ARC builds the software layer on top of the systems that run your plant — data pipelines, web applications, and AI tools — led by a specialist with twenty years in process control, from the DCS console to the cloud.
Get data out of PI, Experion, HYSYS, and plant databases — and into pipelines that run every day. Orchestrated extracts, production volume reporting, emissions feeds, and data-quality tooling: scheduled, monitored, recoverable.
Web software your engineering team opens every morning. Full-stack applications on Kubernetes and live process-monitoring dashboards — steam, casing gas, diluent, emissions — with authentication, roles, and automated reporting built in.
AI wired into real plant systems, not demos. MCP servers over the historian and lakehouse, agent platforms for engineering teams, and enterprise LLM rollout with authentication and cost governance from day one.
ARC's practice is built on a career spent inside industrial control systems — first programming them, then running them, now building on top of them.
DCS, PLC, and HMI programming across industrial process facilities — the logic, graphics, and configuration that operators run the plant with.
Administering distributed control system platforms at operating facilities — the servers, networks, and infrastructure that control systems live on.
Building the layer above: data pipelines, web applications, and AI tooling that connect plant systems to the people and decisions that depend on them.
AVEVA PI Historian & PI AF · Honeywell Experion · Aspen HYSYS · SCADA / HMI · Azure & Kubernetes · Dagster · SQL Server & Oracle · Databricks · Claude / Model Context Protocol
A web platform that runs Aspen HYSYS against years of historian data in scheduled batches and publishes results back to PI — so engineering teams evaluate models against the whole operating record.
A fleet of orchestrated pipelines moving historian data into production volume reports, well-target syncs, and regulatory feeds — running daily in production, monitored and recoverable.
Operational dashboards giving engineering teams live insight into plant health: steam generation, casing-gas quality, diluent burn, and NOx emissions.
MCP servers that let AI assistants safely query a process historian and data lakehouse in plain language, with authentication and cost governance built in.
ARC — Alberta Rose Controls Inc. — is the consulting practice of Luke Cummings, a software and operations-technology specialist based in Calgary. The name reflects where the practice started: two decades in industrial control systems, first programming DCS, PLC, and HMI platforms, then administering DCS infrastructure at operating facilities in the Alberta energy sector.
Today the practice is focused on what sits above the control layer — production-grade software, data pipelines, and AI tooling built directly against plant systems. The control-systems background is what makes that work fit: the software is designed by someone who has programmed, run, and depended on the systems it connects to.
If you're working on a problem in this space, send a note with a line or two about it — we'll reply with an honest read on whether ARC is the right fit.
