About 3 years ago we moved away from Brampton, Ontario and are now located in Midland, Ontario. The cost to do business was increasing every year and a decision was made during the end of Covid that within 3 years we would no longer be operating from Brampton.
Thank fully we had our core clients that kept us busy for the past 6 years. As I write this I am thinking of all the projects and the people we met on our way. The management changes, some of you moving up in corporations while others moved into different occupations or manufacturing. We stayed true to our business and Engineered Electrical controls for Wire and Cable Machinery.
As I get older I have noticed some of our brightest Contractor Electrical Control Engineers moving into retirement mostly due to health reasons, this is going to leave a huge void in our industry. AC/DC Drive experts are being replaced by the younger generation and the learning curve for them is huge. These retirements are permanent and will continue to be a problem for all industries.
Today we are working on Electrical Engineering; design, Schematics, Implementation, Costing and we still manufacture controls but in a limited quantity, we focus only on your project and try not to intertwine your project with other customers. This Engineering discipline has worked for us for 26 years.
If you are in Wire and Cable and you need a solution or maybe just a chat about an older control issue please contact me and I will try to offer you some answers that you may not be aware of. Recently we had questions of an SSD fiber Optic (LINK) system that did not work once the machine was moved. After some telephone consultation I was able to set the engineer in the right direction.
This year (2026) we upgraded 5 Allen Bradley Touchscreens This included 3 RSView32 Touchscreens and 2 Panleview32. The solution was to Utilize Factorytalk ME. We were able to do the preliminary work here in Midland, Ontario and then implement the new 15″ Touchscreens on the customer site. This included the removal and exchange of two DH+ Processors and changed out with Ethernet Processors. No more proprietary communication protocols.
During the Screen replacement upgrade with Allen Bradley Factorytalk ME we were asked what 2 touchscreens would look like when communicating to the same PLC Controller. At first we thought that this would be a difficult task, as it turns out it was extremely simple. The processor allows either screen to communicate freely to the processor. We demonstrated this with live video to our client.
We were also contracted to build a Rod Breakdown Control system that is to replace an existing system. The original controls were was a mess, cobbled together from used parts. We completed this system and was delivered in April 2026.
The point being we are still here. The Electrical controls we used to manufacture in Brampton, Ontario and we are now being manufactured and shipped from Midland, Ontario.
