Flexible, Scalable Automation is Vital to the Pharmaceutical Industry
Robotics systems have been a part of the pharmaceutical industry for nearly half a century to manage the mass processes of sampling and testing drug candidates, and those drugs ready for distribution into the healthcare system. Fast forward to today, and automation technology is so common within the pharmaceutical industry it now bleeds over into patient testing and research, commercial pharmacy procedures, patient medication administration, and more.
With the enormous pressure on the pharmaceutical industry to continue to discover and develop new drugs, competition is now an endemic part of healthcare research. Automating repetitive processes like counting, batching, sorting, and packaging allows a much higher throughput while eliminating human error. Higher processing capacity coupled with well-documented and validated data are values now at the forefront of pharmaceutical logistics, especially since COVID.
The 2020 pandemic and the ensuing explosion of the e-commerce market changed how the entire healthcare industry worked, and industrial medicine was no different. Previously, the field was primarily B2B-driven. But with patient convenience and access taking center stage, automation has gone from beneficial to vital for pharmaceutical entities.
A recent survey of IT buyers by Bain revealed that, post-COVID, 80% of companies have or are planning to up their automation capabilities, but that less than half of them will likely meet their productivity goals, which is why the automation and control system company they use needs to understand the dynamic nature of the medical field, and all the factors involved in an integrated robotics system.
Understanding a Pharmaceutical Facility’s Automation Needs
Amongst the production needs of drug manufacturers and medical research facilities include:
(1) the ability to rule out potential drug candidates quickly and effectively while remaining FDA-compliant
(2) surety that their IT system is secure enough that their intellectual property won’t be compromised
(3) that the data these automated systems put out is easily monitored, read and analyzed.
FDA requirements are extremely stringent in the medical field. The drug development process requires several assays to be tested before moving a new medicine to human trials. Automation streamlines these processes:
- Removing the need to manually test a drug’s absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion rates speeds the elimination process exponentially.
- Streamlining strict clean room procedures and integrating the robotics equipment with a comprehensive monitoring system improves the sanitizing process by keeping the clean room consistent and reducing the human labor needed.
- Integrated control systems gather, record and allow real-time user access to all the automated systems in a medical facility, eliminating holes and mistakes in documentation and validation processes.
IT design is an integral piece of pharmaceutical automation systems. Medical manufacturers, whether it’s vaccines, medications or devices, need all-encompassing cybersecurity to protect the integrity of their processes/products as well as other proprietary assets like recipes, research notes and trial data. IT systems need to be as flexible as they are impenetrable so that the facility remains secure even as their robotics systems continue to develop and scale.
A pharmaceutical company automating their processes also requires robust information management systems. In medicine, there are complex relationships between different sets of data; researchers and engineers need a control system that allows for a wide-angle view of various sets of data to accommodate for the intricacies of analysis.
Integrated controls for automated equipment offers safety monitoring, remote access, rapid discovery and response to compliance problems, and proactive operational maintenance. Pharmaceutical automation companies can create integrated systems that allow users to analyze operations in precise, readable ways. E Tech Group engineers utilize the latest in automation software when designing a building’s robotics and control systems.
Staying Ahead of the Production Curve with Flexible Robotics
Digital automation technology is developing as rapidly as pharmaceutical manufacturing, which means that the applications of robotics and AI in industrial and commercial pharmaceuticals have proliferated. In addition to benefits associated with processes, pharmaceutical automation can be applied in a number of other operations.
With regard to pharmaceutical logistics, automation can simplify administrative operations:
- Finance: accounts payable/receivable, payroll, tax processes, reporting, bank and intercompany payments/receipts, expense analysis and reporting
- HR: time records and validation, master employee data management, expense management, compliance tracking and training.
- IT: help desk and testing management, server and security monitoring
- Planning: data analytics and management, inventory management and demand forecasting, procurement data management, supplier and contractor management
With regard to the process of developing, producing and distributing a drug, automation reduces or eliminates the need for human labor in:
- Dosing (granule, powder, liquid)
- Packaging (sorting, counting, filling, bottling)
- Processing systems (granulation, blending, extrusion, etc)
- Tablet manufacturing (compression, encapsulation, coating, etc)
- Traceability (product tracking, RFID labeling, quality management, etc)
Many of these repetitive tasks are completed in conveyor and sorting equipment which, when automated, amplify throughput in transferring, inspection, grouping, and rejection – all key aspects of keeping a tight leash on quality control for outgoing products.
