Automation and Controls
We have a great respect and appreciation for those who strive for excellence in manufacturing. You balance change and complexity with an understanding that relatively small things can have a dramatic impact on production, performance, and profitability. And you pursue continuous improvement in order to grow – or even maintain – your market position. Polaris Automation offers a full complement of solutions, including manufacturing software, engineering services and plant floor hardware. We can help you achieve higher customer satisfaction with increased production efficiencies and lower production costs. We’ve been in this business since 1984, leading others, just like you, along the path to prepare for the digital factory of today. We take the charts, diagrams and acronyms and bring them to life. And we’ll stay with you every step of the way.
Services and Solutions
Attain the most from your operation by increasing throughput and efficiency by enhancing your legacy systems with new hardware, software, and programming upgrades.
Our approach to automation gives consideration to your specific goals and budget – we place emphasis on performance, maintainability, efficient implementation, and ongoing support to get you to the place of value faster and reduce your long-term cost of ownership.
We can envision, design, and build any automation panel-build project regardless of size and complexity.
We can envision, design, test, implement and validate any process operation.
We can identify operational shortcomings; then envision, design, test, implement and validate the necessary quality-improvement solution.
Power drawings, IO schematics, control panel assembly prints, field installation package. Experience with the following products – AutoCAD, E-Plan.
Legacy equipment upgrades, process enhancements, equipment integration. PLC experience with the following products – Rockwell, Siemens, Mitsubishi, Omron, Modicon, GE.
Operator interface dashboards and controls. Software experience with the following products – Ignition, WinCC, FactoryTalk View, Aveva InTouch, iFix.
Edge detection, barcode detection, gauging, pattern recognition. Experience includes – Keyence, Cognex, Banner.
Industrial Control Panels, UL Certification.
Programming to interface process controls with a robot. Integration experience with the following robots – GE Fanuc.
Single-axis, multi-axis controls. Experience with the following systems – Rockwell, ABB.