Scottish Enterprise Awards 2025/ 8 Industrial Environments Cybersecurity Innovator Award 2025 Independent control and safety systems specialist PSS is an industrial automation and OT specialist, providing engineering services internationally, and across multiple sectors. As it celebrates its 15th year in operation with a rebrand, we learn more about the firm from OT Systems Manager, Myles Gowen, as it achieves a highly coveted title in this year’s Scottish Enterprise Awards. Originally founded in 2010 under the name Process Safety Solutions, PSS was established in response to the industries’ need for local and agile technical experts. At the time, it specialised in the support, maintenance and modifications of safety instrument systems for the process control sector. Over the past 15 years, it has expanded its product portfolio, significantly. Today, from its headquarters in Aberdeen, a dedicated team of highly experienced and professional engineers draws on more than 250 combined years’ worth of system experience in the global energy sector and provides unbiased and reliable solutions to the highest engineering standards. Together, it forms the local centre of excellence for industrial automation systems, delivering automation solutions for PLC, SIS, DCS, SCADA, HMI and networking systems to enhance operational efficiency and safety across industrial processes ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance. The team provides full lifecycle services for industrial automation and OT systems, including design and build, technical support, alarm management, functional safety, OT cyber security and automated validation. Via partnerships with OEMs and complementary system integrators, PSS can provide competitive offerings on new system builds, upgrades, modifications, maintenance, support, and spares and repairs. PSS is a Companion Company of the Institute of Measurement and Control and is actively involved within all levels of the institute, with staff volunteering at board and local levels, the Functional Safety and Cyber Security Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Women in Measurement, Automation & Control (WIMAC) group. Many of the organisation’s engineers are also members of the Institute of Measurement and Control, which is PSS’s preferred route for Professional Registration. “Through continual improvement, our bespoke management systems, and a focus on the development of the next generation of systems engineers, PSS delivers the highest standard of systems engineering.” Being based in Scotland allows PSS to readily provide local support to its clients. With more and more companies relying on centralised engineering hubs, PSS is proud to have a local presence, which allows it to provide consistent client representatives, familiar faces, plus gives the firm the ability to have meetings face-to-face. Several core values underpin the overall company ethos at PSS, helping to form and shape its stand-out strategy. These centre around: Integrity: a duty to uphold the highest standards of professional conduct, to act with honesty and integrity and to work to regulations and the requirements of international standards. Improvement: continual improvement of bespoke quality, functional safety, environmental and cyber security management systems, led by the leadership team, staff and customers, means PSS always delivers the best it can. Innovation: through an internal R&D team and its product partners, the firm is always poised to develop, assess and utilise new and emerging technologies and engineering practices. Inspiration: PSS is focused on the development of the next generation of systems engineers through training and mentoring, the dedicated engineering lead leadership team, and strategic partnerships with the Institute of Measurement and Control, as well as local universities. Interaction: working closely with clients to provide the best service possible through consistent client representatives and subject matter experts on client systems and sites. Inclusion: actively creating a workforce where employees from a variety of diverse backgrounds are represented, feel valued and respected. These values help PSS to differentiate from competitors, however there is another unique selling point which the company possesses, which make it stand tall above others in the industry. “Being product independent allows us to offer the best fit solution to our customers’ problems,” Myles Gowen, the firm’s OT Systems Manager, tells us. “Through continual improvement, our bespoke management systems, and a focus on the development of the next generation of systems engineers, PSS delivers the highest standard of systems engineering.” As an experienced Chartered Engineer and Engineering Manager, with more than 15 years’ worth of hands-on experience across the industrial automation and energy sectors, Myles specialises in the design, delivery, and management of Safety and Control Systems, combining deep technical knowledge with proven leadership in Functional Safety, OT Cyber Security, Project Management, and Quality Management. Whilst aligning with the firm’s core values, Myles also echoes PSS’s vision: of being committed to supporting the Energy Transition process and the global pursuit of Net Zero. He strongly believes that expansion of knowledge of new engineering practices, techniques AIM-Oct25243
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