Industrial Control Panel Fabrication

Applied Motion Systems designs and fabricates custom industrial control panels for motion control, automation, and drive systems in factory automation settings. As a UL 508A certified industrial control panel manufacturer, we design and fabricate every panel as part of the control system it serves. Rather than producing panels to a generic spec, we engineer each one around the PLCs, drives, I/O, motion controllers, and field wiring the application actually requires.

Every panel we build is produced under our UL 508A certification, meeting the design, construction, and testing requirements established by Underwriters Laboratories for industrial control panels in North America. Panels leave our shop with a UL listing mark, the credential that satisfies NEC requirements, facility inspectors, and insurance carriers. 

What We Build

AMS fabricates panels across a range of industrial control applications: 

• Integrated drive panels 
• PLC and motion controller enclosures 
• Control Consoles and HMI panels 
• Custom configurations for machine-specific or facility-specific requirements 

Our panel work supports lumber and wood products, glass manufacturing, aerospace and defense, and general industrial automation. In practice, applications range from single-axis drive panels to multi-axis coordinated motion systems with integrated safety circuits.

We build every panel to the electrical service, environmental, and space requirements of the installation. Specifically, we work across standard low-voltage distribution systems (120/208/480/575 VAC), standard control voltages (24 VDC/120 VAC), and specialized common DC bus architectures from 24 VDC to 800 VDC. We also specify enclosures for the environment, from NEMA 1 for clean indoor installations to NEMA 4X for washdown or corrosive environments. The application drives panel sizing. We are not constrained to catalog configurations. 

Why Applied Motion Systems 

Panels are designed as part of the system. Most of our panel work is tied to a larger controls engineering scope: a machine build, a drive conversion, or a retrofit. We develop panel layout, component selection, and wiring alongside the control architecture. We don’t hand it off to a separate fabrication house. The engineering team that designs the system designs the panel. That eliminates the translation errors and rework that come from splitting those functions across organizations. 

In-house fabrication. We build every panel at our Vancouver, Washington facility. Layout, drilling, wiring, component installation, labeling, and testing all happen under one roof. When a design change comes in mid-build, and they do, the engineer and the fabrication team are in the same building. 

Quality and testing. Our UL listed panel shop operates to UL 508A standards. Every panel undergoes full QA/QC checks before it ships. Beyond the UL minimum, we verify point-to-point wiring against schematics and confirm proper torque on all terminations. Finally, every panel ships with as-built documentation that reflects what we actually built, not what we originally drew. 

Integration through commissioning. Because AMS handles controls engineering, panel fabrication, and field commissioning, the team that built your panel also provides startup support. As a result, there is no finger-pointing between separate organizations. Instead, you get a single team accountable from design through commissioning and a shorter path to a running system.