About Us

Sensing Solutions

We're Sensors, Integration, specialists in Barcode Verification and Vision Integration. If you need a sensor, we can get you one - and with names such as SICK and SensoPart you'll be assured it's a good one. Yet more importantly, we'll make sure you're getting not just a sensor, but a solution.

Engineering Knowledge

When you choose us, you tap a vast array of experience that, since 1977, has encountered and solved countless sensing challenges, for customers big - 3M, Kellogg's and Ford - and small. Staffed by degreed engineers, we've visited almost every major manufacturing facility in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and the Dakotas. We not only know our products and their capabilities, we know real-world industrial processes. That means that when you call us, instead of reaching someone behind a desk versed only in part numbers, you'll access a real-world engineering expertise that will not only provide you a sensor, but the right sensor - one assured to solve your problem.

Immersion

Our specialty is working with companies facing a challenge. Perhaps they've built - or bought - a machine that's just not working right. We apply our technical knowledge, multi-industry background and real-world experience to get it working - fast.

With our engineering background and range of experience, we can quickly diagnose problems. If we don't have a known solution outright, we can deploy our extensive knowledge of sensors, industry applications and engineering - along with our test lab and other tools - to quickly devise a solution - one that we guarantee. If we say something will solve the problem, it will - or we'll fix it.

Our size allows us to do things that others can't - or won't. Instead of simply filling orders with part numbers, we see the whole process. We ask how and where the products will be used. We know our customer's environments - we can tell if you need the dust-shield, stainless steel bracket, or Teflon coating to make it work for you.

Particulars

We use the highest quality equipment, from the best manufacturers. We ship stock items within 24 hours: if the order is in before 3 p.m., the shipment goes out the same day. We also accept credit cards - handy if your machine goes down, it's late, and you don't have time for a P.O. from purchasing. We'll take a credit card and you'll be up and running.

High-Level Solutions

A cereal maker faced a challenge: They wanted to maintain the product weight for each box of cereal, while ensuring that each box was completely filled. We engineered a solution allowing them to regulate the size of their product without adding weight. They make their ëOs' bigger or smaller, based on our sensors. Instead of adding costly product to optimize fill levels, we helped them add air.

Cross-Industry Pollination

A plastics extrusion company was having trouble with a machine. We recognized the problem quickly, because we'd seen it before - at a food manufacturer experiencing the same problem, using a similar extrusion machine, only with dough instead of plastic. Our multi-industry experience helped us employ the same fix to two similar machines in two different industries.

Outfitting Efficiencies

One of the world's largest outdoor equipment outfitters wanted to automate shipping. Before we came in, a worker would manually take a box, unfold and tape it, check a computer, go find the item in the warehouse, place it in the box, add fill, print a manifest and mailing label, seal the box and place it on a conveyor to a truck.

We helped craft a shipping line that automatically folds and tapes boxes, into which workers along the conveyor place bar-coded products. Our omni-directional bar code readers (one of our unique specialties - code scanners that read from a wide range of angles and distances) scan down into the boxes to read the bar codes. The system queries an order database, finds a match, prints and inserts a manifest, prints and applies a mailing label, seals the box and routes it to the right truck. The automated system reduces order fulfillment costs by almost half.