Brown Welcomes 3 New Team Members
We’re pleased to welcome three great additions to our staff in 2018: Nathaniel Scott, PE is an electrical engineer with expertise in industrial power and controls, as well as power system analysis. Nathan received his BSEE from Arkansas Tech. Ethan Hutchins interned at Brown while earning his BSME from UALR, and has accepted a position […]
Leveraging Complexity to Simplify Industrial Automation
Industrial automation is a risky endeavor because it matches computers, which are very reliable and predictable, with plant equipment that can be less reliable and predictable. To further complicate matters, computers can only attempt to sense and control equipment through input and output devices that do not always work as expected and are sometimes the […]
Brown Awarded NSF SBIR Grant to Develop STEM Education Tool
In December 2017, Ben Rainwater, PhD of Brown Engineers was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to research the development of a water engineering educational tool for high school students. This Phase I grant, from NSF’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, allows Brown Engineers to translate real-world engineering into a STEM curriculum in […]
Architectural-MEP Team Leaders Honored for Outstanding Performance
Brown’s Architectural Team has established itself as the MEP engineer-of-choice for a growing number of Arkansas architects and other prime consultants. Behind this accomplishment are three people who’ve built and fostered key relationships, cultivating repeat clients who now call on Brown Engineers first for mechanical and electrical engineering. They consistently impress with their professionalism, initiative […]
More Powerful, Open & Secure SCADA—on a Budget!
Free webinar examines successful, affordable upgrades in Clarksville & Russellville, Arkansas Join Dee Brown, principal of Brown Engineers, this Wednesday, April 19 from 11:00 a.m. to noon CDT, for a free live webinar examining how and why Russellville and Clarksville recently switched to New SCADA systems with secure PLCS. Since switching over a year ago, both utilities […]
Brown Wins 2017 Engineering Excellence Award
Electric utility’s new SCADA boosts cybersecurity, projected to save $400K/year On March 16, 2017, Brown Engineers received the 2017 Engineering Excellence Award for Energy Efficiency from ACEC-Arkansas, for the new electric utility SCADA system in Clarksville, Arkansas. Brown created the nation’s first cybersecure electric SCADA system for Clarksville Light and Water, using Bedrock Automation’s […]
What controller fits your application?
In his February 2017 cover story for Applied Automation Magazine, our own Dee Brown gives in-depth advice on choosing the right controllers for your usage, citing recent case studies in Russellville and Clarksville, Arkansas. Control Engineering’s Applied Automation magazine is the premier title serving manufacturing and utilities. Each issue demonstrates how automation, instrumentation and control techniques are applied to increase capacity, […]
Recent Malware Find Shows Utilities Need Cybersecurity
Click to read more.
Chicago Smart Industry Expo Features Clarksville Light & Water
SCADA network designed to deflect cyber attacks, meet future utility and municipal needs, and connect people, business and industry. On Tuesday, September 27, CLW General Manager John Lester joined our own Dee Brown at the 2016 Smart Industry Conference in Chicago. The two presented Clarksville Light & Water’s game-changing, cyber-secure New SCADA project, which illustrates how Brown Engineers is helping utilities better manage their infrastructure […]
Clarksville’s Electrical SCADA Upgrade Featured at National ICC Conference
Future-Proofing SCADA with Ignition & Bedrock Automation This coming Wednesday (9/21/16), Dee Brown will speak in Folsom, California at next week’s sold-out Ignition Community Conference (ICC’16), hosted by Inductive Automation (IA). He’ll discuss how Brown Engineers, a Certified Premier Integrator for IA, used Ignition’s incredibly versatile SCADA HMI software and Bedrock Automation’s ultra-secure PLC’s to help Clarksville […]
