Industries We Serve
Technology, automation, data, and engineered systems for ethanol plants and biofuel producers focused on reliable production, better visibility, and long-term plant performance.
Why Direct
Plant projects often reach beyond a single system. A controls upgrade may affect instrumentation, networks, production data, tank systems, or field equipment, making coordination just as important as the technology itself.
Direct brings automation, data management, OT, fabrication, and field expertise together under one team. That helps reduce handoffs, keep decisions aligned, and build around the technology and infrastructure already supporting your operation.
WHAT WE HANDLE
Whether you're modernizing controls, improving process performance, connecting plant data, or upgrading tank and fabricated systems, Direct supports the technology behind ethanol and biofuel production.
Modernize aging PLC, DCS, SCADA, and HMI systems with upgrade strategies built around production schedules, lifecycle risk, migration planning, uptime, and long-term support.
Improve operator visibility with SCADA and HMI systems designed around alarms, historian data, remote monitoring, process conditions, and critical production information.
Improve process stability, consistency, and throughput with loop analysis, sequencing, batch control, tuning, and advanced strategies for ethanol and biofuel production.
Improve tank measurement, inventory visibility, overfill protection, and system integration for storage and process tanks with modern radar gauging and connected monitoring.
Connect plant and production data through the AVEVA PI System to improve historian access, reporting, visibility, and support stronger operational decision-making.
Connect controls, historians, laboratory systems, databases, and business applications so production data moves reliably across connected plant and business systems.
Turn production data into dashboards, KPIs, trends, and reporting that help teams closely monitor performance, identify issues, and make better operating decisions.
Build control panels for plant upgrades, process equipment, and replacement systems with fabrication, wiring, testing, and documentation handled by one experienced team.
Our Advantage
Plant improvements have to work within the realities of production. Our teams plan around operating schedules, shutdown windows, existing equipment, and the people who’ll support the system after startup, helping projects move forward with less disruption, better coordination, and fewer surprises.












Let's Talk
Tell us what you’re working on, where you’re seeing challenges, or what you’re planning next. Our team can help identify the right expertise and a practical path forward.
(866) 583-3377
3405 N Louise Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57107
info@directcompanies.com
Move Forward
Planning an ethanol plant or biofuel facility upgrade, expanding production, or working through an existing system challenge? Bring the right technical expertise into the conversation early.
Use our free 20-point operational data assessment to uncover disconnected systems, manual reporting, visibility gaps, and opportunities to improve your operation.
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Use our free 20-point cybersecurity assessment to uncover security gaps, overlooked risks, and areas where stronger protection is needed.
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Use the free 10-point checklist to uncover reliability gaps, aging components, documentation issues, and modernization risks before they lead to unexpected downtime.
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Evaluate 20 areas across systems, infrastructure, data, security, and support to identify gaps and opportunities to improve.
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Plan your control panel project with fewer surprises. Get the free guide to organize key requirements and prepare for fabrication with confidence.
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Download the Emerson white paper on tank gauging accuracy, safety compliance, and modernization.