Factory Automation Systems is a full-service systems integrator that provides turnkey automation solutions to manufacturing companies. OE designs and implements solutions with programmable controllers, manufacturing information systems, motion control and robotic systems. We serve customers from diverse industries – building products, food and beverage, consumer products, automotive, metals, and more.
With rare exception, a PLC is the cornerstone of each OE project, with applications ranging from machine control, material handling, process control, machine safety to robot cell management. Our engineers are fluent in PLC’s, and our experience is measured in thousands of projects with PLC’s from Rockwell Automation, Siemens, and others. We offer panel fabrication, HMI’s, networking, machine vision, auto ID, and onsite commissioning services to round out our turnkey solutions.
OE installs hundreds of axes of motion control each year, and our experience includes VFD’s, AC and DC coordinated drive systems, and servo controls. We implement material handling VFD’s, web handling, winders, printing presses, 50+ axes of coordinated servos, slitter positioning, and more. As with our PLC applications, we deliver numerous drives retrofits each year, updating obsolete technology and improving productivity.
Turning manufacturing data into useful Information has been a core OE capability since our very first project in 1992. Our application experience includes production monitoring, line coordination, traceability, routing & tracking and integration with plant business systems. We use software tools from Rockwell Automation, Inductive Automation, Wonderware, GE and Siemens, and we write custom code as needed. Our projects range from monitoring a single process up to plant-wide information solutions that are communicating with dozens of systems and collecting thousands of data points.