Custom Assembly
Most fluid-power and automation problems aren't solved by an off-the-shelf catalog item — they're solved by an assembly engineered for your application. Our shop has been building custom hydraulic power units, pneumatic manifolds, and fully-integrated automation cells for sixty-five years. Every assembly that leaves the floor is pressure-tested, instrumented, documented, and tied to a serial number we'll honor for the life of the unit.
The scope, plainly stated.
- 01Custom hydraulic power units (10–150 hp) with full instrumentation
- 02Cartridge-valve manifold blocks machined from billet aluminum or steel
- 03Pneumatic skid assembly with FRL clusters, valve banks, and air-prep
- 04Custom-fabricated automation cells: cobots, vision, guarding, controls
- 05Vacuum-system manifolds and end-effector assemblies
- 06Hose-and-fitting kitting for site-specific install jobs
- 07FAT (factory acceptance testing) before shipment, with documented results
- 08As-built drawings, parts schedules, and serial-number traceability
The methodology applied to this service.
Same principle on every engagement. Walk first, document second, rank third, implement fourth. The service determines what we’re looking for, not how we look.
- 01step
Scope on the floor
We start at your equipment, not your conference room. An application engineer walks the line, takes pressure readings or cycle data, and writes the spec from observation rather than from a wishlist.
- 02step
Design review with your team
We come back with CAD, hydraulic/pneumatic schematics, and a controls architecture. Your engineers and ours sign off jointly before we cut metal. Two design iterations are baked into the price.
- 03step
Build, test, document
Six to fourteen weeks in our shop. Every assembly gets a documented FAT. We invite you to witness the test, in person or via video. You receive an as-built drawing set and a parts schedule with the unit.
- 04step
Install, commission, hand off
Our field engineers install or oversee install. Your operators are trained on-site. We leave a runbook and stay on call for the first 30 days at no extra charge.
Where this service has actually run.
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.
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.
10× longer valve life on a citrus juicing line
The customer was burning through poppet-style solenoid valves on the FMC extractor finishers at an alarming clip — average mean time between failures of 38 days, sometimes as little as 26 days during peak season. Each failure took the affected extractor offline for 90 minutes, and during November–April that meant losing roughly 4,200 gallons of juice per incident at peak rates.
Questions we hear most
Have a problem on a line right now?
Tell us where it hurts. A senior application engineer will respond within one business day — same-day for true downtime emergencies.