Automation Solutions That Drive Results

Consulting Custom Control Systems Legacy Upgrades
Troubleshooting Continuous Support

Problem Solvers

We solve complex control challenges others can't crack.

Proven Results

Real projects. Measurable outcomes. Lasting impact.

30+ Years Experience

Decades of hands-on automation expertise you can trust.

Built for Reliability

Systems engineered for performance, uptime, and safety.

Partner Approach

We become part of your team and your long-term partner.

CONTROL SYSTEM SERVICES

Practical automation built around the way your plant actually runs.

CSS supports manufacturers, OEMs and integrators with controls programming, troubleshooting, modernization and industrial networking. The focus is not replacing technology for the sake of replacing it. The focus is reliability, maintainability and getting the right return from the work.

30+Years of hands-on industrial controls experience
Capabilities

From field device to plant network.

One controls problem rarely lives in only one layer. CSS works across the stack.

PLC

PLC & HMI Programming

New development, conversions, troubleshooting and integration across legacy and current platforms.

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NET

Industrial Networks

EtherNet/IP, ControlNet, DeviceNet and migration planning.

DRV

Drives & Motion

VFD upgrades, troubleshooting and control integration.

LEG

Legacy Support

SLC, PLC-5 and aging HMI systems that still have to run tomorrow morning.

SEC

OT Cybersecurity

Segmentation, exposure reduction, remote-access strategy and practical plant-floor risk reviews.

Legacy → Modern

Modernize the weak points first.

Aging control systems do not always need a forklift upgrade. CSS can help identify what is actually creating risk, preserve what still has value, and phase the rest around production and budget.

01
Assess

Inventory controllers, HMIs, drives, I/O and networks. Find the parts most likely to hurt uptime.

02
Prioritize

Separate obsolete from merely old, then rank upgrades by business impact.

03
Plan

Build a migration path that works with shutdown windows, staffing and capital budgets.

04
Execute

Convert, test, commission and document with minimum disruption to production.

Selected Work

Problems solved in the real world.

Less glossy case study. More what broke, what changed, and what the operation gained.

01
Process Automation

Dairy Production Routing

Reworked product routing through multiple holding tanks to unlock more usable production capacity.
+37%Capacity
02
Emergency Support

Asphalt Plant Recovery

Diagnosed a week-long outage involving legacy Allen-Bradley SLC 5/04 controls and restored operation.
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03
Modernization

Packaging Machine Upgrade

Migrated aging SLC500, PanelView and legacy drive hardware to modern networked controls.
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Start Here

Got a controls problem that keeps getting kicked down the road?

Bring the ugly one. The weird intermittent fault. The machine nobody wants to touch. The obsolete network everyone is afraid to migrate.

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