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 The companies high-precision prototypes enable companies to evaluate and perform functional tests with genuine production parts, without the worry of high tooling costs or delays in critical design time. Our capabilities allow for production of small precision machined parts and larger machined components. We utilize high precision CNC machining including wire EDM machines and water jetting; along with lathes, Swiss turn & conventional lathes, boring mills, regular mills and drills. 

By utilizing powerful industry leading CAD/CAM engineering systems, the company will design the optimal solution for your manufacturing needs. Our professional manufacturing engineers work from a product’s conceptual stage all the way to production and implementation, ensuring superior quality every step of the way. 

 Our experience with the mechanics, materials (metal, plastics, and composites), and manufacturing aspects of product design helps our customers reduce the number of prototypes and mechanical tests necessary to arrive at a high-quality, reliable, and cost-effective solution. No matter the size of the order - small metal machining orders or large machining runs – We  will treat your machined parts with care and unparalleled accuracy. 

 The company has assembled an expert team of experienced engineers to provide PLC programming services for new system installations, upgrades to existing controls and complete industrial retrofits. Our engineers are fluent in the most common programming protocols including: Ladder Logic, Function Block Diagram, Structured Text, Instruction List, and C-Block. 

 Our extensive PLC programming experience includes implementing powerful, high-performance systems utilizing the ControlLogix series, as well as more cost-focused solutions using the CompactLogix and MicroLogix series. We also program safe systems using Allen-Bradley’s safety PLCs, including GuardPLC control systems and SmartGuard safety controllers. 

The company offers advanced systems programing with several key features:

• Full process, plant-wide automation solutions
• Critical control point prioritizing and monitoring
• Application-specific solutions from batch recipe processing to OEM equipment control
• Alarms and notifications
• Database and system reporting
• Remote monitoring
• Custom script and application coding

Our programmers bring substantial experience in PLC and HMI programming for a range of applications, including:

• Food processing
• Dairy processing
• Beverage processing
• Industrial processing
• Specialty processing

Whether you need to create a custom control application from the ground up, or just modify your current applications that aren’t working the way you want, we are here to help.

 Valve Clusters are a means of distribution and flow control, allowing for product and CIP solution to be efficiently transferred between holding tanks, mixing tanks, fillers and other process equipment with limited-to-no employee interaction. Our expertise helps ensure you the most efficient flow management, using as few components as possible and dealing effectively with key issues that include thermal cycling, cleanability, drainability and flow control. 

 We are specialists in providing pre-built valve clusters customized to meet specific, individual requirements. The company valve clusters can be supplied pre-assembled and pre-tested as well as fully wired and with all the necessary pneumatic tubing, junction boxes and control panels pre-connected. This means you can bring even complex installations online as quickly as possible, saving time and avoiding lost revenue associated with on-site troubleshooting and downtime. Manual or automatic, the engineers can create a system to fit your requirements and increase productivity. 

 Flow Panels have been used for decades to provide a secure, clean, and effective method for directing fluid flow during production or cleaning. By providing a clean break to the atmosphere, you can't unintentionally mix or send products and cleaning solution down the wrong line. Still widely used today, flow panels provide an effective alternative to costlier or less efficient flow diversion methods. 

 Our customized flow panels are designed for use in the food, dairy, beverage and pharmaceutical industries and can be customized based on your specific requirements and application. These can be constructed for multiple sources and are made with sanitary required 304SS or 316L materials. Custom fabrications allow for multiple fittings, some of which are Sanitary Tri-Clamp, Bevel Seat, and Iline. 

Precision CNC Metal Machining Services

Experienced machinists and versatile machines are well equipped to tackle even the most complex precision machined metal components. From smaller volumes on our Haas mills and Harrison lathes, along with our in-house deburring and mechanical polishing capabilities, we are ready to machine your turned parts. Our multi-axis Mitsubishi EDM equipment adds wire-cut electrical discharge machining capability to the precision machining services we offer.

Precision CNC Metal Milling Service

For precision milling of small parts, our highly trained machinists utilize state-of-the-art metal milling equipment to achieve virtually any shape with up to 4-axis milling. With a range of features, our CNC machining capabilities include small part production, second operation parts, as well as short runs and prototyping. With our expertise, know-how, and equipment, our metal milling staff can take even the most intricate geometries that your design engineers can envision and help you turn that vision into reality.

Top-tier Swiss Machining

Swiss Screw Machines are different from other types of CNC Lathes or turning machines because they minimize the distance between the workpiece support (main spindle) and the cutting tool through the use of a guide bushing. This contrast from traditional turning reduces workpiece bending, thereby eliminating deflection at the cutting surface. The Swiss machining process is ideal for precisely manufacturing high volumes of small cylindrical pieces.

Swiss Turned Parts

The companies Swiss screw machining is perfect for close tolerance and complex parts. Capable of running different grades of metal and plastic, CNC Swiss screw machines allow engineers to explore different options to improve performance and reduce cost, while achieving a high level of detail and precision.

