Manufacturing Solutions
Some projects are bigger than a single shop-built assembly. They're a coordinated upgrade — a new automation cell tied into existing PLC infrastructure, a line retrofit that touches mechanical, fluid power, and controls, a turnkey delivery that takes a customer's plant from "what we have today" to "what we need next year." That's what we mean by Manufacturing Solutions.
The scope, plainly stated.
- 01Project management with a single point of accountability
- 02Mechanical, fluid-power, and controls engineering under one roof
- 03Build, test, and FAT in our Tampa shop before shipment
- 04Site survey, install coordination, and commissioning
- 05Integration with existing PLC, MES, and quality systems
- 06GMP/AS9100/IATF documentation packages where applicable
- 07Operator training, runbooks, and 30-day on-site or remote support
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
Kickoff with all stakeholders
Engineering, operations, quality, maintenance, IT — at the table from day one. We don't run separate tracks for each group.
- 02step
Engineered design
CAD, P&ID/electrical schematics, controls architecture, validation strategy if applicable. Your team reviews; we revise; we sign jointly before we cut metal.
- 03step
Build & FAT
Mock-up of the upstream and downstream interfaces in our shop. Real cycles before shipment. You're invited to witness.
- 04step
Install, commission, validate
On-site by our field team or in coordination with yours. IQ/OQ/PQ if regulated. Operator training. 30-day warranty period.
Where this service has actually run.
Cobot machine tending in a pharma fill-finish facility
The customer was facing a chronic skilled-operator shortage in a labor market where every nearby pharma site was bidding for the same people. Their downstream secondary packaging operation required four senior operators per shift to feed empty trays into a tray-erector and load filled vials into a cartoner, both at 120 trays per minute.
0.001" inspection on an aerospace fastener line
The customer's existing inspection process was a manual gauge-and-eyeball check on a 1-in-25 sample basis, with the rest going through on a process-capability assumption. Two recent customer audits flagged sampling-only inspection as a risk against the AS9100D rev D requirements being phased in.
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.
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.