Manufacturing in Spartanburg County runs along I-85 and I-26: automotive plants and their suppliers, packaging, and process plants. TS Controls, a controls and robotics integrator based in Anderson, SC, about an hour down I-85, takes on-site work at plants in Spartanburg, Greer, Duncan, Lyman, Wellford, and the towns around them. The work covers PLCs, HMIs, drives, networks, and industrial robots, from programming and troubleshooting to commissioning, on whatever platform your line already runs.
Automotive is where we started
Our background is the automotive body shop: body-in-white framing and spot weld, hemming and roller cells, press shop handling, and the PLC logic that holds a multi-robot cell together. For a supplier in Spartanburg County, that background matters: we understand the launch schedules, model-year changes, and uptime expectations an automaker puts on its suppliers, because we have worked on the OEM side of them. Plants we have supported include BMW Plant 10 in Greer, SC, along with Robert Bosch LLC, Volvo, Tesla, and Mercedes-Benz U.S. International.
The same skills carry over to the packaging, plastics, textile, chemical, and general manufacturing plants in the area. If the line runs on Siemens or Allen-Bradley PLCs, or KUKA, FANUC, or ABB robots, we can help.
Robot and PLC work in one team
Many cells in the Spartanburg area pair one maker's PLC with another maker's robots. When the handshake between them times out, the PLC side and the robot side can each point at the other. We program both halves, the Siemens or Allen-Bradley cell logic and the KUKA, FANUC, or ABB robots, with offline programming so the changes are ready before your outage window opens. If weld touchups keep coming back, look at our Industry 5.0 pilot.
Platforms we program
- Siemens. S7-300 racks in STEP 7, S7-1500 and S7-1200 in TIA Portal, and Step 5 where an S5 is still running, with WinCC screens, SINAMICS drives, and PROFINET.
- Allen-Bradley / Rockwell. ControlLogix and CompactLogix in Studio 5000, PLC-5 and SLC 500 in RSLogix, FactoryTalk View HMIs, Kinetix motion, and PowerFlex drives.
- Robots. KUKA, FANUC, and ABB, from single-robot stations to multi-robot cells, with offline programming.
- Networks. EtherNet/IP, PROFIBUS, DeviceNet, and PROFINET.
Typical jobs for Spartanburg-area plants
- Changeovers for a new model year or part: updated logic, new robot paths, and HMI changes, all tested before production starts on them
- Chasing intermittent faults, robot-to-PLC handshake timeouts, and dropped communication
- Extra stations, devices, or remote I/O on a line that is already in production
- Commissioning and launch support when equipment goes in or a line moves
- Moving off PLC-5, SLC 500, or S7-300 in stages (legacy PLC migration)
- Program backup and version control, so the next fault starts from a known-good file
- Fitting the controls work into a shutdown (outage planning)
Areas we cover
Spartanburg · Greer · Duncan · Lyman · Wellford · Boiling Springs · Inman · Gaffney · and the rest of the Upstate, with Greenville next door and our home base in Anderson. Past the Upstate, we also work across the Southeast and take on-site work nationwide.
How a job works
- Send the packet. Use the quote form on this page or our contact page to send the program or project archive, robot backups if robots are involved, what the line is doing, and when it can stop.
- Evaluation. We read the files, and when it matters we look at the cell in person first, so the first visit is spent on the fix, not on guessing.
- Plan and quote. A written scope that fits the job. We keep the scope honest, and we never trade away safety to shorten it.
- On-site work. Done inside your outage window, on nights or weekends if that is when the cell is free.
- Handover. Tested logic, fresh backups, and notes your maintenance team can pick up from.
Line down?
When production has stopped, phone instead of emailing. The line-down number, (877) 790-4697, can be called 24/7, subject to personnel availability. Whether anyone can be on-site, and when, depends on who is available, and we'll tell you honestly what we can do. How line-down support works.
Planning a job or asking for a quote? Email sales@ts-controls.com, or call the office line, (877) 524-6674, Monday–Friday, 9:00am–5:00pm Eastern.
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