As drug trials, developments and approvals expand, so, too, will medical manufacturers need to expand their capabilities. They’ll need to produce more, and they’ll need to be able to produce an increasing number of different products. This will require adaptable robots and intuitive control systems that optimize a facility’s ability to outrun growing competition without compromising the quality of their laboratory and manufacturing processes.
Our automation partners at Rockwell and Siemen’s offer automation software specifically designed for the needs of the pharmaceutical industry. Rockwell’s PharmaSuite® MES offers end-to-end coverage for a facility’s processes with a design focused on efficiency and scalability. In the same vein, Siemen’s SIMATIC SIPAT PAT allows for continuous manufacturing, increasing output by 30% and reducing operational costs by 10-20%.
Benefits of Automating Pharmaceutical Facilities
The advantages of automating a medical production facility cannot be understated. Every type of pharmaceutical entity – from a drug giant to a small medical device startup – can harness the power of robotics automation to improve their operations. Benefits of building-wide automation include:
- Accuracy: There is no performance curve for things like mixing, stirring, tableting, weighing, etc. Automation eliminates human error and subsequently product defects.
- Sterility: Less human contact with the pharmaceutical components leads to less contamination.
- Efficiency: Automation speeds production and can allow a facility to transition to continuous processing.
- Visibility: An integrated control system gives transparent access to data, allowing problems to be identified and remedied quickly.
- Analytics: Access to data and user-friendly HMIs allow for data analytics that can inform on inefficiencies in processes workflow, etc, as well as help plan for and predict changes.
- ROI: An automated pharmaceutical facility will see energy costs fall, waste reduced, throughput increased, quality improved, and need for labor reduced.
Challenges the Pharmaceutical Industry Faces with Automation
Implementing building automation at a pharmaceutical facility affects more than production quality and throughput. And biology and chemistry are vastly complex fields of science; not every process is as easily automated as another.
The pharmaceutical industry and the companies designing their automated systems will face growing pains they’ll need to face collaboratively. Just as in any clinical trial, all the variables will have to be managed properly in order for a medical entity to achieve its quality and productivity goals:
- Automated processes will need to be scalable.
- Automation technology will need to encompass increasingly more complex processes.
- Pharmaceutical companies will need to reorganize job structure to compensate for labor shortages and transition employees to different positions.
- Robotics will need to increase the learning capabilities of its software.
- Subjective analysis of skilled human labor will need to work with the objective analyses of AI.
- Systems will need to be adaptable to accommodate both new treatments and novel applications of existing treatments.
Futureproof Your Pharmaceutical Facility with Scalable Automation
Healthcare research and production facilities require flexible, scalable automation solutions to keep up the rapid process of drug sampling, testing, counting, and manufacturing. E Tech Group’s extensive experience in industrial life sciences allows us to offer pharmaceutical clients leading-edge automation integration and control system design that keeps them competitive and cost-efficient.
The benefits that state-of-the-art facility automation has to offer pharmaceutical companies make robotic systems a must for a medical products manufacturer to successfully pivot in this evermore consumer-driven field. When it comes to the field of industrial medicine, change is a constant reality. And as digital technology continues to improve, so, too, will our ability to create, produce and distributed life-changing medications and life-saving treatments to consumers.
E Tech Group is a nationwide pharmaceutical automation company with capabilities across a wide variety of life science fields, including emerging biotechnologies. We design and implement robust, adaptable control and IT systems that keep your documentation thorough and your processes validated, so you can stay at the forefront of drug research and development.
The Importance of Adaptability in the Industrial Robotics Sector
Automation systems are predicted to account for 25% of capital spending in the industrial sector within the next five years, with CPG and logistics and fulfillment predicted to spend the most. At the same time, the automotive sector is staring down the barrel of EVs and how they will affect automated manufacturing, and e-commerce is increasing the demand for mobile robots.
There’s a lot going on in industrial robotics. We’re seeing automation spread across all sectors of industry, with the most common applications of automation technology being palletizing, material handling, counting, and sorting. And with the advent of mobile robots, we’re also seeing the possible applications of robotics proliferate.
