Controls expertise.
Where it counts.
Experienced controls and robotics support for integrators, machine builders, and end users across material handling, electronic-component assembly, welding, manufacturing, and machine tending. From retrofits, improvements, and bug fixes to commissioning, digital-twin simulation, and PLC, robot, vision, and SCADA development.
Your equipment.
Your standards.
Extra engineering horsepower.
A commissioning schedule that needs more hands. An existing machine that needs a change. A production issue that needs a fresh set of experienced eyes.
Custom Automation provides contract controls and robotics support where it is needed most. We work alongside your engineers, maintenance staff, and operations team—without adding another layer between the problem and the people solving it.
How we support your teamField & Emergency Support
Troubleshooting, in-field modifications, and practical help on existing production equipment, including palletizing pattern updates, vision-system fine-tuning, and advanced fault isolation.
Commissioning & Extra Capacity
Experienced support for OEMs, integrators, and machine builders when schedules get tight—from controls development and startup through commissioning, rate testing, punch-list closure, and production handoff.
Robotics & Machine Vision
Robot programming, vision-guided handling, line tracking, sorting, palletizing, depalletizing, and demanding 2D and 3D picking applications.
Controls & Plant Software
Rockwell PLC development, legacy-system retrofits, custom SCADA applications, HMI development, data integration, and plant software that connects equipment to production systems.
Simulation & Digital Twin
Custom digital twins built in industry-standard simulation platforms and purpose-built Unity environments for offline programming, rate studies, virtual commissioning, and automatic site code generation.
Technical Review & Consulting
Controls architecture reviews, practical upgrade paths, safety risk assessments, process improvement, and Lean Six Sigma analysis focused on reliability, throughput, and maintainability.
The job is not done
when the code compiles.
Real equipment brings real constraints: product variation, tight access, incomplete documentation, and a line that needs to run.
- Work within the existing machine and plant standards.
- Coordinate changes with the people running the equipment.
- Leave useful documentation and a clear handoff.
From a single cell
to the whole line.
Selected photographs reflect prior project experience, including work performed before Custom Automation.
Work through the
what-ifs. Offline.
Develop robot sequences, study reach and interference, and test production assumptions before commissioning. Use simulation to ask better questions—then validate the answers on the real system.
Simulation & digital twin
Plug into your team.
Get the work moving.
Define the work.
Review the equipment, platform, current issue, schedule, and what a successful handoff looks like.
Work with your people.
Support the project remotely or on-site, coordinate changes, and keep the right people informed.
Leave a maintainable system.
Verify the agreed scope, capture the changes, and give the next engineer something useful to work from.
Need another experienced engineer on the job?
Tell us what is running, what needs to change, and when you need support.