Controls and automation engineering services

Controls Engineering Services. One Team From Panel to Go-Live.

Controls design, PLC and WCS programming, UL 508A panels, and on-site commissioning for mid-market warehouse, distribution, and manufacturing operations that need a line running in weeks.

Your conveyors, sorters, and scanners are only as good as the logic and wiring that tie them together. Our controls engineering services cover every layer between the motor starter and your WMS, delivered by the same team that installs the equipment.

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Controls Decide Your Timeline

Controls Are Where Automation Projects Stall

The steel usually shows up on schedule. The logic, the panels, and the handoffs between them are where go-live dates slip. Here's what keeps operations leaders up at night.

Four Vendors, No Owner

A typical project splits controls across a mechanical contractor, a panel shop, a PLC programmer, and a WCS vendor. When a divert misfires, each one points to the next. Working with a vendor that only writes code adds a fifth name to the email chain while your line still sits idle.

Logic Nobody Can Read

Inherited systems often run on undocumented rungs from an integrator who stopped answering the phone years ago. When the one person who understood the code leaves, every fault becomes a guess, and every change becomes a risk to the whole line.

Commissioning That Never Closes

Industrial controls engineering gets proven on the floor, not at a desk. Simulated I/O never shows you a photo-eye knocked out of alignment by a forklift or a merge that starves at peak. Without engineers on site, a short startup punch list turns into a long one.

Visibility Gaps

You can't optimize what you can't see. HMI screens that misreport controller state, and alarms that arrive without diagnostics, send your maintenance team hunting for faults the system already knows about.

Engineering Meets Daily Demands

Designed for the Reality of Your Production Floor

Controls and automation engineering services for conveyor systems, sorters, scanners, scales, and label applicators, scoped, built, and started up by one team under one roof.

Controls Design and Electrical Engineering

Scope, I/O lists, and network architecture get defined before a single panel is drawn. We produce electrical schematics, e-stop and safety zoning, and device layouts against the equipment you actually have, whether that is a new line or a system another integrator left behind.

PLC and HMI Programming

Structured logic with Ignition for HMI and SCADA where a supervisory layer is warranted. Our PLC and HMI programming engineers commission their own code, so the person who wrote the routine stands at the panel during go-live.

UL 508A Panel Fabrication

We build control panels in our own facility, wire them to the drawings we issue, and test them before they ship. Our custom fabrication shop also produces the brackets, mounting systems, and integration hardware that keep scanners and photo-eyes exactly where the logic expects them.

WCS Programming and WMS Integration

A WCS is what turns equipment into an integrated system. Some operations managers buy central controls & engineering services from two different vendors, but it’s not the ideal option. We build both. ControlPoint WCS bridges the gap between your WMS and physical equipment, and WMS-to-WCS communication is validated over RESTful APIs, Ethernet/IP, or Modbus before your first live wave.

Commissioning, Go-Live and Support

On-site commissioning and go-live support from the engineers who built the system, followed by 24/7/365 coverage, remote diagnostics, and flexible support plans sized to your operation. When a lane goes down at 2 AM on a Tuesday, the people who answer already know the code.

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Systems Automated for Controls Engineering

One Controls Engineering Firm for Every Layer of the Line

We don't hand over code and a punch list. We hand over a running line. One scope covers design, panels, programming, and installation, so what you approve on paper is what starts up on your floor.

- ControlPoint WCS for real-time routing and sortation control
- PLC and HMI programming commissioned by the engineers who wrote it
- UL 508A control panels fabricated in our own facility
- Mechanical and electrical installation by our integrated field crew
- 24/7/365 support with remote diagnostics

Why us

40+ Years of Warehouse Automation
645 Projects in the Last 4 Years
UL 508A Panels Built In-House
24/7/365 Support Coverage

Frequently Asked Questions

Controls engineering services cover the design, programming, and commissioning of the systems that run industrial equipment: PLC logic, HMI screens, control panels, electrical drawings, and safety circuits. In a warehouse, that means conveyors, sorters, scanners, scales, and label applicators.

A PLC controls individual pieces of equipment in milliseconds: a motor, a diverter, a photo-eye. A WCS sits above the PLCs and decides where each carton goes, based on the orders coming down from your WMS.

No. Our engineering services focus on material handling equipment only: conveyors, sorters, scanners, scales, and label applicators. We also provide the WCS software that coordinates these systems.

Yes. We audit the existing PLC code, panels, and drawings, document what is actually running, then rebuild or extend it in phases so production keeps moving. Undocumented controls left by a previous integrator are a common starting point.

The timeline depends on your project’s scope, equipment condition, and available documentation. Some integrated weighing, labeling, and sortation systems have reached on-site in under a week. We review your requirements and agree on your project schedule before work begins.

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Let's talk about controls engineering and services that run the line you have today and scale to the one you're planning to have in the near future.

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