With this new automation technology evermore available and constantly developing, the major obstacle that arises is actually implementing this new technology. While new manufacturing facilities may be able to start from scratch, existing companies need innovative, flexible and adaptive implementation of robotic automation to truly unlock their potential.
Automation Helps Manufacturers Work Around Labor Obstacles
Manufacturers today face logistical hurdles to overcome when it comes to human labor. It’s widely acknowledged there is higher demand than supply of human capital. Couple this shortage with the inherent problems and inconsistency that come with human error – especially in repetitive tasks – and it’s easy to see why automation is the best solution.
4D machine vision technology has revolutionized the field of industrial robotics, offering automated options for processes like counting, palletizing and identifying surface defects like porosity in metals manufacturing. It has increased robot processing speeds, enhanced safety via obstacle identification and reroute, and boosted their adaptability in terms of environmental and task-based changes.
As well, AI software focused on machine response has made collaborative and mobile robots much more adaptable and flexible, making that theory of how useful robotic automation could be into an applicable reality. AI software for industrial robots has made them capop0abl0mve of completing more complex tasks, planning and decision-making, and performing predictive maintenance. It’s this software that also expands robots’ ability to cooperate and interact with human workers.
Common Types of Industrial Robotic Process Automation
There are several types of industrial robots, each with different applications and different approaches to human-machine interaction:
- Articulated (multi-axis and complex)
- Cartesian (xyz linear)
- Collaborative (direct human interaction, simple to complex)
- Cylindrical (vertical and slide)
- Delta/Parallel (pick/place)
- Polar (cast and mold)
- SCARA (lateral)
As well, many warehouse-style facilities like inventory, distribution, storage, or data centers, are beginning to incorporate autonomous robots. These robots use vision tech and machine learning to move around the facility and complete tasks on their own, completely replacing the need for a worker to store/retrieve difficult-to-find items.
And robotics can be applied to nearly every facet of a company’s operations:
- Order fulfillment: receiving and processing orders, picking and packing products, shipping orders to customers
- Inventory management: inventory tracking, forecasting, replenishment
- Manufacturing: production planning, quality control, machine maintenance
- Customer service: responding to customer inquiries, processing customer orders, resolving customer issues
- Accounting and finance: accounts payable, accounts receivable, financial reporting
- Human resources: payroll processing, onboarding new employees, managing benefits
Automation Companies Help Manufacturers Overcome Robot Obstacles
Just as there are human labor obstacles to navigate when adopting robotic systems, manufacturers also face automated labor obstacles at the front end of the process: implementation. Humans need to be even more adaptable than the robots they use; the perception of change is a significant pitfall when it comes to a company’s decision on whether or not to utilize robot automation systems.
There’s another facet to that adaptability, though, and it needs to happen on the part of the control system integrator. Robotics automation companies need to understand the unique goals of each manufacturer and design an integrated control system that fits into the operational culture of that company. This requires experienced, creative engineers that involve people every step of the way – from initial assessment to turnkey implementation, training and ongoing support.
The relationship between manufacturing client and system integrator is all-important when it comes to adopting automated systems and integrating robots with their human resources. Since this perceptual and physical reorganization is such a bottleneck to the expansion of robotic automation, partnering with a system integrator known for their effective, leading-edge automation services is key to riding the front of the robotics wave.
Cybersecurity is Key to Successful Robotics Implementation
While the shift to digital has already brought IT to the forefront of operational security in the industrial sector, the shift to automation has compounded its importance. IIoT and robots need to be integrated on a network as well as a cloud, and this leaves companies susceptible to system failures caused by bad actors.
These are hazards that can be circumvented with a threefold approach to IT management for robotics automation: thorough risk assessments, advanced cybersecurity measures, and redundant system integration that ensures the operator is always aware of the status of their system.
Manufacturers need to partner with automation firms known for their specialized IT/OT engineers and adept custom system integration in order to ensure the security of their robotic systems. Control system integrators who partner with elite automation companies like Rockwell, AVEVA, Siemens, and Allen Bradley are able to offer clients secure automation system solutions that utilize the latest in scalable, state-of-the-art robotics control design.
Collaborative & Mobile Robots Need to Interface with the Workforce
Perhaps just as important as the quality of the robots and automation system you implement is the quality of the human-machine interfacing. The people running your facility need to understand how to interact with robots, especially when dealing with collaborative and mobile robots.
