Technical Capabilities

Automation Consulting

The best automated systems are developed in parallel with the products that they will produce. Concurrent engineering insures that the production process and the underlying automated systems are optimized together to provide the best value. We supply extensive early support for design teams interested in automated production.

Process Development

At Crux Automation, we believe that all good automation must be built around a solid well-tested process. As part of our automated systems, we perform process development testing to prove new processes concurrently with the product design process.

Automated Systems

The heart of our business is the design and development of custom automated systems to support assembly, test and material handling processes.  We provide turnkey deployment of automation systems across the manufacturing spectrum.

Machine Vision

We develop and implement software solutions for Cognex vision systems.  Our standalone expertise includes inspection and gaging applications with both Cognex tools and Microsoft Visual Studio.

Robotics

Industrial robots provide excellent value in terms of speed, reliability and technological firepower.  We have extensive experience in the integration and deployment of a variety of industrial robots.

Control Systems

As part of our automated systems, we implement custom control systems based on all of the major PLC platforms.  We also have extensive experience with PC controls systems.

Machine Design

In some cases, the best solution is a completely custom solution built from the ground up.  Crux Automation provides comprehensive machine design and development services utilizing state of the art solid modeling tools and techniques.

Human Machine Interfaces (HMI)

We provide HMI and SCADA support using Windows Visual Studio and vendor-developed programming systems from many of the major PLC manufacturers.

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