Make the complexvisible.
First Vision Automation helps industrial teams see where performance is won, where risk is hiding, and what to do next.
Your plant is already telling you what it needs.
We help you hear it sooner.
First Vision Automation brings more than 20 years of international experience to PLC / SCADA systems integration, field instrumentation, electrical engineering, and sub-station automation on a turnkey basis.
Turnkey systems integration.
First Vision Automation (FVA) provides professional systems integration of turnkey and electrical engineering projects to industry. FVA has abundant in-house experience in system design and successful implementation.
Plants have been successfully commissioned using the following control and supervisory platforms:
- SiemensS7-300 / 400 / 1200 / 1500
- RockwellL7, L8 & Compact
- YokogawaStardom
- ABBAC450s
- Siemens WinCC
- Rockwell FactoryTalk
- Yokogawa FAST/TOOLS
- ABB Application Builder
- GE iFix SCADA
- Wonderware
From signal to certainty.
PLC & SCADA systems integration
Expert programming and integration across ABB, Siemens, Rockwell, Schneider, WinCC, FactoryTalk, PlantPAx, DeltaV, and TIA Portal environments.
Explore serviceInstrumentation & control engineering
Field instrumentation, control-system specifications, conceptual drawings, P&IDs, functional specifications, and instrumentation loop drawings.
Explore servicePanels, networks & data
Control-panel design and manufacturing, historians, data loggers, control networks, fibre and copper infrastructure, and data centres.
Explore servicePlant readiness & commissioning
Plant I/O testing, startup, commissioning, and FAT support — complementing your team or taking complete responsibility.
Explore serviceOne view. Fewer surprises.
We connect the layers between field equipment and leadership decisions. The result is a live operating picture that makes bottlenecks, alarms, and opportunities impossible to ignore.
See how we work
Built for the real world.
High-consequence environments demand more than off-the-shelf answers. We bring engineering discipline to every system we touch.
Mining & minerals
Hard-rock and surface operations where uptime, throughput, and safety are non-negotiable.
Water treatment
Process control and instrumentation for municipal and industrial water infrastructure.
Process manufacturing
Continuous and batch processes tuned for yield, quality, and energy efficiency.
Interfaces that operators trust.
SCADA views, control architecture, PLC hardware, and network infrastructure brought together as one dependable operating layer.
Real SCADA interfaces.
Live operator screens delivered to plant floors — substation single-lines, network backbones, milling mimics and reagent batch control. Built, commissioned and handed over running.
Built to run. Wired to last.
From enclosure to backplane — control panels engineered, assembled and commissioned in-house, with disciplined wiring and documented termination.
Installations in the field.
A selection of industrial installations and site setups — control rooms, panel suites, field instrumentation and plant infrastructure delivered and commissioned by FVA.
Work that travels well.
Selected client and project reference assets — a visual record of the environments, organisations, and systems connected to our work.
A career with us.
First Vision Automation is growing. We're hiring across software and engineering — join a team building industrial systems across Southern Africa and beyond.
Better decisions at the edge.
Because the best automation is not the system with the most features. It is the system your team trusts when the pressure is on.
Clear operating picture
One trusted source of truth spanning the field floor to the boardroom.
Faster fault finding
Alarms and trends that point your team straight to the root cause.
Safer interventions
Control logic and interlocks engineered to protect people and assets.
See what your system can do.
Tell us where the friction is. We will help you find the signal.
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