Our team is dedicated to your efficiency and productivity. Every system is custom-designed to deliver the highest levels of reliability, to keep your company operating at peak capacity.
We use an advanced suite of software, controllers, sensors, and electronic components to create systems that help you achieve your goals, and develop future capabilities.
Our automated solutions save time and resources, allowing companies to operate at higher speeds with greater productivity. Our extensive knowledge of all types of automation allows us to find the ideal solution for every client.
Control System Overall Design
Our highly-experienced team is dedicated to keeping your business moving forward. We have the capabilities to sustain your project from start to finish, including design, programming, developing, and commissioning of your automated systems. This includes office development, testing, and onsite installation, along with dedicated, responsive technical support for PLC based hardware/software, visualization tools, automation controls, and databases. We are equally devoted to providing project management methods that assure on-time delivery on every project, ensuring a premium experience for all our clients.
PC Servers and Workstations
Our expertise includes building networking architecture, combining servers and workstations into a seamless, productive installation. Servers provide storage for all necessary software and applications for your automated systems, while workstations allow instant access and use.
Sensory and Output Devices
No matter the industry, we know that every successful system depends on the integration of multiple devices. We have extensive experience with a wide range of Sensory & Output devices, including Barcode Scanners, Photo Eyes, and RFID antennas. We can integrate these devices as needed to transmit and collect data, allowing you the ability to monitor productivity and customize systems for optimal results.
Software Development
Our software development team has created multiple solutions that enable seamless operation.
Control Panel Fabrication
We can supply you with the panel that best fits your needs.
System Re-Control and Modifications
Today’s competitive marketplace demands automation solutions that increase efficiency and profitability. Control system performance can significantly impact the bottom line. Leveraging automation capabilities through simplified, cost-effective migration to new technology while optimizing current investments is key to business success. In some cases, legacy Control Systems can no longer meet corporate objectives for enterprise-wide sharing of business information. Nor can they enlist advanced control capabilities enabling increased throughput, lower costs and improved regulatory compliance, while responding to customer demands for better product quality and faster delivery.
Once a decision has been made to upgrade your control system you will need to find the right partner. A partner that not only brings the technical expertise, but the planning necessary to make the project a success. ControlTouch’s controls solutions and world-class services organization will ensure a successful project.
Behind every ControlTouch system you’ll find sophisticated code built on field proven software developed to optimize performance at every level. Our software preserves uptime, minimizes faults, and fuels productivity, helping you find new opportunities for profitability and growth.
Sortation Allocation Controllers
Sortation Allocation Controllers (SACs) coordinate communication between multiple management systems in airline operations, allowing packages, luggage, and materials to be routed quickly and efficiently. SACs can also maintain a detailed log of movement and routing data to facilitate tracking, and use prefetching and caching to operate at high speeds without sacrificing accuracy. Our industry leading SAC was designed and developed to operate across multiple networks, and is easily maintained, administrated, and can be upgraded as needed. Also included is a built-in redundancy (hot back up) so it does not require any expensive “fault tolerant” solutions. We have successfully installed and certified dozens of SAC systems in airports and distribution centers across North America.
Data Historian Systems
The Data Historian System (DHS) maintains logs of how your equipment operates over time, providing long-term analysis that can identify issues, predict maintenance requirements and find opportunities for expansion and optimization. Using a direct connection to the PLC, the DHS system monitors alarms, equipment states, and system statistics to provide a detailed picture of overall operation. Similar to our SAC benefits, our DHS has built-in redundancy and is easy to maintain.
Management Information Systems
Management Information Systems (MISs), also known as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, allow system information to be monitored and analyzed at any time, from any location. Using an intuitive graphical interface, the MIS can report and log alarms, allow remote system start and stop capabilities, permit parameter adjustment, and communicate with the DHS to provide reports and trends.
Human Machine Interfaces
Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) is a graphical interface that provides all system data and control capabilities accurately and intuitively. By translating system operation into visual data, operators, managers, and maintenance personnel can maintain a better understanding of every aspect of the system, and keep it running at maximum efficiency at all times. Every HMI is customized for each installation, and designed to provide information in the most useful and logical way.
System Simulation and Emulation
ControlTouch can provide every client with a detailed understanding of how their system will operate under every conceivable condition prior to construction or implementation. Using sophisticated 3D modeling software, ControlTouch creates simulation and emulation models that allow our clients to visualize their material handling system in 3D and fully test our control system software in real time. From peak operation to fault handling, our system simulations allow virtual testing and optimization that saves time, labor, and materials.
Radio Frequency Identification
We are experts in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems, which use radio technology to communicate with embedded, encrypted chips in smart labels attached to everything from packages to passenger luggage. Through this system, individual items are tracked, located, and cataloged with extreme precision, no matter the size of the operation. Unlike barcoding, our RFID system maintains 99% accuracy independent of item orientation, position, or speed.
Located just a few miles from our main office, qubeworX is a sister company to ControlTouch that is a world-class custom panel fabrication and wiring facility. qubeworX builds custom panels for every application. These capabilities allow us to deliver custom-fabricated panels without the extensive costs that customized solutions can often create.
Excellence from Start to Finish
With our top of the line Hoffman-Steinhauer Mod center CNC, we are able to create superior control panels for all of your needs. However, our job does not end with the delivery of your panel. We have an expert team of technicians trained to install your project.