CNC Lathe Machining

Our lathe turning equipment and experience in CNC lathe machining enable us to meet the needs of a broad range of customer applications. Routinely producing precision metal parts with diameters as small as 0.012” (0.31 mm) and lengths as short as 0.032” (0.81 mm), our equipment can also accommodate lengths up to 12” (304.8 mm) and diameters up to 1.75” (44.45 mm).

Wire EDM Machining Services

Our vast experience in the production of high-precision small parts combined with our Mitsubishi equipment enables us to deliver wire EDM machining services that meet exacting design standards. Whatever your industry or application, our skilled machinists and high-quality automated process is ready to produce the parts you need with the exact specifications you require.

Water Jet Cutting

With water jet cutting, versatility and ease of use combine with the ability to cut and machine practically anything. Water cutting systems can cut nearly any shape or dimension with an edge quality that doesn't require secondary finishing. Capable of cutting From 1/16th of an inch to 8 inches thick, water jet cutting is the premier solution for cutting applications. Water jetting offers benefits that can't be found with other varieties of machine tool processes - saving time and money.

Precision Welding Services

The company offers comprehensive welding services that are designed for complicated, precision assemblies. By using state-of-the-art equipment, technique, and supplies, our seasoned staff can perform the most difficult welds with the most precise accuracy. Expert training is provided continually to ensure peak performance from our welding staff. Our ability to work on different materials, including aluminum and various types of steel, makes our services ideal for the food service, telecommunications, electronics, military, and medical industries.

Multi-Axis CNC Mills, Lathes, And EDM Machining Centers

When we combine our precision small diameter in-feed and through-feed grinding capabilities and our cut-to-length expertise with our modern Haas mills and lathes, our skilled machinists have the ability to produce precise yet economical micro diameter machined parts. We are able to add complex features to tiny parts we have already cut to length and ground that would be impossible to efficiently produce from traditional bar stock fed machining centers alone. These same multi-tool and live tooling equipped turning centers also allow us to produce conventional parts when needed. Adding our Mitsubishi electrical discharge high precision machining capabilities make it possible for us to easily meet your complex multi-disciplinary design requirements.

 The company will work with you to build panels to your specifications or assist you in designing the right panel to fit your application. Whether installation of new panels or working to retrofit an existing system, we have the experience to ensure the project is done correctly and on time to meet your scheduling and implementation requirements. 

 Using our extensive AutoCAD drafting experience, we can design, build and test panels to meet your needs in the most reliable and cost-effective manner. All components selected are top quality, from leading vendors, and are coordinated to meet the current ratings and specifications of the panel. We can create an optimized layout of the equipment, including power sources and wiring, making the most efficient use of space, while ensuring that all equipment is accessible for maintenance and repairs. 

The company offers expert PLC design services for automation projects in a wide variety of industries. Using the latest 2D and 3D CAD technology, we can design PLCs to control the most demanding industrial automation processes. We with you to understand your needs, and then create an optimal electrical controls and PLC design for your situation. Our designs comply with industry requirements and all applicable international standards for safety and reliability. In addition to electrical components, we have the ability to integrate pneumatic, hydraulic, and P&ID devices for mechanical process controls. 

 With over 30 years of experience and UL 508A Certification, RS Automation specializes in the design, engineering and fabrication of customized industrial control panels that will fit seamlessly into a customer's existing process control platform. With the ability to program PLC's and VFD's, RSA provides cost-effective solutions that improve customer's efficiency, safety and profitability. 

Mechanical Engineering

• Custom interface circuits
• Custom steel enclosures
• Custom control consoles
• Weatherproof or oil tight units
• Wall, ceiling, or floor mount units
• AutoCAD

Panel Design & Fabrication

• UL 508A Certified
• Complete turnkey solutions
• System planning
• Application evaluations
• Custom programming
• Conceptual design
• Hardware & component specification
• Backpanel layout & design
• In-house testing

On-site Services

• Field electrical wiring
• Sequence of operation verification
• Final system testing
• Operator training
• Quality control testing

 Industrial Robotics continues to grow because it provides the potential to improve efficiency, quality, and safety while lowering your costs per part.  The cost of robotics continues to get more competitive with those costs associated with custom automated solutions. 

 While Industrial Robotics has great potential, an industrial robotics solution must be designed properly to both fit into your manufacturing process flow while maximizing the robotic potential.  The companies experience in designing, and building integrated machine solutions, gives us the experience to optimize your industrial robotic solution. 

 We offer a wide range of robotic system services, from assembly to installation. Whether an assembly, packaging, dispensing, sample moving, or pick and place type of system, we have the expertise needed to integrate a number of gantry, cylindrical, and Cartesian robots. 

Clean-in-place (CIP) is a method of cleaning the interior surfaces of pipes, vessels, process equipment, filters and associated fittings, without disassembly.

