Your plant runs
longer when we’re
on the team.
For sixty-five years we’ve helped Florida and Gulf Coast manufacturers automate, troubleshoot, and squeeze more profit from every line. Pneumatics, hydraulics, robotics, vision — and the engineering team to put it all together.
Capt. Senior application engineers on a routine plant walk at a phosphate processor near Lakeland, FL. Customer Profit Reinforcement® audit, day one of two.
We do two things.
We do them deeply.
Adams is a fluid-power distributor and a systems integrator. Two pillars of the same company, with the same engineers walking your floor. Most projects use one. The biggest projects use both.
Sixty-five years of pneumatic and hydraulic engineering — from a single push-to-connect fitting to a complete custom power unit.
Read the Fluid Power guide- 01Custom hydraulic power units · 10–150 hp
- 02Cartridge-valve manifold blocks
- 03Pneumatic skids & FRL clusters
- 04Compressed-air system audits
- 05Hydraulic fluid analysis & condition monitoring
- 06Pulse-valve retrofits for high-cycle duty
- 07Vacuum-system design
- 08Custom hose & fitting kitting
The methodology, in four moves.
Every engagement we’ve run for thirty years follows the same four-step framework. The deliverable changes with the project; the discipline doesn’t. The framework is service-marked. The thinking is open-source.
- 01step
Walk the floor
Two engineers, two days, on-site. We instrument what needs instrumenting and talk to the millwrights, not just the conference room. No sales team in tow.
- 02step
Document opportunities
Every finding is geo-tagged to a plant map, photographed, and cost-quantified. The deliverable is a structured opportunities list — not a sixty-page report nobody reads.
- 03step
Rank by ease & ROI
Each opportunity gets a $-per-year, an install-effort score, and an ROI-months estimate. The ranked list lets your team decide what to chase. No pressure to do everything.
- 04step
Implement & measure
Phase one is usually low-effort, high-ROI items. We resurvey after 90 days and verify the savings hit the meter. If they didn't, we keep working until they do.
Average audit takes 2 days on-site. Reports delivered within 10 business days. Fee credits against implementation work.
Three plants we’ve measurably made better.
Real outcomes from invoiced engagements. The numbers were verified by the customers; the narratives were written by the engineers who walked the floor.
$120k/yr in compressed-air savings
Plant engineering had been running the rotary-screw compressor house at 98% load for the better part of two years. The reliability team was watching loaded-hour curves climb, two of the four 200 hp units were lined up for top-end overhauls, and the capital request for a fifth compressor was already drafted at $340,000 plus install.
40% faster line changeovers with a UR cobot
Every SKU change on the variety-pack line meant 90 to 110 minutes of downtime: drain and flush, swap the change-parts kit, manually reposition the case packer guides, run a calibration loop on the labeler, and qualify the first 50 cases. Across 22 changeovers a week, that's roughly 35 hours of lost production every week — about 1,800 hours a year.
Custom hydraulic power unit doubles block-plant uptime
The block press's original 1980s-era hydraulic power unit was running on a heavily-modified 60 hp motor with a patchwork of three different pump generations in series. Cycle time had crept up from 14 seconds nominal to 19 seconds over five years, and the system was running 25 °F over its design oil temperature, accelerating seal wear.
We carry the lines you trust.
And we know them better than the rep.
Plants we know cold.
Five industries account for 80% of our work. Every plant is different; every industry has constraints we account for in the spec.
Food & Beverage Manufacturing
Washdown-ready fluid power and flexible automation for high-throughput packaging.
Phosphate
Fluid-power durability against abrasive, high-chloride, around-the-clock duty.
Citrus & Agriculture
Equipment durability through Florida heat, citrus oils, and seasonal-peak duty cycles.
Aerospace
Documented quality, AS9100D-aligned traceability, and the engineering rigor your customers' audits will demand.
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
GMP-validated automation cells with IQ/OQ/PQ documentation packages built in from kickoff.
Two days. Two hundred plant engineers. One conference.
The annual gathering of fluid-power and automation practice across the southeast — at our Tampa headquarters. Factory technical sessions, customer case-study deep-dives, and the in-person training cohort that built our customer relationships.
Locally based specialists. Same-day site visits across our service area.
Four offices, twenty-seven engineers, and a 24-hour-response field-support footprint that covers Florida, Alabama, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic.
Tell us where it hurts.
A senior application engineer will reach back within one business day to schedule a no-cost plant audit. For downtime emergencies, call our 24/7 field-support line.