Transform your business.
Solving your toughest manufacturing challenges with innovative automation
strategies & solutions.
Engineering your business for the future.
Competitive manufacturing demands greater operational efficiency and productivity of your industrial processes.
Automation can take you there. But you'll need the right partner to lead the way.
Product & Services
Product & Services
Your Requirements Transformed into Custom Automation Systems
Today’s demanding global manufacturing environment requires innovative solutions that address your unique business challenges while helping you maintain and increase your competitive advantage. From simple to highly complex machine solutions, we can collaborate with you to provide cost-effective and dependable custom automation equipment that supports your operational efficiency, profitability and safety objectives – and many times, the solution may surprise you.
A Collaborative and Proven Process for Automation Success
At Live Automation we pride ourselves on thinking outside of the box to help clients exceed the competition. Approaching projects with a combination of both unparalleled technical knowledge and a creative mindset has become a hallmark of our reputation. Our goal is not only apply creative problem solving skills to overcome your challenges, but to leverage our expertise in custom machine designing and building to uncover new automation opportunities where repeatable processes exist or human intervention is traditionally required.
We’ve worked with them all - highly-automated companies that use custom machinery in their manufacturing processes and those companies new to automation that need step-by-step guidance. No matter where your company lies on the automation spectrum, our over 15 years of experience in consulting, concepting, prototyping, design and integration, enables us to deliver the talent and resources required to customize a modern solution that best fits your needs.
Industrial Automation Equipment Capabilities
Live Automation specializes in design, engineering, manufacturing and retrofitting custom automation machines for a variety of complex processes using the latest, state of the art manufacturing technology. And unlike other custom machine builders, the team at Live is also capable of programming your equipment utilizing your current control platform, affording you the convenience of one partner for all of your industrial automation requirements. After all, we started as the PLC Guys!
Capable of full-scale automation or automating a single process for your facility, we use a combination of reliable, off-the-shelf parts, along with CNC machined and 3-D printed parts to produce custom equipment that meets your specific needs. We have experience in a wide variety of custom automation equipment, including:
Benefits of Custom Automation Equipment
When automated processes are tailored to exact user specifications, they can provide companies with exceptional benefits, including:
Manufacturing Cost Reduction
Automated equipment can run faster, more efficiently and for longer periods of time than manually operated equipment. This allows you to successfully manage an increased workload, which in turn increases your revenue.
Accuracy and Improved Quality
Manufacturing products of consistent quality requires the ability to perform detailed production tasks with high repeatability. Even a well-designed manual process will vary in results and impact the ability to control quality. The same task that takes place hour after hour can lead to fatigue or distractions, and tired workers are prone to making mistakes.
Using automated equipment allows you to replicate processes many times over to create identical parts with very tight tolerances. The precision achieved by automated equipment ensures that the product will meet the original design specifications and reduce the amount of error and waste. Your workers are better used elsewhere to supervise the automation machinery or work in a position better suited to their skillsets.
Increased Safety
Utilizing automated machines minimizes having employees perform tasks that can be dangerous and prone to injury, which can jeopardize your efforts to make the work environment safer. Robots are designed to readily take on unpleasant, arduous and potentially health-threatening tasks that may typically be manually executed by employees. In turn, robots can help reduce the likelihood of accidents caused by contact with machine tools or other potentially hazardous production machinery processes. All of our machines are designed to meet strict safety guarding and safe operational requirements as necessary.
Creative, Customized, Cost-effective
Industrial Automation Solutions
Automation Solutions
Automation Skunkworks R & D
Consulting & Platform Integration
OEE - Overall Equipment Effectiveness
Automation Skunkworks R & D
Innovation. Speed. Out-of-the-box solutions. It happens often - you have a great idea but don’t know just how to execute it (or maybe you do, but don’t know who to trust to build it.) Every project starts with an idea and you need a specialized team dedicated to making that idea a reality. Live Automation has helped many clients go from concept to production and we can help get you there too.
Consulting & Platform Integration
Modern technologies are continually evolving, making it challenging for companies to keep up with automation opportunities and trends that can keep them ahead of the curve, and in front of the competition. That’s where we step in. As forward-looking control system integrators, we help bridge the gap between technology and your business, especially when you don’t have in house resources or the level of expertise required to take on this critical responsibility.
Field Service & Maintenance
OEE - Overall Equipment Effectiveness
You can’t improve upon what you can’t measure. And having made a large investment in your industrial automation machines and processes, we understand that you want to achieve the maximum return on that investment and have continuous availability of reliable equipment with precision performance. Leveraging OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) Live Automation can help you achieve both goals by uncovering your hidden factory – a place of optimal performance where reduced lead times and improved production quality are realized through OEE calculation.
Field Service & Maintenance
Your goal is our mission - maintaining the integrity of your systems and keeping them operational. From maintenance to management, Live Automation’s professional engineers and technicians can triage simple and complex control system bugs, machine failures and process interruptions. By deploying leading-edge remote monitoring and diagnostics capabilities to quickly identify and troubleshoot issues in real time, we can be there when you need us to help keep your operations running smoothly.