Chattanooga-area plants are a planned trip for TS Controls, an industrial automation integrator in Anderson, South Carolina. We take on PLC, HMI, drive, and robot work in Chattanooga, Cleveland, and Athens, and across the line in Dalton, Ringgold, and Calhoun.
Getting to Chattanooga
From Anderson, it is about four hours by I-85 and I-75, so on-site work in the Chattanooga area is planned ahead and scheduled around your outage window.
For faults that don't need hands on the machine, remote support set up with your IT team ahead of time lets an engineer connect instead of driving out, subject to personnel availability. For a plant this far from Anderson, it is worth setting up before you need it.
Industries around Chattanooga
The Chattanooga region makes a wide range of products: automotive parts, flooring and textiles in north Georgia, metals and castings, chemicals, packaging, and food and beverage. Controls work we can take on for plants like these:
- Changes to aging SLC 500, PLC-5, and S7-300 systems, and a staged migration plan made while the old rack still runs
- Speed and sequence changes on lines that run on PowerFlex, SINAMICS, or Kinetix drives
- Logic changes on older process equipment, with the existing interlocks documented and tested before the change goes live
- Robot cell support on KUKA, FANUC, and ABB, from touchup to a new part added to the program
- Program recovery and program backup for controllers with no copy on file
- Controls planning for a shutdown, with an outage-window plan written ahead of time
What we program
Siemens. S7-300 and S7-400 racks on STEP 7 / SIMATIC Manager and PROFIBUS, Step 5 where it is still in service, and S7-1200 and S7-1500 in TIA Portal, with WinCC and SINAMICS.
Allen-Bradley. PLC-5 and SLC 500 programs in RSLogix, ControlLogix and CompactLogix in Studio 5000, and the PowerFlex and Kinetix drives on the same network.
KUKA, FANUC, and ABB. Robot programming, offline programming, and the PLC handshake on the other side of the cell.
For machines on Beckhoff controls, see Beckhoff TwinCAT programming.
Plants we've supported include BMW Plant 10 in Greer, SC, Robert Bosch LLC in Charleston, SC, and Mercedes-Benz U.S. International in Vance, AL.
How a visit is planned
- Send the files. Zip the program, add photos of the panel and rack, and tell us what the line is doing and when it can stop.
- Review the scope. We read the files in Anderson and send back our questions and a written scope.
- Book the window. We set the visit around your outage, with the time on-site matched to the work.
- Sign off on the work. We test each change with your team, and maintenance keeps the updated backups and notes.
A crew that can diagnose a fault and take a backup may save you a trip. Our training days cover both, on your own equipment.
Line down near Chattanooga?
Call (877) 790-4697. You can call the line-down number 24/7, subject to personnel availability. We aim to be on site within 4 hours locally and 24 hours stateside, subject to personnel availability. At this distance, ask about remote help when you call.
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