Truly implementing robotic automation isn’t about replacing human labor, but streamlining operations and allowing human capital the space they need to perform more critical tasks, avoiding repetitive and/or dangerous ones. Robots can supplement human labor shortages, collaborate with critical human labor, and drastically cut the costs associated with time-consuming repetitive tasks and human error.
E Tech Group automation engineers involve our clients’ key players at every step of the process, whether it’s an end-to-end project or replacing one piece of obsolete equipment with robotic automation. Mass retraining on how to interact with or alongside robots, as well as the integrated control system, allows clients to best utilize this cutting-edge technology, improving their operations in the process.
Operational Benefits of Implementing Robotics Automation
Incorporating robotics into mechanized processes has potentially limitless implications for a manufacturer’s present and future viability. These include:
- Increased productivity: Robots can work faster and more accurately than humans.
- Improved quality: Robots can ensure consistent quality in production.
- Reduced costs: Robots can help to reduce costs associated with labor, materials and energy.
- Improved safety: Robots can be used to perform dangerous or repetitive tasks.
- Greater flexibility: Robots can be easily reprogrammed to perform different tasks.
In short – robotics automation can supercharge a manufacturer’s capabilities in the present, and future-proof operations scalability and labor limitations. However, for these benefits to be fully-realized, control system integrator and client must incorporate the values we’ve discussed:
- Thorough assessments, analysis and planning should inform actions of all relevant parties from project start to finish.
- Risks must be identified and analyzed so the automation company can design a system with redundant security features that minimize cybersecurity vulnerabilities. For every automated piece of equipment a facility adds – robot or not – the system becomes more vulnerable. Integrator and client must work closely to develop a security plan.
- During project development and system design, staff from shop floor to top floor should be included – keeping everyone informed throughout a robotics upgrade helps avoid pitfalls related to the psychology of change.
- Prior to full implementation, the system integrator must provide comprehensive training on the new robots and automated system design. This helps avoid pitfalls that stem from unfamiliarity with a new system. The automation company upgrading the system and control panels should focus on creating user-friendly HMIs that can easily be accessed and configured on the floor.
- Ongoing system support by the integration contractor on-premise and remotely will help smooth the rest of the bumps in the road that are a natural consequence of transitioning to robotics.
E Tech Group: Innovative, Disruptive Automation System Integration for Robotics
As the field of industrial robotics progresses and proliferates, manufacturers need control system solutions that make the most of this state-of-the art automation technology. Robotics automation companies need to be just as adaptable as the equipment they’re automating, with reliable control system design that allows for scale while adhering to strict industry standards.
E Tech Group is one of the largest control system integrators in North America, offering robotics automation services to a diverse group of industrial clients who want to expand their capabilities while remaining flexible for inevitable developments in automation technology. Our robotics clients can expect intuitive control system design, cybersafe integrated automation systems, training, and ongoing system support.
Plan for the future of your manufacturing enterprise by planning for the future of industrial robotics.
Alternative Proteins Require a New Kind of Food Automation
As the food and beverage industry turns towards ethical, more sustainable production, the emerging alternative protein market is changing the fundamental processes of getting “meat” to market. As a result, manufacturing facilities are presented with new challenges for existing equipment and control systems.
Automation System Integration in Food & Beverage Production
Automation is an integral part of the food and beverage industry. Automation processes like mixing, batching, pouring, and packaging frees up human labor for more important tasks like development and testing. And while alternative meats may look and taste like animal-based meats, their production doesn’t. The automated hardware and the control system software that manages alternative protein production require more capable, robust, secure, and precise plant-wide control design.
The food production industry at-large is varied, requiring tailored automation solutions that meet the strict regulations of organizations like the FDA and USDA. Alternative protein production adds a new layer to those parameters, bringing additional challenges for manufacturing automation and systems integration.
E Tech Group’s extensive experience in the industry keeps us poised to help alternative protein clients of all kinds, including:
- Cultivated meats
- Insect-based proteins
- Mushroom-based proteins
- Plant and algae-based proteins
Our capabilities include new integrated automation system standups as well as control system retrofits and upgrades for existing facilities. Alternative meat automation presents both opportunities and obstacles that E Tech Group control system engineers strategically navigate.
