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Industrial Automation Services
From keeping critical systems running to engineering what comes next, our services are built around the realities of industrial production. Whether you need expert repair and maintenance to minimize downtime or deep integration and programming expertise to advance your capabilities, Applied Motion Systems brings the same precision and care to every engagement.
Repair & Maintenance
CONTROL PANEL FABRICATION
When a system needs a new panel, whether as part of a repair, a drive conversion, or a larger retrofit, Applied Motion Systems designs and builds it in-house. As a UL 508A certified industrial control panel manufacturer, every panel we produce is engineered as part of the control system it serves, not fabricated to a generic spec. Layout, wiring, component selection, and testing all happen at our facility in Vancouver, Washington, by the same engineering team responsible for the broader controls scope.
AUTOMATION RETROFIT
The machines that make your product are often more durable than the systems that run them. When aging drives, controllers, or motion systems reach end of life, Applied Motion Systems engineers the replacement — without scrapping the iron that still has decades of value. Unlike integrators who approach a retrofit from the control cabinet alone, AMS starts with the mechanical system. We perform dynamic analysis to correctly size components before anything is specified, ask questions other firms don’t think to ask, and deliver systems that don’t just restore function but often outperform the original. Work ranges from single-axis drive replacements to full PLC and motion system modernization across all major platforms.
Machine Safety Guarding
Machine Safety Guarding
Most guarding failures aren’t about the guard itself — they’re about a guard that wasn’t designed around how the machine actually runs. Applied Motion Systems approaches machine safety guarding as an engineering problem, not a product selection. We design and integrate fixed guarding, interlocked perimeter systems, light curtains, presence-sensing devices, and safety-rated door switches as part of the broader control architecture, not bolted on afterward. Because our starting point is a risk assessment of the machine and the people who operate and maintain it, the guarding we specify doesn’t fight production access patterns, maintenance intervals, or operator workflows. The result satisfies the inspector and works for the shift.
Integration & Programming
Robotic Workcell Integration
The robot is one component. The cell is the engineering problem. Applied Motion Systems designs and integrates robotic workcells around the production environment first, floor space, cycle time, upstream and downstream dependencies, operator touchpoints, and maintenance access, before any hardware is specified. That means the cell that gets built works in your facility, fits your throughput requirements, and can be maintained by your team. From single-station pick-and-place to multi-robot assembly and end-of-line automation, AMS handles cell design, fabrication, controls, and programming under one roof, so the system and its logic are engineered together rather than handed off between organizations.
PLC & HMI Programming
The hardware doesn’t run anything without the logic behind it. Applied Motion Systems programs PLCs, HMIs, and SCADA systems for motion control and automation applications, but the differentiator isn’t platform familiarity, it’s what happens after we leave. Code is written to be read by the maintenance team who inherits it, not just by the engineer who wrote it. HMIs are designed for the operator who runs the machine every shift, not the controls engineer who specified it. We don’t start writing logic until we understand the machine, the environment, the duty requirements, and who’s responsible for keeping it running.
