Top 10 Industrial Automation Solution Providers 2024

In an era where operational excellence is crucial for maintaining competitive advantage, businesses face the challenge of integrating advanced technologies to streamline processes, enhance productivity, and manage complex systems with greater agility. The industrial automation landscape is undergoing a transformative shift as industries grapple with escalating demands for efficiency, precision, and adaptability. As companies strive to meet these challenges, industrial automation has emerged as a key enabler, offering solutions that optimize performance and drive innovation. However, navigating this complex terrain requires more than just technology; it demands expertise and foresight to implement systems that are both effective and scalable.

In this special edition, we spotlight the Top 10 Industrial Automation Solution Providers who are leading the charge in addressing these challenges. These distinguished companies are at the forefront of technological innovation, each offering unique solutions that are redefining industry standards and setting new benchmarks for success. From state-of-the-art robotics and sophisticated machine vision systems to advanced process automation and data analytics platforms, these providers are driving substantial improvements across diverse industrial sectors.

Company:

Automation Intellect

Management:

Brad DeMarco

Designation:

CEO

Headquarters:

Charlotte, NC

Website:

automationintellect.com

Automation Intellect is a machine monitoring platform for manufacturers leveraging best-in-class IIOT, cloud and analytic capabilities. The company's solution provides instant, enterprise wide visibility into asset performance that helps drive immediate improvements in output, downtime and quality. The company's pre-built solution is easy to deploy with OEE increased and value realized within 30 days of implementation.

Company:

FPE Automation

Management:

David Bardos

Designation:

CEO

Headquarters:

Elk Grove Village, IL

Website:

fpeautomation.com

FPE Automation is a full-service, award-winning, stocking distributor of premier components for industry. The company is a premier supplier of components for automation and industry, serving Illinois, the quad cities Iowa area and greater St. Louis. FPE - established in 1963. Its mission is to provide cost effective industrial automation solutions, high quality products and uncompromised service to enable our customers to be more competitive in their respective markets.

Company:

FRAMOS

Management:

Dr. Andreas Franz

Designation:

CEO

Headquarters:

Munich, Germany

Website:

framos.com

Since 1981, FRAMOS implements the best current and emerging imaging technologies to address specific customer requirements and applications. FRAMOS meets these requirements with advanced and proven imaging components from a global network of renowned partners and with FRAMOS IP. More than 180 FRAMOS employees world-wide are passionate about the unlimited potential of imaging and help customers achieve the optimum results from every possible scenario.

Company:

Inductive Automation

Management:

Colby Clegg

Designation:

CEO

Headquarters:

Folsom, CA

Website:

inductiveautomation.com

Inductive Automation creates industrial software that empowers organizations to swiftly turn great ideas into reality by removing all technological and economic obstacles. By cross-pollinating IT with SCADA technologies, Inductive Automation created Ignition software, the first and only universal industrial application platform. With Ignition, industrial organizations are able to create virtually any kind of industrial application – SCADA, IIoT, MES, and beyond – all on one platform.

Company:

KINGSTAR

Management:

Rob Conley

Designation:

CEO

Headquarters:

Waltham, MA

Website:

kingstar.com

KINGSTAR provides all the benefits of a software solution to motion control, in an automatically configured EtherCAT environment with “plug-and-play” compatibility. With the highest quality and performance of pre-integrated and pre-tested motion libraries, KINGSTAR delivers motion control and machine vision at half the cost and time of traditional hardware platforms.

Company:

Percepto

Management:

Dor Abuhasira

Designation:

Co-Founder & CEO

Headquarters:

Austin, TX

Website:

percepto.co

Percepto’s holistic solution enables fully automated inspections and continuous surveillance of industrial sites around the globe. This is all facilitated by a visionary team based in the US, Australia and Israel, focused on pushing the boundaries of industrial automation.

Company:

Roboception GmbH

Management:

Michael Suppa

Designation:

CEO

Headquarters:

Munich, Germany

Website:

roboception.de

Roboception is a pioneer in 3D sensor technology. The company give the robots eyes and brains – and hence deliver key elements of our customer’s most forward-looking automation solutions. Roboception supports both robotic integrators and end users in creating innovative automation solutions for the future-oriented use of robots in manufacturing and logistics.

Company:

Trillium Machine and Tool

Management:

Mike Hamelin

Designation:

President

Headquarters:

Windsor, Canada

Website:

trilliummachine.com

Trillium Machine and Tool was founded in 2001, with the belief that every client should be treated equally. The company take pride in fulfilling the unique needs of customers and taking on the challenge of each project that we undertake. From designing and building custom machinery; to fully automating unique equipment; and providing reliable mechanical, electrical and programming services, Trillium Machine and Tool is dedicated to meeting the needs of our customers.

Company:

Vention

Management:

Etienne Lacroix

Designation:

CEO

Headquarters:

Quebec, Canada

Website:

vention.io

Vention helps some of the most innovative manufacturing companies automate their production floor in just a few days. Vention’s online-first, manufacturing automation platform (MAP) enables its clients to design, automate, deploy, and operate manufacturing equipment directly from their web browser. Vention is headquartered in Montreal, Canada and is used in over 2,000 factories on 5 continents.

Company:

Weidmüller

Management:

Randy Sadler

Designation:

President & CEO

Headquarters:

Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Germany

Website:

weidmueller.com

In the light of Industry 4.0, customised, highly flexible and self-controlling production units often still seem to be a vision of the future. As a progressive thinker and trailblazer, Weidmüller already offers concrete solutions that allow producing companies to prepare themselves for the “Industrial Internet of Things” and for safe production control from the Cloud - without the need to modernise their entire range of machinery.