Control System Integrator in Orlando, FL
HillPoint covers the Orlando metro and the I-4 corridor from a Space Coast base about an hour east. PLC, HMI, SCADA/Ignition, MES, panels, VFDs, and emergency controls, from the engineer who does the work.
Industrial automation for Orlando, an hour from home base
HillPoint runs out of Melbourne, on the Space Coast. Orlando sits about an hour northwest, a straight shot up the 528 or across I-4. Most of the metro is a normal service drive from here: downtown and the airport industrial zone, Apopka, Ocoee, Winter Garden, Sanford, Kissimmee, and the Lake Nona build-out. None of that needs a plane ticket or a hotel night on your invoice.
The I-4 corridor is the spine of Central Florida industry, and HillPoint works the whole length of it. Plants from Orlando running west toward Lakeland or east toward Daytona are all reachable in a morning. When a line is down, that hour on the road is the difference between fixing it today and waiting for someone to fly in next week.
HillPoint is one engineer, Will Cordero, with 18 years in industrial controls. When you call the number on this page, the person who writes the logic and wires the panel is the one who answers. No dispatcher, no ticket queue.
PLC programming, SCADA, and control panels for Orlando plants
HillPoint covers the full controls stack, from the processor in the panel up to the ERP that bills for what the plant makes. If it involves a PLC, an HMI, a SCADA system, or the network tying them together, it's in scope.
One engineer across all of it means the SCADA layer and the PLC logic underneath it get designed to fit, instead of stitched together by two shops that never talked to each other.
- PLC programming and migration. Allen-Bradley (ControlLogix, CompactLogix, SLC 500, PLC-5) and Siemens (S7-1200, S7-1500, TIA Portal). New builds, and rescues off end-of-life hardware like the PLC-5 line Rockwell has discontinued and the legacy SLC 500.
- HMI development. PanelView and Studio 5000, plus Ignition Perspective screens an operator can read at a glance instead of hunting for the number that actually matters.
- SCADA and Ignition 8.3. Perspective, MQTT Sparkplug B, and a Unified Namespace so every device and system in the plant speaks the same language.
- MES and MES/ERP integration, including NetSuite. Real production numbers off the floor and into the systems that schedule and invoice, instead of a spreadsheet keyed by hand at shift change.
- UL 508A control panel design and modification, VFD sizing and troubleshooting, OT network design, and emergency controls service when something is down right now.
The Orlando-area plants HillPoint works in
General and food and beverage manufacturing makes up a lot of the work. Bottling and packaging lines, batching and process skids, and the mix of new and decades-old equipment most Central Florida plants are actually running. A machine built in 2004 sitting next to one from last year is normal, and both have to keep making product.
Water and wastewater utilities across the metro's fast-growing suburbs are another chunk of it. Orange, Seminole, Osceola, and Lake counties keep adding rooftops, and the treatment plants and lift stations behind them run on a mix of PLCs and SCADA that has to keep up. HillPoint does verified program backups, alarm rationalization, and phased migrations off controls nobody supports anymore.
Then there's the industrial side of Orlando that visitors never see. The theme parks and resorts run serious back-of-house process: water and wastewater treatment, central utility and chiller plants, food and beverage commissaries, and industrial laundries. That's real controls work, and it doesn't get to stop for a holiday weekend when attendance is at its peak.
The common thread across all of it is a plant that doesn't have a controls engineer on staff. Maintenance keeps the line running, but nobody in the building can rebuild a PLC program or stand up a new SCADA system. That's the gap HillPoint fills.
Why a nearby SCADA integrator beats a national one flying in
A national integrator sends a crew from out of state. Their travel and per diem land on your invoice. You often get a junior tech on site while the senior engineer stays back at headquarters on the phone. When something breaks a month after go-live, you wait for the next available flight.
HillPoint is a drive away, and the engineer who wrote your logic is the same one who picks up when it faults at 2am. Nothing gets lost in a handoff between the sales team, the design team, and whoever they could spare for your site, because there's no handoff to begin with.
You also keep everything. Tags, logic, program files, passwords, and drawings get documented and handed over at the end of the job. No proprietary platform you can't leave, no monitoring subscription. If you ever bring in a different integrator later, everything they need is in your own filing cabinet, not ours.
Vendor-agnostic controls, 18 years of it
Will spent 18 years in industrial controls before HillPoint, on programs at NASA, OneWeb Satellites, and Airbus US Space and Defence. That's aerospace and satellite manufacturing, where a controls failure is expensive in ways most plants never have to think about. The habits from that work (verified backups and tested cutovers) come standard on every job, whether it's a satellite line or a bottling plant.
HillPoint is vendor-agnostic on purpose. Rockwell and Siemens both, whatever is already in your panel, not a reseller pushing one platform because that's the only line it carries. The right answer is the one that fits the plant you have, and sometimes that means keeping hardware you already own instead of selling you new.
Recent work in Central Florida plants
Delivered by HillPoint at Central Florida plants like the ones around Orlando. Client names stay private, but the work is real:
- A Central Florida municipal water utility: firmware upgrades, verified program backups, and a disaster-recovery plan across the plant's Allen-Bradley controls, done without interrupting treatment.
- A Space Coast supplement manufacturer with no controls engineer on staff: standing controls support, so when a panel goes dark they know exactly who answers the phone.
- A beverage bottling operation: alarm rationalization and VFD work, so the alarm summary means something again when it goes off.
Got a plant in Orlando and a controls problem you want a straight answer on?
15 minutes with an engineer, on the phone. Tell me what you're running and what keeps failing, and you'll hear what I'd look at first. No pitch, no deck. If it's a fix your own maintenance team can handle, I'll tell you that too. Call (321) 378-0424, or pick a time and I'll call you.