-of-the-art while focusing on safety and reliability. Batch automation based on the ISA-88 standard and following GAMP ensures consistent product quality through structured recipe management, coordinated equipment control, and precise sequencing. Automating resource allocation, execution phases, material tracking, and real-time status monitoring are essential. Before implementation, every process is validated by functional safety specialists and digitally simulated, ensuring a secure and predictable transition to live production. Structured integration with MES, SCADA, and historian layers provides full traceability, performance insight, and compliance reporting. We build on industry-standard hardware and software platforms, enhanced with our in-house improvements for smoother integration and simple replication.