Engineering
“Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all… good design must primarily serve people.”
– Thomas J. Watson
Engineering is, at its heart, a pro-human discipline – all about designing, testing, creating, and improving technologies to improve the quality and reach of human life. Industrial automation is a perfect example, liberating humans from dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs and providing a higher quality of living for everyone. We engineer industrial automation, applying experience and a creative eye to solve problems for the good of all. What can we create to serve you?
Research and Development
This is one of our favorite areas to work. It’s the place where new ideas come to life. We’ve worked with talented R&D departments and forward-thinking manufacturers to invent a better tomorrow – better data, better quality, easier to use. We have deep and broad industry experience combined with the enthusiastic optimism that fuels creativity. If you can see the need, we can help you meet the challenge.
Design
You’ve decided to automate a process, and now you’re met with the bleak stare of a blank page. Where do you start? How do you know what you need? We have the process to guide the design choices from start to finish. We can work with you to develop a specification for your process, design and build the automation, and finish with documentation and training. Larger integrators will often have canned solutions to automation challenges. That can mean something that’s over designed and under-performing for your application. We spend the time to understand your needs and customize our approach to serve you best. That often means time and cost savings and a happier end result.
Upgrades
Nothing lasts forever, but often a 30 year old machine still has good bones. What will you do when the PLC is obsolete? What happens if a servo drive fails and replacements can’t be found? Plan ahead! Controls upgrades can be very cost-effective, and make your machine maintainable again.
Do you have an older machine that could use to learn some new tricks? We can do that too!
Troubleshooting
Industrial automation lives at the intersection of many different technologies, and a person usually needs to understand several of them to solve a problem. When the machine stops doing that thing it’s supposed to do, it’s common to call a programmer to figure out what’s wrong, but there are so many things electrically, pneumatically, and mechanically that can contribute to automation behavior. A programmer is most useful if he/she understands those other systems and can think outside the laptop. We’ve got you covered there.
