A turnkey warehouse automation project touches mechanical installation, electrical wiring, PLC programming, control panel fabrication, and warehouse control system (WCS) software. Split those across four separate companies and your project manager becomes a full-time coordinator, chasing whichever vendor is behind schedule that week and mediating the finger-pointing when something doesn't work between two systems.
Systems Automated started as an electrical contractor wiring conveyor systems in 1983, and added mechanical installation, controls engineering, and in-house software development in the decades since. The same team that designs a system today also builds, wires, programs, and commissions it, which is what makes turnkey warehouse services actually turnkey rather than a marketing label on a subcontracted job.
Not every project fits an off-the-shelf bracket or panel enclosure. Our manufacturing and fabrication team handles concept, design, prototyping, and finished production in-house, at our own facility, so a custom component doesn't add a second vendor and a second delivery date to your project.
When a system calls for something that doesn't exist in a catalog, we design it, build it, and install it ourselves, rather than sourcing it out and hoping the fit is right the first time.
Installing conveyors, sensors, and control panels solves half the problem. Something still has to tell all of it what to do. ControlPoint WCS is our warehouse control system, the middleware layer that sits between your WMS and the equipment on the floor, routing product, triggering scanners and label applicators, and reporting performance in real time.
For operations that need a faster path to automation, SLAMPoint is a self-contained scan, label, apply, and manifest unit built to be wheeled into a facility and running the same day, without the fixed installation and teardown cost of a traditional system as your needs change.
Because we write this software in-house rather than licensing it from a third party, a turnkey warehouse automation project through Systems Automated never depends on someone else's release schedule or support queue.
Coordinating separate mechanical, electrical, controls, and software vendors is what typically stretches a warehouse automation project from weeks into quarters. Each company only owns its own piece of the job, so when something breaks between two systems, the finger-pointing starts before the fix does. A single-source partner changes that dynamic in a few concrete ways:
Not every warehouse turnkey solutions provider designs and builds its own control panels or writes its own WCS software. Systems Automated does both in-house, which is what lets one project manager and one point of contact see a job through from first drawing to go-live.
Support doesn't stop at installation. We stay connected to every system we deliver, because we're the ones who know it inside and out.
Flexible Support Plans
Support tiers range from remote troubleshooting during business hours up to scheduled on-site visits, so you can match coverage to how critical the system is to your operation.
Built-In Partnership
We support every system we deliver ourselves. There is no separate vendor to call when something needs attention six months or six years after go-live.
It means one company owns every discipline the project needs: mechanical installation, electrical wiring, controls engineering, panel fabrication, and WCS software, rather than you managing separate contracts and schedules for each piece yourself.
With separate vendors, each company is only responsible for its own scope, so a problem at the boundary between two systems, for example between the conveyor wiring and the software controlling it, can become a dispute over whose fault it is. With a turnkey partner, one team designed, built, and is accountable for all of it.
Scope typically covers system design, UL 508A control panel fabrication, mechanical and electrical installation, PLC and WCS programming, on-site commissioning, and go-live support, with an ongoing support plan afterward. Custom fabrication is handled in-house when a project needs hardware that doesn't exist off the shelf.
Timelines depend on system size and integration complexity, and whether installation needs to be phased around a facility that's already operating. Right-sized projects run in weeks, not quarters, because the same team handling design also handles the build.
Projects are typically quoted as a combined design and installation fee scoped to your specific system, with an ongoing support contract available afterward. Because every warehouse layout, product mix, and equipment list is different, pricing is set per project rather than off a fixed price list.
Turnkey warehouse projects work best when one team owns the outcome from the first drawing through go-live and beyond. Whether you're an e-commerce fulfillment operation scaling for peak volume, a 3PL provider automating a new contract, or a manufacturing line adding automated material handling, our team can scope the right system for your floor.
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