Industrial Automation

Automation engineering to support industrial manufacturing

 

Industrial manufacturers face considerable challenges in their day-to-day processes. From maintaining obsolete production controls hardware to minimizing down-time in lean operations, there’s no margin for error in staying competitive and profitable.

Novum Automation provides automation and control system expertise to support the needs of industrial manufacturing teams in both production and R&D environments. Our nimble, experienced team tackles both aggressive timelines and iterative ongoing developments with ease, effectively facilitating your adoption of Industry 4.0 with absolute efficiency.

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Industrial Automation Services

Comprehensive industrial automation engineering team providing the following services:

  • Custom industrial automation system builds, re-designs, and retrofits

  • Conveyor control systems design, fabrication, and installation

  • PLC programming, debugging, and support of Siemens TIA Portal and Allen-Bradley RSLogix

  • Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition (SCADA) implementation to provide real-time visibility of plant, machine, or production line status

  • Machine tending automation for CNC Mills & Lathes with Collaborative Robot integration

  • Machine vision system development & integration

 

Innovative Technology Application

Integration of qualified product offerings featuring the latest technology:

  • Keyence clamp-on flow sensors for non-invasive monitoring of utility resources (e.g. compressed air, process cooling water)

  • Electrical power consumption monitoring devices for retrofit into existing electrical panels to capture machine, line, or facility energy

  • Wireless vibration and temperature monitoring sensors for identifying early signs of failure (gearbox, motor, machine, conveyor, etc.)

  • Cost-effective vision sensors for in-line part quality inspection systems

 
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Electrical Control Panel Fabrication

Robust design and build capabilities for electrical control panels using quality, innovative hardware from our integrator partners:

  • Built-to-print or custom-designed electrical panels

  • Replacement of obsolete electrical enclosures - full re-design & installation

  • Small prototype runs to large production runs of enclosure builds

  • All panels are built per NFPA 70 & 79 with optional UL 508A certification

Recent Projects

Recent Projects
Non-invasive compressed air metering
Non-invasive compressed air metering

Siemens Energy required a comprehensive process measurement system to acquire compressed air flow rates on two 8” supply lines at an automotive OEM.

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Machine tending automation cell
Machine tending automation cell

Northwestern Michigan College’s Industry 4.0 Laboratory required full integration of a UR10e robot and Haas Mill to complete their machine tending automation cell.

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Synchronized flexible modular conveyor
Synchronized flexible modular conveyor

A local food & beverage manufacturer required a flexible, modular conveyor to synchronously on-load and off-load product.

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Palletizer control system
Palletizer control system

A palletizer control system required complete facility removal due to obsolete controls.

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Production conveyor control system
Production conveyor control system

Four bottling production line conveyor control systems were over 30 years old and reliant on obsolete control hardware, which hindered operational productivity.

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Custom industrial production oven
Custom industrial production oven

An in-line industrial oven would not fit within new facility footprint requirements, requiring the 60’ linear oven to be reduced to a 7’x7’ footprint.

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Customer testimonials

Customer Testimonials
TE Technology

“Not only would I recommend Novum Automation to other companies, I would be afraid to use any other company for our future projects.”

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AAR Mobility Systems

“Having Novum Automation produce this interface allowed us to have it ready months sooner than would have been possible [in-house] with a much neater, more user friendly program.”

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AFM Corporation

“Novum Automation developed custom software that communicated with our specialized equipment, controlled the equipment, acquired data, and conducted analysis on the data.”

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TE Technology

“Novum Automation met our expectations and exceeded them, and we continue to use them on other ongoing projects.”

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AAR Mobility Systems

“Novum Autoation’s knowledge of LabVIEW and the CompacDAQ hardware were instrumental in completing the task correctly and on time.”

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Inalfa Roof Systems

“I would recommend Novum Automation’s service to others and I will contact them again if I have another project to outsource.”

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