Modernizing Industrial Automation: How Classic Controls is Leading Digital Transformation in the Florida, Southern Georgia, and the Caribbean Region

Classic Controls, based in Lakeland, FL, is a recognized leader in delivering cutting-edge automation, control, and integration solutions across various industries. Serving sectors such as industrial, water and wastewater treatment, petrochemical, oil and gas, chemical, food processing, pulp and paper, and aerospace, Classic Controls provides tailored technologies to optimize processes and drive operational efficiency throughout Florida, Southern Georgia, and the Caribbean Region.

Expertise and Solutions:

Industrial Automation Solutions  

Classic Controls excels at implementing automation systems designed to streamline industrial processes. Their deep industry expertise allows them to reduce manual intervention, improving efficiency and productivity for various applications.  

Digital Transformation Integration  

With decades of experience, Classic Controls helps organizations embrace digital transformation by integrating advanced technologies into their existing systems. This modernization enhances performance, scalability, and operational outcomes, positioning industries for success in the digital age.

Connected Ecosystems  

Classic Controls designs and implements fully networked systems that enable seamless communication between devices, sensors, and control platforms. These connected ecosystems optimize industrial workflows, enhancing both productivity and reliability.

Operational Technology (OT) Integration  

Bridging the gap between IT and OT is essential for modern industrial environments, and Classic Controls specializes in this critical integration. Their solutions combine hardware and software technologies to allow companies to monitor, control, and optimize equipment and processes with real-time data and decision-making capabilities.

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)  

As pioneers in IoT and Industry 4.0 technologies, Classic Controls delivers advanced cyber-physical systems where digital controls and physical machinery work together. These systems ensure enhanced monitoring, precise control, and real-time responsiveness across industrial environments.

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Integration  

Leveraging their expertise in IIoT, Classic Controls implements advanced sensors and connected devices to collect real-time data, providing industries with actionable insights that help optimize processes, improve safety, and enhance efficiency.

Smart Manufacturing Solutions  

Classic Controls leads smart manufacturing, offering intelligent systems that increase flexibility, improve product quality, and boost overall efficiency. Their solutions empower manufacturers to quickly meet the challenges of modern production environments.

Automation and Control Architecture  

Classic Controls designs scalable automation and control architectures, combining the latest technologies to deliver precise, efficient, and comprehensive solutions for process control. Their architectures support both small-scale and large-scale operations across multiple industries.

Intelligent Infrastructure  

Classic Controls creates intelligent infrastructure solutions through automation and data-driven analytics. These systems improve operational responsiveness, minimize downtime, and ensure processes are adaptive and resilient to changing demands.

Enterprise Connectivity  

Classic Controls emphasizes enterprise connectivity, integrating industrial processes with broader enterprise systems. This end-to-end integration provides greater visibility and enhances decision-making, leading to optimized operations and reduced costs.

A Trusted Partner for Innovation and Efficiency

With deep expertise in Industrial Automation, Digital Transformation, and IIoT Integration, Classic Controls remains a trusted partner for customers across the Southeast and Caribbean. Their tailored approach ensures seamless connectivity, process optimization, and operational efficiency, helping industries modernize, reduce costs, and improve productivity through cutting-edge technologies and innovative solutions.

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+1 863-644-3642
https://classiccontrols.com

Maximizing Market Penetration: The Need for Skilled Sales Engineers in the Caribbean's Industrial Sector

In the highly specialized field of industrial valves and controls, manufacturers face unique challenges in expanding their market reach, particularly in diverse and geographically dispersed regions like the Caribbean. Partnering with a technically skilled and account-knowledgeable sales engineering agency to cover the entire Caribbean, including key markets such as Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, and Suriname, cannot be overstated. 

Expertise in Local Market Needs

The Caribbean region presents a unique blend of industrial needs driven by sectors such as oil and gas, petrochemicals, power generation, and infrastructure development. Each country within the region has its specific industrial demands, regulatory requirements, and operational challenges. A sales engineering agency with deep technical expertise and localized knowledge can effectively bridge the gap between these market demands and the manufacturer’s product offerings. 

