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Emergency migrations
When a PLC-5, SLC-500, or old PanelView finally dies, or before it does, HillPoint moves it to a current platform. Phased around your production schedule, with a tested cutover and a rollback plan.
// F&B + GENERAL MANUFACTURING //
When the oldest PLC on your floor dies, is that a parts swap or a week of downtime?
Most plants in Central Florida are running at least one end-of-life PLC or HMI with no backup and no documentation. If yours is one of them, a dead processor means days of rebuilding logic rung by rung while the line sits down, not a parts swap. HillPoint is the controls engineer your plant does not have on staff.
15 minutes with an engineer. Bring the problem. No pitch, no deck.
// THREE FAILURE MODES //
Your maintenance team keeps the line running. But nobody in the building can rebuild a PLC program or migrate an HMI, and the vendor stopped supporting the software years ago. Three ways that ends badly:
The integrator ghosted you
The shop that built your system is gone. They took the source code and the drawings with them, and the last backup, if one exists, is an .RSS file on a maintenance laptop nobody has powered on in years.
The program lives on a battery
Your SLC-500 or PLC-5 is holding its program in battery-backed RAM. A dead battery plus one power cycle and the logic is gone. There is nothing to restore. Someone rebuilds it from memory while everyone waits.
Downtime you cannot see
No real-time OEE, so the losses hide in short stops and slow cycles that never make the logbook. The line everyone assumes is the bottleneck usually is not.
// WHAT HILLPOINT DOES //
Controls engineering for plants that do not have a controls engineer. On site fast, because a small job in Lakeland or Daytona is a drive for HillPoint and a flight for a national integrator.
02
Program backups and documentation rescue
A verified, dated backup of every PLC and HMI program in your plant, uploaded and compared against the running processor. Plus the part nobody checks: confirming you actually have the software and hardware to restore each one. RSLogix activations, comms cables, the PanelView project file behind the .MER. If your drawings walked out with the last integrator, we rebuild the record.
03
Ignition dashboards on top of what runs today
No rip and replace. Ignition Perspective sits on top of the PLCs you already own and puts your process on a screen anyone can read, on the floor and in the office. Unlimited tags, so the license bill stops climbing with the plant.
04
OEE and downtime visibility
Real-time downtime and OEE tracking that catches the short stops and slow cycles the logbook misses. You find out where the hours are actually going, usually within weeks, and you stop arguing about it from memory.
Machine down right now? Emergency service, call (321) 378-0424.
// RECENT WORK //
Delivered by HillPoint at Florida plants like yours:
Alarm rationalization, Level 2 integration, remote I/O, and VFD work at Tropicana. Fewer nuisance alarms, so the alarm summary means something again when it goes off.
Controls support for TNT Supplements, a Florida supplement manufacturer with no controls engineer on staff. When a panel goes dark at their plant, they know exactly who answers the phone.
// NOT READY TO TALK? //
Walk your own floor before we walk it with you.
The Obsolete Controls Risk Checklist is 15 points covering your control hardware, your program backups, your spare parts, and your documentation. When you finish, you will have a one-page picture of exactly where your plant is exposed, written in plain language you can hand to anyone upstairs. Free.
// TALK TO AN ENGINEER //
Which panel on your floor scares you the most?
Bring it to a 15-minute call. No pitch, no deck. Tell us what you are running and what keeps failing, and you will hear what we would look at first. If it is a parts-swap fix you can handle yourself, we will say that too.
Pick a time below. It goes straight on the calendar.