Industrial automation integration · Fort Collins, Colorado
Cache Line Automation is an industrial automation integrator in Fort Collins, Colorado. We program PLCs, build control panels, integrate robotic cells, commission SCADA and HMI, retrofit legacy lines, and audit safety compliance — then hand over drawings, backups, and tag lists that match what is actually on your floor.
Services
Scope is written down so it can be marked up, argued with, and re-issued. Each discipline leaves you the drawings, programs, and paperwork that keep the line serviceable after we are gone.
Ladder, structured text, and function block written to a fixed tag convention, versioned and commented — so the next engineer, or the electrician on nights, can read the logic without a phone call.
Tagged program and a complete backup set
Panels laid out, labeled, and wire-numbered, then shipped with as-built drawings that match what is behind the door — not a copy of the drawing they were supposed to follow.
As-built drawing set and wire schedule
Robot, guarding, end-of-arm tooling, and machine interface brought together as one cell, with the safety circuit documented rather than assumed.
Safety circuit and guarding drawings
Screens, alarms, and historian set up so the operator sees the fault and maintenance sees the trend, with tag databases kept consistent from the PLC through to the screen.
Alarm list and tag database
Aging controllers migrated with a cutover plan and an I/O cross-reference, plus a rollback position if the first shift goes badly.
I/O cross-reference and cutover plan
Risk assessments, guarding reviews, and the punch list that follows — findings written down, not remembered, so they can be closed out item by item.
Written findings and a close-out punch list
Process
What the machine is meant to do, what is already on the floor, and who signs off at the end. No drawings needed to start.
The scope comes back as a marked-up list: what is in, what is excluded, and what is still needed from you.
Priced against that scope, with the assumptions written down so every line can be challenged before it is approved.
Panel, program, cell, and screens delivered, then started up and witnessed on site.
Drawings, program backups, and the tag list handed over at the revision the plant was actually left in.
Work
Panels, cells, screens, and retrofits — photographed on site while the job is open and after it is signed off, so the record matches the machine.
Start here
Nothing gets built on a verbal scope. Tell us what the machine is meant to do and what is already on the floor — the reply comes back as a marked-up scope and a priced revision you can approve or redline.