Producing Plant-Based Proteins is Different than Traditional Meat
There are significant differences in how meat is processed and packaged versus how plant-based and cell-cultured proteins are produced. One challenge alternative protein manufacturers encounter is the number of ingredients required. Binders, stabilizers and other ingredients that affect texture and taste are necessary to make plant-based proteins taste like meat, which means extra procurement, storage, safety and processing concerns traditional meat production simply doesn’t face.
Along with this, another major difference with alternative protein production is that the process is an assembly, where traditional meat processing is a disassembling process. However, this difference is a key opening for automation to allow the alternative protein industry to compete.
Where traditional meat processing requires mostly manual labor and deals with irregularly-sized materials of varying quality, alternative protein has control over the consistency of its materials because the product is created via batch processing.
How Do Batch Control Systems Apply to Alternative Proteins?
Currently, batching is endemic to the cultivated meat industry, as it can be applied to any type of alternative protein in multiple ways. For instance:
- Plant-based meat is typically produced in batches. The ingredients are mixed together, then the mixture is cooked and extruded into the desired shape.
- Fermented proteins are produced by growing microorganisms in a nutrient broth. The microorganisms produce proteins, which are then harvested and purified.
- Cultivated meat is produced by growing animal cells in a bioreactor. The cells are fed nutrients and allowed to grow and multiply. The cells are then harvested and processed into meat products.
But batch control also comes with obstacles. It’s less efficient and more expensive than continuous processing. However, an automation company adept in batch control systems and industry standards like S88 can help producers eliminate these obstacles, allowing manufacturers to take full advantage of the benefits state-of-the-art automation for alternative meats has to offer.
Logistical Advantages of Automation for Alternative Meats
Automation solutions for this new sector of the food and beverage industry provide logistical advantages:
- Ensure consistent adherence to FDA and USDA regulations, as well as the Food Safety Modernization Act
- Free up skilled labor for development and control tasks
- Further minimize negative environmental impacts of protein production
- Reduce production costs to keep price points competitive with traditional meat
- Scale production without repeated disruptive facility retrofits
- The ability for traditional meat processing plants to expand their capabilities
Operational Benefits of Customized Automation System Integration for Alternative Meats
E Tech Group’s alternative protein clients can expect automation systems that utilize the best in control system software, including MES implementation and DCSs like PlantPAx and DeltaV. Our robust automation systems offer end-to-end coverage for all your processes:
- Robotics
- Ingredient handling and prep
- Mixing
- Forming and shaping
- Packaging and labeling
- Sensors
- Monitor production processes
- Data collection for key parameters (temp, pH, pressure)
- Machine learning
- Real-time sensor data
- Pattern identification
Our IT/OT services, such as risk assessment and cybersecurity measures that ensure your formulas, recipes and plant operations are never susceptible to bad actors. Assimilated control systems capable of integrating all your facility’s processes offers increased efficiency, better quality control, increased production, and reduced time to market. They key is that these systems are built strategically and completely customized to the needs of the client.
Regulatory Challenges of Plant Protein & Cultured Meat Production
While the entire food and beverage manufacturing industry requires technology and procedure that firmly adheres to FDA and USDA regulations, alternative protein manufacturers encounter additional challenges. Namely, that the rigorous and specific rules set out for traditional meat production don’t yet exist for plant-based and cultured proteins. Startups will need intuitive integrated control solutions that allow for flexibility and scaling as the industry develops.
Automation creates an opportunity to remove all human error from repetitive tasks like quality control and testing. This will be especially critical as numerous alternative protein producers scale up production, ensuring they remain compliant with any contemporaneous regulations, no matter their production capacity. This also holds true for traditional meat processing facilities who are expanding their capabilities to include plant-based proteins.
The key to overcoming these obstacles of uncharted territory, strict regulations, real-time product evolution, and scalability is to partner with the right automation company. A robust, redundant, cutting-edge automation system will offer tangible benefits in the present and continue to support development, flexibility and expansion in the future.
E Tech Group: Tailored Automation & Integration for the Alternative Protein Industry
It’s estimated that by 2027, the alternative protein industry will be worth over $27 billion, and will comprise just over 10% of the “meat” market at-large. Couple this with the projected 100% food production increase food scientists are predicted will be required by 2050, the alternative protein industry will continue to grow rapidly. Automation systems will need to keep pace with this growth in order to avoid bottlenecks in development and production.