For example, in Trinidad and Tobago, a major player in the oil and gas industry, the need for high-performance, corrosion-resistant valves that can withstand harsh environments is critical. In contrast, countries like Guyana, experiencing rapid growth due to recent oil discoveries, require solutions supporting exploration and new infrastructure development. An agency with technical acumen can guide manufacturers in tailoring their products to meet these diverse needs, ensuring relevance and competitiveness in each market.

Enhancing Customer Relationships

A sales engineering agency that combines technical knowledge with account management skills is invaluable in cultivating and maintaining strong customer relationships. Industrial clients in the Caribbean often require more than just products; they need solutions to complex operational challenges. A technically proficient sales team can engage with these clients at a deeper level, understanding their specific problems and proposing tailored solutions that add real value. 

For instance, in Puerto Rico, where the power generation and manufacturing sectors are significant, clients may require customized valve and control solutions that enhance efficiency and reliability in the face of frequent natural disasters. A knowledgeable sales engineering agency can provide these solutions and offer ongoing support and training, building trust and loyalty with customers.

Navigating Regulatory and Logistical Challenges

The Caribbean region has various regulatory environments, logistical challenges, and import/export complexities. A sales engineering agency with in-depth knowledge of these factors can help manufacturers navigate these hurdles effectively. For example, understanding the certification requirements in Suriname or the importation regulations in Trinidad & Tobago can be the difference between a successful project and costly delays. 

Additionally, logistical challenges such as transportation, warehousing, and distribution across the islands require careful planning and execution. An agency with experience in these areas can ensure that products are delivered on time and within budget, enhancing the manufacturer’s reputation and reliability in the region.

Expanding Market Reach

Finally, a technically skilled and account-knowledgeable sales engineering agency can significantly expand a manufacturer’s market reach in the Caribbean. By leveraging their expertise and local presence, they can identify new opportunities, engage with key stakeholders, and drive growth in markets that may have previously been inaccessible.

For an industrial valve and control manufacturer, partnering with a sales engineering agency with technical expertise and a deep understanding of the Caribbean market is crucial for success. This partnership ensures that the manufacturer’s products are well-represented and effectively sold and positions them as a trusted and reliable solution provider in this diverse and dynamic region.

Classic Controls
+1 863-644-3642
https://classiccontrols.com

Classic Controls - Your single-source Provider of Industrial Process Instruments, Systems, Valves and Equipment

Scenarios for Selecting Uninterruptible Power Supplies for Industrial Applications

UPS for industrial applications
Courtesy Ametek Solid State Controls

Process control runs on electric power. That is no secret. It follows that process uptime is first and foremost a function of the delivery of electric power. Uninterruptible power supplies provide backup power, filtering, and other functionality that helps assure the availability of clean electric power for control system operation. Even if machinery power fails, maintaining control system operation to monitor and document process conditions, and take any corrective action needed to maintain safe conditions, is paramount.

Ametek Solid State Controls manufactures world class UPS equipment and systems for industrial use. The company authored a white paper outlining three primary situations where a UPS is needed. The paper is included below for you to read.

Share your industrial power requirements with a product application specialist. Combine your facilities and process knowledge with their product application expertise to develop an effective solution.

Scenarios for Specifying an Uninterruptible Power Supply for Industrial Applications from Classic Controls, Inc.

Pressure Regulator Valve or Back Pressure Regulator - Appropriate Application

One of many available configurations
for a pressure regulating valve.
Courtesy Cash Valve

Fluids move throughout processes, driven by pressure produced with mechanical or naturally occurring means. In many cases the pressure generated by the driving source is substantially greater than what may be desired at particular process steps. In other cases, the operation may dictate that a minimum pressure be maintained within a portion of the process train. Both cases are handled by the appropriate valve type, designed specifically to regulate pressure.

A pressure regulating valve is a normally open valve that employs mechanical means, positioning itself to maintain the outlet pressure set on the valve. Generally, this type of valve has a spring that provides a countervailing force to the inlet pressure on the valve mechanism. An adjustment bolt regulates the force produced by the spring upon the mechanism, creating an equilibrium point that provides flow through the valve needed to produce the set outlet pressure. A typical application for a pressure regulator is to reduce upstream or inlet pressure to a level appropriate for downstream processing equipment.

