Production Facilities
Stone Quarries:
We work on all components of quarries including crushers, conveyors, sensors and lighting, Automation controls and machinery interlocks. We perform annual ground tests, hook up generators and portable plants. 24-hour service calls. All employees are MSHA trained annually.
Asphalt and cement plants:
Conveyors, sensors, automation, machine interlocks, burner systems.
Food and Beverage Processing:
Fruit and vegetable processing plants, wineries, juice manufacturers, organic grain processing, Dairy Farms including hook up of automated milking operations, oil expeller plants, bottle and can lines, bakeries. Maintenance Electric, Automation, Lighting Upgrades, service calls, palletizing and depalletizing, all aspects of packaging machines, troubleshooting.
Foundries:
Burner control systems, hydraulic systems, dust collection systems, automation controls, lighting, data, new equipment installation, service calls.
Machine shop and fabrication shop: Electrical hook up of equipment, design-build control panels and boxes for specific equipment. Installation of Welding outlets.
Recent job examples for Production Facilities:
Design and build safety circuits: Upgrade existing production machines to meet current OSHA standards
300ft. x 100ft storage building light conversion: existing high bay fluorescents were taken down and replaced with 30- new energy efficient LED high bay lights.
Emergency call: Power was lost on a Saturday due to a water main leak inside the building. All breakers had to be removed and replaced and panel interior replaced and dried out. Power was restored in 8 hours, saving valuable inventory from spoiling.
High voltage gate reset: Gate tripped at 2 AM, leaving the plant without power. Sloth Electric used a bucket truck to close the gate and turn the power back on.
Custom De-Palletizer rebuild: De-palletizer was obsolete and non-functioning. Sloth Electric gutted used De-palletizer, installed all new PLC controls, VFD’s and sensors.
Clean in place (CIP) system: CIP system was designed from the ground up. Existing equipment was upgraded with new PLC’s and Touch Screens to allow greater control of equipment. Multiple pieces of equipment were networked together.
Fiber optic cable installation: Fiber was installed overhead on existing power poles to connect remote locations. Installation was completed using Bucket Truck.