Insights, Open Architecture
The Hidden Cost
A proprietary controller works beautifully, right up until you need to change it, expand it, or maintain it, and discover only one company on earth can.
Innova Technologies built its reputation by rejecting that trap. In the 1990s, while much of the turbomachinery industry still shipped locked-down, proprietary controls, we led the move to open architecture. Today every system we deliver is built on that principle.
Defined Precisely
The phrase is used loosely. We mean something specific.
Open architecture, to us, means control logic built on the IEC 61131-3 standard programming languages, deployable on the mainstream platforms your plant already supports, and fully documented so your team, or any qualified integrator, can understand and modify it. No hidden code, no proprietary handcuffs, no single point of dependency.
Investment Protection
A control system outlives the project that installed it. It should outlive the vendor relationship too.
Standardizing on an open platform lets you minimize plant spares, simplify troubleshooting, and train one way across every control application, turbine, compressor, generator, and balance of plant alike. When it is time to expand or upgrade, you are choosing to work with us because we are good, not because you are trapped.
The Standard We Helped Set
We did not adopt open architecture because it was fashionable. We adopted it because it was right for our customers.
Decades later, it remains the foundation of everything we build. If your plant is weighing open versus proprietary control, talk with an Innova engineer: we will show you exactly what the difference costs over the life of the asset.
Independent control for every turbine class.
Anti-surge, loadshare, performance, and capacity control.
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A MESSAGE FROM JOHN KAZOUR, CEO
To our customers and partners,
For more than 50 years, our team has helped customers keep critical operations running. We built our reputation as Petrotech by taking responsibility for control systems on important rotating machinery.
As more industries came to us with similar challenges across power generation, compression, and hydro applications, our engineering team kept finding ways to solve them. Eventually, the business outgrew the Petrotech name.
We are entering our next chapter as Innova Technologies. The new name reflects the full scope of our work as a rotating machinery control systems specialist. We engineer controls around the machine, deliver complete projects from design through commissioning, and provide support that stays with the problem until it is solved.
Our name is changing, but the people, engineering experience, and commitment behind the work continue. Our responsibility to active projects and installed systems carries forward under the Innova Technologies name. Your current contacts remain the right place to start, and we will communicate directly if an administrative record requires an update.
We appreciate the trust you have placed in us over the decades, and we look forward to continuing that work as Innova Technologies.
CEO, Innova Technologies
