Shick Bulk Material Handling Controls

Shick's controls engineering team integrates process knowledge with technical know-how to deliver world-class automatic systems solutions.

Designing control systems that fully integrate your bulk material handling process to operate in the most reliable, accurate, and efficient manner is a key element of Shick's commitment to provide you with single-source systems to meet your company's specific requirements. As a full-service turnkey provider of engineered business solutions, Shick offers a range of controls engineering services to support a wide variety of customer requirements:

Our methodology in control systems delivery starts with listening to you. We work to identify your standards and to understand the way you want to operate your system. We consider your existing control and information system maintenance skills and the needs of your application. Above all, we focus on the long term and seek solutions that will support you through technological change for years to come. These attributes are built into a System Functional Design Specification that forms the basis for ongoing system design, testing, and support.

Shick offers a complete hardware design package that includes single-line power diagrams, panel schematics, panel layout drawings, and field wiring/inter-connection diagrams. Our designs are conceived with an eye toward the future, focusing on minimizing field wiring and maintenance costs as well as providing a platform for future growth and expansion.

As a significant business partner to Allen-Bradley/Rockwell Software, Shick maintains current technical staff skills in the core competencies of the Logix and PLC/SLC hardware platforms. We follow proven software development practices and design templates to ensure reliability and enable long-range support. Integration-level testing is the final step in our development process, minimizing time spent debugging systems in the field.

The tremendous changes in the power and price of the personal computer have enabled new technology for data collection, recipe management, scheduling and production analysis to be incorporated into control system architectures. More than ever before, integrating information within an organization and adding value with new system features and functions make sense. Shick has completed a wide range of successful supervisory and information management projects using most major commercially available SCADA products. A key component in our strategy can be summed up as "use what you sell and sell what you use." As active users of Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server DBMS products, UNIX, Microsoft Windows operating systems, and Microsoft Visual Studio for our internal business operations, we perfect and maintain our system skills for internal operations and then use them to address your needs. Our Intellibatch™ system is one example of Shick's ability to integrate diverse technologies into a seamless, reliable business solution.

Shick's UL-certified electrical panel production facility is second to none in its ability to convert designs into hardware. Our manufacturing and testing process is under the direction of our engineering team, ensuring that all appropriate codes and specifications are applied and that testing and certification opportunities are maximized prior to field installation.

Finally, our staff is ready to support your needs in the field. Whether it be in the form of I/O check-out, process commissioning, or training, Shick's engineering team maintains a position that allows us to put the right people in the right place at the right time.