Replacing obsolete controls while developing a phased retrofit strategy to reduce risk and protect continuous cheese production. When obsolete controls threatened the long-term reliability of Tillamook Creamery's cheese production equipment, Concept Systems was...

Replacing outdated controls with a centralized fuel farm control system to improve visibility, efficiency, throughput, and safety. A fuel farm containing five storage tanks supported aircraft fueling as well as the loading and offloading of supply trucks. Its aging...

Engineering and implementing machine safety remediation for more than 80 identified hazards across an aluminum extrusion line. An aluminum manufacturer needed to address more than 80 safety hazards identified during a plant-wide safety assessment. Concept Systems...

Leveraging our experience as a Rockwell Automation Gold Level System Integrator to standardize process control with PlantPAx for a greenfield frozen potato processing facility. A global frozen potato supplier was building a greenfield processing facility while looking...

Combining six-axis robotics, 3D vision, automated welding, and production data to improve steel billet traceability, accuracy, and worker safety. Steel manufacturers like Nucor Steel rely on accurate billet identification to maintain traceability from casting through...

Retrofitting existing robots with 3D laser scanning to improve cake decorating accuracy, flexibility, and changeover efficiency. Rise Baking Company produces and decorates cakes for large supermarket chains. As customers requested increasingly intricate designs,...

Developing and deploying 30 high-speed robotic workcells across eight facilities to help Vestcom bring a new retail product to market. Vestcom provides shelf-edge pricing and promotional solutions to more than 70 percent of retail food, drug, and mass merchants in the...

Combining 3D machine vision, six-axis robotics, and custom tooling to automate the handling of heavy, randomly oriented parts. At a truck and axle manufacturing plant in North Carolina, operators manually unloaded heavy, irregular components from large bins before...

Integrating collision avoidance, process air, crane positioning, and hazardous-area controls to improve the accuracy, efficiency, and maintainability of an aircraft paint hangar. Painting a commercial aircraft requires precise coordination between painters, movable...

Upgrading crane and hydraulic controls aboard U.S. Coast Guard polar icebreakers to improve reliability, redundancy, diagnostics, and operator control. When the U.S. Coast Guard installed new crane hardware and hydraulic power units aboard its two polar icebreakers,...