Comprehensive control engineering, end-to-end.
Our team is built around power plant commissioning — a discipline that demands long campaigns, irregular hours and almost no margin for error. We are punctual, prepared and available: weekdays, weekends, on remote sites and for extended periods. From early design reviews through to performance guarantees, we cover the full control-engineering scope so that customers can rely on a single partner across the lifecycle of their plant.
End-to-end control engineering services.
Controls Engineering
We develop the full control engineering scope — from system architecture, hardware sizing and I/O allocation to communications specification and configuration, logic drawing development and programming, alarm list generation and HMI graphics. Each deliverable is rigorously verified and validated from design stage through on-site Factory Acceptance Tests, ensuring a robust and seamless transition into commissioning.
Control System Commissioning
We oversee every stage of control system commissioning — from hardware installation and construction supervision to quality compliance, cold commissioning, signal verification and internal communications checks. Our engineers carry out logic verification and refinement, functional testing, on-the-spot troubleshooting and seamless interfacing with third-party equipment, ensuring a reliable and fully integrated control environment ready for live operation.
Power Plant Tuning
We deliver precision online tuning across the entire plant — gas and steam turbines, the water-steam cycle and the balance of plant, including pumps, centrifugal compressors and a wide range of associated equipment. Our purpose is clear: to extract every attainable point of efficiency while preserving plant stability, safety and full compliance with emissions limits.
Power Plant Communications
We integrate every device across diverse network architectures — ensuring cybersecurity, safe routing and robust firewalling — through the full spectrum of industrial protocols, including OPC, IEC 61850, Modbus, IEC 101, IEC 104 and DNP, among others. Our solutions span SCADA systems, proprietary DCS hardware and third-party software, delivering seamless, secure and reliable plant-wide communications.
Control System and DCS Upgrade
Specialists in fast-track control system and DCS upgrades that demand thorough verification within the tight window of a planned outage. From rewiring checks and adaptation of control logic to the new platform, through to plant start-up during extended shifts, our team works around the clock to minimise downtime and restore full operation as swiftly and safely as possible.
Commissioning Management and Team setup
We provide end-to-end commissioning leadership, deploying experienced commissioning managers to accelerate the commissioning phase, align priorities with construction and orchestrate daily and mid-term activities. Our team coordinates staffing and vendors while serving as a single, reliable interface with the customer — ensuring clarity, momentum and full project alignment from start-up to handover.
Power Plant Operation
Our commissioning lead operators are pivotal during the early stages of operation, when systems remain under test and tuning. They safeguard plant availability, report and escalate issues, and play a central role in troubleshooting and process refinement to secure a high-quality outcome. They also train and mentor the customer's operations crew, ensuring a seamless transition from commissioning to reliable commercial operation.
Field Engineer Support
Our process, mechanical, electrical and I&C field engineers resolve issues across every discipline and support field operations throughout all phases of commissioning. Reliable plant performance depends on precise instrument calibration, sound MCC and signal wiring and accurate mechanical alignment — fundamentals our team safeguards to ensure consistent and dependable system behaviour.
Special Needs
Backed by an extensive international network of collaborators and trusted contacts, we can rapidly source highly qualified specialists for any discipline — from vibration analysis to emissions expertise — ensuring your project always has the precise capability it requires, exactly when it needs it.
Why customers choose us.
Experienced people, real teamwork
A cohesive team of senior engineers who have long worked side by side, operating with the discipline and trust of a single unit — a decisive advantage amid the demanding pace of plant commissioning, where seamless coordination is as essential as technical excellence.
Deep power-plant know-how
Extensive hands-on expertise across Combined Cycle Gas Turbine, Combined Heat and Power and industrial facilities, paired with an acute sense for troubleshooting under live operating conditions and demanding schedules — enabling decisive, well-judged interventions when they matter most.
Uncompromising standards of excellence
We uphold the highest standards in everything we deliver — from elegant, well-structured code and meticulously maintained documentation to rigorous safety procedures — ensuring a flawless, dependable execution on every project.
Once partners, always partners
Customers who work with us tend to stay with us. Our commitment, transparency and genuine ownership of their goals build the kind of trust that earns repeat collaboration, project after project.
International reach. Local compliance.
With worldwide compliance solutions and an international, multilingual team, SORT supports projects across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas and Asia. We work alongside top-tier customers such as Baker Hughes, GE Vernova, Mytilineos, Siemens Energy, Mitsubishi Power and Técnicas Reunidas — adapting seamlessly to each customer's engineering standards, project workflow and site procedures.