Up to the 1950s, closed systems were disassembled and cleaned manually. The advent of CIP was a boon to industries that needed frequent internal cleaning of their processes. Industries that rely heavily on CIP are those requiring high levels of hygiene, and include: dairy, beverage, brewing, processed foods, pharmaceutical, and cosmetics.

Depending on soil load and process geometry, the CIP design principle is one of the following:

• deliver highly turbulent, high flow-rate solution to effect good cleaning (applies to pipe circuits and some filled equipment).
• deliver solution as a low-energy spray to fully wet the surface (applies to lightly soiled vessels where a static sprayball may be used).
• deliver a high energy impinging spray (applies to highly soiled or large diameter vessels where a dynamic spray device may be used).

Elevated temperature and chemical detergents are often employed to enhance cleaning effectiveness.

The benefit to industries that use CIP is that the cleaning is faster, less labor-intensive and more repeatable, and poses less of a chemical exposure risk to people. CIP started as a manual practice involving a balance tank, centrifugal pump, and connection to the system being cleaned. Since the 1950s, CIP has evolved to include fully automated systems with programmable logic controllers, multiple balance tanks, sensors, valves, heat exchangers, data acquisition and specially designed spray nozzle systems. Simple, manually operated CIP systems can still be found in use today.

 The company will supply you with components, parts, and process design engineering for the entire dairy process, by supplying excellent service and superior designs, we have an extensive reference list of satisfied quality dairy process customers.

We offer solutions to every facet of dairy processing, whether the process is fluid milk or dairy based products; RS Automation’s dairy experience includes:

• Milk
• Ice Cream
• Cheese
• Sour Cream
• Whipping Cream
• Cottage Cheese
• Yogurt Vat Pasteurization
• Dairy Creamers
• Soy Milk
• Yogurt Smoothies
• Bacthing Ingredient Systems
• Waste water and Methane Power Generation from Dairy wastes
• CIP and COP systems

From raw milk to finished Aseptic product, we have the knowledge, components, parts, and service to supply the dairy industry utilizing 3-A certified and PMO accepted products and procedures.

 Aseptic is a complete system of both processing and packaging a product. Aseptic products are thermally processed to a state of commercial sterility and then filled through a sterile zone into a sterilized package. Aseptic products are shelf-stable and do not require refrigeration.

The aseptic process and packaging procedures allow longer shelf life, at normal room temperatures, without preservatives. Shelf life can be achieved (in some cases) for up to one year with out refrigeration.  The product sterilization process is performed by rapidly heating the product to a high temperature, holding for a short period of time, and rapidly cooling the product. By processing in this manner, products are minimally affected by the heating process; thus ensuring flavor retention, nutritional value, and product integrity.

A wide variety of products are available for processing utilizing the aseptic process in both low and high acid variations. The list includes:

• Dairy
• Dairy Extended Shelf Life (ESL)
• Non-Dairy (ESL)
• Soy
• Particulate Products
• Juices
• Yogurt Smoothies
• Purees
• Particulate Products
• Food Products

The choice of system, system design, filler and package are very product dependent. In order to ensure product integrity and system efficiency, it is crucial that the choice of process, filler and package is made based on the particular product being processed. In the case of low acid products, the equipment, packaging and operation are subject to regulatory compliance in conjunction with a "filed process" with a process authority.

The types of processes accepted in the United States for the production of aseptic products are time/temperature based. The two types of time/temperature based processing systems are categorized as "indirect" and "direct" heating systems.

Indirect systems utilize non-contact heating and cooling media to achieve the desired product temperatures. These systems employ various types of heat exchangers such as plate heat exchangers, tubular heat exchangers, scraped surface heat exchangers, or in certain cases a combination of two or more of these, to heat and cool products to conform to the desired product temperature profile.

Direct systems, like the companies newest system, utilize the incorporation of the heating media (culinary steam) directly into the product to rapidly elevate the product temperature. This heating process is in most cases followed by a flash cooling of the product to remove the quantity of water (as a flashing vapor) which was added as steam. Methods of delivering the steam into the product are either steam injection or steam infusion. Steam injection systems inject steam directly into the product, whereas steam infusion systems distribute the product into the steam via an infusion vessel.

RS Automation has experience in the provision of both direct heating and indirect heating aseptic systems for both high acid and low acid foods. The company can provide an aseptic solution for your product and packaging needs, that is certifiable by the FDA, USDA, or in the case of dairy based products the compliance with the Grade A Pasteurized Milk Ordinance (PMO). The product itself determines which of the requirements will need to be met.

The demand of consumers worldwide is now leaning towards longer shelf life, more innovative packaging, and packaging that is more environmentally friendly. Aseptic processing fulfills all of these needs and more. Whether your product is intended for non-refrigerated storage, vending machines, or institutional distribution, the capabilities are endless; let the company help determine, and in many cases increase, your Return On Investment on such an intriguing technology that not only gives you longer shelf life but a significantly better value-added product.