Automation should reduce the work in your day, not add to it.
I help manufacturers get more out of the equipment they already own — without the six-month consulting engagement or the vendor lock-in.
Twenty years creating complex machines. Now helping others with theirs.
I'm Jim Johnson. I spent twenty years as a controls engineer for a custom manufacturing machine maker before going independent. Since then I've worked with several manufacturing sites that all had the same problem: automation that was bought to solve one issue and ended up creating three more.
I don't sell hardware and I don't have a preferred integrator kickback arrangement. My job is to tell you what's actually wrong with your line, what it costs to fix, and whether fixing it is even the right call — sometimes the right answer is a $400 sensor, not a $40,000 retrofit.
I work directly, one project at a time. No account managers, no subcontracted engineers you've never met.
Three ways I usually get called in.
PLC & SCADA programming
Allen-Bradley, Siemens, IDEC, and Omron platforms. New logic, migrations off obsolete hardware, and HMI screens your operators will actually use.
Robotics integration
Bringing a robot cell online, or getting an existing one to stop faulting out twice a shift. Fanuc, Yaskawa, and Denso.
Line & process optimization
Finding the real bottleneck — usually not the one maintenance has been chasing — and fixing throughput without a capital project.
