TS Controls, an industrial automation integrator in Anderson, South Carolina, travels up I-85 for on-site controls work in Charlotte, Gastonia, Concord, Mooresville, and Statesville, and on the South Carolina side in Rock Hill and Fort Mill. We program and troubleshoot the PLCs, HMIs, drives, and robots in your plant, new or old.
Controls work for Charlotte-area plants
Plants around Charlotte make packaging, plastics, metals, textiles, and motorsports parts, and their PLCs and drives change as the products do. Work we can take on:
- HMI screen and recipe changes on FactoryTalk View and WinCC panels
- Machine builder handoffs, where a new machine has to talk to the plant's existing line PLC
- Drive replacements and parameter restores on PowerFlex and SINAMICS drives
- Network cleanup on EtherNet/IP and PROFINET lines that grew one device at a time
- Keeping SLC 500, PLC-5, and S7-300 systems running while a staged migration is planned
- Robot cell changes on KUKA, FANUC, and ABB, with the PLC side handled by the same team
The drive from Anderson
Charlotte is a little over two hours up I-85 from Anderson, so we agree on the outage window and the plan before the visit.
Platforms and software
- Allen-Bradley ControlLogix and CompactLogix in Studio 5000, and older PLC-5 and SLC 500 racks kept running
- Siemens S7-300 to S7-1500 in STEP 7 and TIA Portal, older Step 5 systems, WinCC HMIs, and SINAMICS drives
- KUKA, FANUC, and ABB robots, including offline programming before the outage
- Beckhoff TwinCAT 3 PLC and motion on EtherCAT machines
- Ignition screens, alarming, and history connected to your existing PLCs
Plants we've supported include Mercedes-Benz U.S. International, Tesla, and thyssenkrupp TKAE / TKAB. Mercedes-Benz U.S. International is in Vance, AL.
For integrators and machine builders
If you build machines or integrate lines and have more work than people, we can add PLC, HMI, and robot engineering to your project and work alongside your team. See engineering help for integrators, or startup support for machine builders.
How a Charlotte job is planned
- Files first. Send the project archive, panel photos, what the line is doing, and your outage window.
- Review. We read the files and ask the questions that would otherwise be asked on-site.
- Written plan. The changes, the outage time they need, and what we need from your team on the day.
- On-site in your window. Changes tested with your operators, then updated backups and notes left with maintenance.
Line down in the Charlotte area?
Call (877) 790-4697 and give us the plant, the line, and the platform; the number takes calls 24/7, subject to personnel availability. We aim to be on site within 4 hours locally and 24 hours stateside, subject to personnel availability. Some faults can be worked through remote support, so ask on the call.
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