Shawn Gutierrez, President Founded in 2019, AtomTech is a comprehensive control and automation engineering firm committed to bridging the gap between corporate IT systems and the factory floor. The company designs, develops and implements SCADA systems marrying leading network principles with intuitive graphic design to provide operators with highly scalable functional interfaces and ensures minimal downtime.
“Manufacturers are contractually obligated to accumulate production data and equip stakeholders with insights into operations. Most of them, yet, have a vague understanding of the process or what needs to be done in this regard,” says Shawn Gutierrez, president, AtomTech.
This realization has led AtomTech to customize its solutions according to unique client requirements instead of undertaking a one-size-fits-all approach.
To achieve the feat, AtomTech starts every client engagement with a meeting to review the data sets and the data points they need to record or distribute to the manufacturing systems. The company then comes up with a list of questions to better understand clients’ expectations and decide on the pricing. The next phase is all about investigation. AtomTech visits clients’ sites, reviews their systems, collects backups and reviews the architecture they have.
This enables the company to propose and deploy the best-in-class solution following clients’ objectives. AtomTech then enters in SLA with clients to ensure comprehensive support, allowing them to come back for additional features or solutions.
AtomTech has the capability to help clients achieve their goals by utilizing their existing systems, bringing in off-theshelf software by developing customized middleware solutions. The company is, in fact, Ignition-certified and a platinum integrator for Dynics—a renowned manufacturer and distributor for exhaust and after-treatment emission solutions for the off-road and commercial vehicle industry. AtomTech also develops SQL and C# for automating data collection. It also works with different companies on digital twins to enable more prominent manufacturers to achieve their automation goals.
AtomTech is always committed to ensuring optimal outcomes for clients. The company has a test environment, which can emulate solutions before proposing them to clients. This client-centric approach of AtomTech can be best exemplified by the success story of one of its clients who had a contractual obligation to record data. They were collecting data from the equipment but weren’t acting upon it. This limited their quality improvement processes. AtomTech reviewed the client’s quality systems and added barcode scanners throughout the facility, which allowed them to understand the status of a part at critical points of the process. This improved their overall process quality from 80 percent to 97 percent, reducing the number of products slipping through the quality measure. Another stellar experience reflects a safety equipment company that increased its throughput for different types of safety devices by 15 percent with the help of AtomTech.
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Manufacturers are contractually obligated to accumulate production data and equip stakeholders with insights into operations. Most of them, yet, have a vague understanding of the process or what needs to done in this regard
AtomTech has a patent pending for dynamic HMI software, which allows realtime program editing on the floor or technician level without the help of controls engineers, software, or computer cables. The company currently has 30 deployments of the solution.
What enables AtomTech to achieve success is its team. It has people with decades of industry experience in deploying automation solutions and employing SCADA on the actual automation floor. They work with clients from the development stage to the integration phase.