While automation solutions for this sector of the food and beverage industry are emerging and will no doubt continually change as R&D, regulations and market competition progresses, the alternative protein industry needs creative, effective control systems integration now.
With the right strategies and automation products, E Tech Group helps alternative protein clients seamlessly build or retrofit integrated automation and control systems that allow them to produce consistent, quality, compliant products while retaining the ability to develop, scale and pivot with this ever-changing field.
A Modern Distributed Control System for Integrated Automation
In 2008, just when it seemed like DCSs might be overtaken by PLCs and PACs for good, Rockwell Automation introduced PlantPAx. Still the only industrial automation system that can handle the whole scope of building automation – including robotics, motion control and safety systems, as a Rockwell system integrator, E Tech Group often utilizes this impressive product in our clients’ control systems upgrades.
Widely regarded as one of the best distributed control systems (DCS) on the market, Rockwell is always improving PlantPAx’s design and capabilities. Clients for whom we’ve applied PlantPAx in their control systems integration project report increased productivity, streamlined processes, and peace of mind when it comes to asset security.
Fast Facts on Rockwell Automation’s PlantPAx
Highly-customizable and adaptable automation software, it’s easy to understand why clients see such significant ROI with Rockwell’s PlantPAx control system platform. A comprehensive set of programs, PlantPAx may seem like a basic template library, but it’s actually much more:
- Centralized facility-wide control and optimization
- Flexible implementation and application
- TVU-certified for cybersecurity
- Redundant controllers, power supplies and networks to negate hardware failures
- Easy access to facility analytics
- High-speed control and data acquisition that ensure precision and consistency
- Compatibility with Allen Bradley system integrators
- Supports process consistency
- Plant-wide process data management
- Broadest coverage of SIL levels and fault-tolerance
- Logix batch and sequence manager
- Cost-effective
Perhaps one of the most important facets of PlantPAx is its scalability, which allows manufacturers to plan for future changes and expansions knowing they won’t need an entire retrofit of their control systems with each step forward.
What a Manufacturer Can Expect After Implementing a PlantPAx Control System
As a user-friendly DCS with unmatched coverage as far as capabilities, all kinds of manufacturers – pharmaceutical, food and beverage, material handling, and more – can benefit from what PlantPAx has to offer. A well-designed and integrated control system that utilizes this Rockwell Automation software upgrades several logistical features of an industrial facility:
- Less Maintenance: PlantPAx’s software has predictive maintenance features that catch minor problems early, minimizing repairs costs and downtime that come with major problems. Reducing the possibility of major malfunctions and associated downtime makes PlantPAx useful in mission critical applications.
- Improved Quality Control: Advanced control and monitoring capabilities, coupled with a user-friendly, real-time interface, ensures consistent product quality.
- Superior Data Analysis: Real-time analytics help users make better-informed decisions about plant operations, which can be especially useful in data center facilities.
- Increased Throughput: The streamlining PlantPAx-backed control systems offer production processes result in faster time to market by speeding up development and testing of new products, which is especially useful in automation for pharmaceutical and alternative meat applications.
These features add up to increased efficiency throughout your plant and its processes: reduced downtime, increased production rate, better reliability and validation, and reduced waste all allow a manufacturer to increase profitability while simultaneously reducing costs.
But there are also benefits to implementing a leading-edge control system like one that incorporates PlantPAx that reach beyond production operations, including:
- Improved customer satisfaction and industry reputation via improved efficiency, quality, and on-time delivery performance
- Improved supply chain management re: inventory costs and delivery time
- Increased competitiveness resulting from reduced costs and improved efficiency and quality
- Reduced costs resulting from improved efficiency and reduced waste
E Tech Group: A Rockwell Automation Partner
In a recent automation and integration upgrade for AMPAC Fine Chemicals, E Tech Group’s engineers selected the PlantPAx DCS to solve a number of issues this growing pharmaceutical manufacturer. Rockwell’s PlantPAx provided centralized control that was easily able to be adapted for varying production schedules. In addition, it also gave this single-product facility the ability to produce more than one product on the same equipment.
E Tech is one of top automation and system integration companies in North America, providing innovative, customized building automation solutions across a variety of industrial sectors, including data centers, material handling, life sciences, food and beverage manufacturers, and more. A Gold System Integrator with Rockwell Automation, we work together to streamline our client’s production, safety and security with integration solutions that increase profitability.