Back pressure valves are normally closed, operating in a logically reversed fashion to pressure regulators. Where pressure regulators control outlet pressure, a back pressure valve is intended to maintain inlet pressure. Similar internals are present in the back pressure valve, with the valve action reversed when compared to a pressure regulator. An inlet pressure reduction in the back pressure valve will cause the valve to begin closing, restricting flow and increasing the inlet pressure. A representative application for a back pressure valve is a multi-port spray station. The back pressure valve will work to maintain a constant setpoint pressure to all the spray nozzles, regardless of how many may be open at a particular time.

Both of these valve types are available in an extensive array of sizes, capacities, pressure ranges, and materials of construction to accommodate every process requirement. Share your fluid control challenges with a process control specialist. Combining your process knowledge with their product application expertise will produce effective solutions.

Pressure Regulating Valve - Type G-4 Cash Valve from Classic Controls, Inc.

Flame Scanners For Combustion Operations

Aim flame scanner through the largest cross sectional area of the flame
Courtesy Fireye

Flame detectors or scanners are regularly deployed in combustion applications as a means of confirming the presence of flame in a combustion chamber. The verification that fuel flowing into the utilization equipment is being properly burned and not accumulating unburned in the combustion chamber is the first line of safety in combustion.

Flame scanners use the characteristics of combustion and the electromagnetic emissions from burning fuel to detect flame and distinguish among flames from multiple burners. The instruments rely heavily upon operating principles utilizing visible, infrared, and ultraviolet light measurement and detection.

In single burner applications, simpler sensor and controller combinations can work suitably, but multiple flame applications are candidates for more complex detection devices and controls which can discriminate among multiple flames. Differences in individual flame characteristics, indicated through combustion products, can be utilized to distinguish between flames from different burners. Some photoelectric detectors can distinguish a signature flicker in flames of any type, invisible to the human eye.

Knowledge and understanding of the flame itself, its emissive attributes, and other characteristics are the key to proper flame detection. This may include the temperature of gases within the flame and its specific gas products. Other than temperature, electromagnetic radiation and ionized gas molecules in the flame are commonly used by flame scanners or detectors.

A variety of flame scanners are available for industrial and commercial use, each optimized for particular application sets. Essentially you have a scanner, which acts as a sensor. The signal from the scanner requires amplification and further processing to provide a reliable control signal. Hardware is available as discreet components, allowing a combination of scanner, amplifier, and control units to be combined into a system tailored for specific application requirements. Integrated systems are also available, with all appropriate detection and amplification circuitry built into a single compact unit.

Share your combustion process challenges with application specialists and combine your facility and process knowledge with their product application expertise to develop effective solutions.

Integrated Flame Scanner for Industrial Combustion Operations from Classic Controls, Inc.

Non-invasive Flow Meter for Extremely Low Fow Rates

Excellent solution for very low flow.

Industrial flow measurement presents many challenges to designers, engineers, operators, and equipment manufacturers, particularly when measuring very low flow rates.  Low flow measurement is a critical element of many industrial processes. Specific examples of applications with challenging flow measurement are chemical injection for oil & gas exploration and production, odorization lines in natural gas distribution, chemical dosing in water and wastewater treatment, paint spray lines, and myriad applications in pulp & paper industry and chemical and petrochemical industries.


Watch the video and read the document below for more detailed information.

The product shown here, the Flexus XLF (manufactured by Flexim), provides a stable and long term solution with reliable measurement of extremely low flow rates down to 3 l/h. Additionally, it is non-invasive to the process, highly repeatable, exceptionally rugged, and available for hazardous areas.

Non-invasive Flow Meter for Extremely Low Fow Rates from Classic Controls, Inc.

For more information, contact:
Classic Controls, Inc.
5095 South Lakeland Drive
Lakeland, Florida 33813
Phone: 863.644.3642
Fax: 863.648.0484
Email: sales@classiccontrols.com
www.classiccontrols.com