Controls and panels
Motor control, panel work, and the wiring that keeps a process running. Soft starters and VFDs when across-the-line is the wrong fit. We treat the print as the source of truth.
When the line is waiting, you need someone who has already been inside a plant.
Controls, power, and troubleshooting for small manufacturing and process sites, including, but not limited to, ready-mix and concrete plants. We diagnose first. Then we fix what’s actually wrong.
What we take now
Earlier in the shop’s history, on greenfield ready-mix and concrete plants, the batch control system came from the plant controls vendor. AceCo Scorpion on the earlier jobs, Jonel on the later ones. We did not write that system. The electrical package around it was ours: load analysis, utility hookup, motor control panels, raceway, power, plant I/O, and commissioning.
That scope is history. Field work now is Ed and Jamie. A ground-up plant of that size is more than a two-man crew can take. What we do now is the work that fits: running-plant upgrades, troubleshooting, VFDs, soft starts, MCCs, panels, and feeders on facilities that are already there.
If the job is bigger than we can staff, we say so.
Running-plant upgrades
At a local grease manufacturing facility we built custom control panels to take motors off across-the-line starters and put them on soft starters — in an operating plant. Frequency drives went on others. Same rule: design and build the panel, land it, leave it running.
From the job
Shop-built temporary power
A 400-amp, 3-phase, 480-volt panel and a step-down rack, built and wired in the shop for a job that needed temporary power.
The work
VFDs
Install, replace, and commission variable-frequency drives. Parameter work. Not a parts drop. On a running plant, the shop specs and wires the cabinet when that piece of the job is ours.
Pumps and feeders
Power and control for pumps and feeders. Local disconnects. Motor diagnosis when something runs hot or won’t start.
Power distribution
Feeders, gear, and startup for new equipment. We land it so operations can run it.
Generators
Standby power for sites that cannot afford a long outage. Transfer equipment included.
Troubleshooting
Diagnose first, then fix what’s actually wrong — including on a planned shutdown. We find the fault instead of swapping parts until it goes away.
Plant lighting
High bays, docks, and the rooms people actually work in. Aimed at seeing the work, not a catalog look.
Safety circuits
Conveyor e-stops. Local motor disconnects. The hardware that lets a crew lock out and go home.
How we show up
Ed ran electrical work and then a maintenance department in wood-products plants before he started this company. International Paper. Louisiana Pacific. Weekend shutdowns in East Texas, northwest Louisiana, and southern Arkansas.
That is the background we bring to a small plant in the Hill Country. The work we take now is maintenance, troubleshooting, and upgrades on plants that are already running — not a ground-up plant. A lot of it is ongoing: yards and process sites on the call list, not a one-visit panic call. Field crew is Ed and Jamie. If the job is a good fit, we say so. If it isn’t, we say that too.
Maintenance support is ongoing work, not a one-visit sales pitch. Call 830.885.2151.