Innovative Thinking

Recently, one of Premier Automation’s Senior Automation Engineers visited a customer in Ridgway, PA to assist them with their A2 robotic cell machine. The machine was brought into the U.S. from an OEM in Germany that is no longer in business. Traditionally, German code writing can be complex, which led to subsequent challenges for the customer. 

In addition, the system has a Siemens PLC with an FM357-2 module in it that was not functioning and needed to be replaced. These modules are not readily available—only from Siemens as a spare repaired unit. Once the module was replaced, it still needed to be configured, which not many people know how to do.

In conjunction with Siemens’ Hotline support, two of Premier Automation’s Senior Automation Engineers were able to determine the issues and get the machine back up and running. After several days of debugging and working through the code, Premier Automation was able to get the machine back into production.

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Overview

The answer to this is a difficult one.  There are many ways this could end.  One is a vaccine becomes available and life goes back to normal, although this may not happen for even a few years.  The more likely result is we get through this surge of infections, and once free to do so, companies pick up the pieces and try to get back to production as they did before.  But can they if social distancing strategies make the way they did business before obsolete, using multiple workers to complete tasks in groups where exposure may be likely?  Will workers be comfortable coming to work where they risk exposure that isn’t just dangerous to themselves, but also to their families?

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About Premier Automation

Premier Automation is an engineered solutions company that specializes in providing automation, robotics, drives and electrical control solutions.

Overview

Many companies in many industries rely on us at Premier Automation for our engineering, service and support to supplement their staff, troubleshoot difficult problems and to design solutions for their needs.  In the current situation, many sites are not allowing visitors and vendors on-site to mitigate the risks to their employees and outside personnel which is taking away access to resources that they had at their disposal prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Numerous solutions exist and thinking outside of the box may provide opportunities to continue business as usual through these difficult times.

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About Premier Automation

Premier Automation is an engineered solutions company that specializes in providing automation, robotics, drives and electrical control solutions.

Addressing Coronavirus/COVID-19

During these trying times we want to assure our nation's manufacturing base that Premier Automation stands united to help address manufacturing shortages of necessary supplies.

We are actively monitoring the COVID-19/Coronavirus situation and are taking the steps recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and local health authorities to help keep our communities safe.

MONROEVILLE, PA —In the near future, Premier Automation will begin operations at a new location near Washington, PA. The new facility will allow Premier Automation to more conveniently serve customers with increased capacity. The expansion will be located in an existing 66,000 square foot facility and will offer full engineering and manufacturing services. The new manufacturing space will be used to build large and small electrical controls to support the growing manufacturing base in western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.