The savings are commercial, not mechanical
A control-system migration is one of the largest capital projects your plant will run, and the vendor scopes and prices it to their advantage. Any credible migration already keeps your field wiring and I/O, so the savings are not mechanical. They are commercial: padded engineering, software and licenses you will not use, and a lifecycle agreement that follows for years. We know exactly where those levers sit, because we used to build these quotes.
Any platform. Honeywell TDC3000 and Experion, Emerson DeltaV, Ovation, Provox and RS3, Yokogawa Centum, Rockwell, Foxboro I/A, Bailey INFI90, and Siemens. The vendor playbook is the same wherever a migration is scoped and sold.
Where ROI saves you money
Right-size the scope
Trim padded engineering, over-specified software, and licenses you won’t use, while keeping the redundant controllers and I/O that protect uptime.
Negotiate the commercial deal
Insider knowledge of how vendors price migrations: list-to-net discounts, and license and support terms.
Cut the lifecycle / service agreement
A typical agreement runs about 2% of the installed base per year. We renegotiate it lower for recurring savings, not a one-time win.
Level competing vendor bids
Several vendors quoting the same job? We normalize every bid to one scope, expose the padding and change-order traps, and use the competition to cut your price.
Phase to your budget & turnarounds
Remove the vendor’s end-of-life deadline leverage and defer non-critical scope to later capital cycles.
Owner’s engineer through delivery
Review proposals, FAT and SAT, and control the change orders and overruns where migrations quietly bleed.
On an average 10,000 I/O migration: roughly 20–25% off the project cost, plus about $70–90K per year off the lifecycle agreement — and ROI’s fee is a fraction of what it saves you.
Illustrative · anchored to your actual vendor proposalHow it works
- You send us the vendor proposal and, if available, your current lifecycle or service agreement.
- We benchmark the scope and pricing, line by line, against what the work realistically costs.
- We normalize competing bids to one scope and build your negotiation position.
- We hand you a clear savings plan and, if you want, stay on as owner’s engineer through delivery.
Everything is advisory and completely vendor-neutral. There is no product to push and no rip-and-replace sales pitch. All engagements begin with a mutual NDA before any proposal or system data is reviewed.
Get the full breakdown: Cost-Effective Approaches (PDF) · Migration Savings (PDF)