Sunshine State Automation troubleshoots and recovers conveyor and sortation systems throughout Florida and nationwide. Belt, lineshaft, chain-driven live roller, gravity, accumulation, spiral and MDR: we diagnose the controls, drives, sensors, networks and logic on any conveyor platform, including systems we did not install and systems that run but will not hold their required throughput.
Most of the systems we are called into were built by someone else, and most of them are not MDR. That is fine. A large share of conveyor stoppages trace to controls, drives, sensors, networks or logic, and that layer looks much the same whether the product is moving on belt, lineshaft, chain-driven live roller, accumulation or motorized rollers. We diagnose and repair it on any of them, take over incomplete or underperforming projects, and leave the system documented and supportable.
Where the line is: our hands-on mechanical scope is MDR, meaning rollers, frames, zone hardware and the components around them. On conventional belt, lineshaft, CDLR, spiral and accumulation equipment we diagnose the controls, drives, sensors, networks and logic; if the remaining repair needs belt splicing or heavy mechanical rebuild, we tell you exactly what failed and what trade it takes, rather than billing you for a visit to reach the same answer.
What you are seeing on the floor, and what it usually turns out to be. None of these are guesses made from a desk: they are the calls that actually come in.
No dispatch queue, no tier-one script, no ticket that ages for three days before an engineer reads it.
Partially completed and unreliable systems are common, and they are expensive in a way that does not show up on any invoice. We specialize in bringing them into production fast, built so your maintenance team can actually support them.
What we do not do. Belt splicing, vulcanizing and belt fabrication are a different trade, and there are shops in Florida that do that work well. Ours is MDR conveyor, transport and sortation systems and the controls that run them. If your problem turns out to be a belt, we will tell you that on the first call instead of selling you a site visit.
Yes. Most of the systems we are called into were installed by someone else. We troubleshoot, repair and recover conveyor and sortation systems regardless of who built them, including systems whose original integrator is no longer available, no longer in business, or no longer willing to come back.
PLC and HMI faults, MDR zone failures, motorized roller and driver card failures, photo-eye and sensor faults, EtherNet/IP and network dropouts, VFD and motor faults, accumulation and release problems, gapping and singulation problems, sorter and divert timing failures, barcode scanner handshakes, WCS and WMS communication faults, chronic jams, and systems that run but will not hold their required throughput.
Yes. Controls completion and commissioning for abandoned or behind-schedule installs is one of the things we do most. We pick up whatever exists, document what is actually there, finish the controls, commission the system against real rates, and hand it over with documentation and training so your maintenance team can support it.
Yes. MDR is our core system. We supply motorized rollers, driver cards, power supplies and pre-configured replacement zones factory direct as NDW's US service partner, and we write the ZPA, gapping and diagnostic logic ourselves. A dead zone on an MDR line is usually a roller, a driver card, a sensor or a network segment, and we carry the diagnostics to tell which.
Yes. The controls, drives, sensors, networks and logic are where most conveyor faults actually live, and those are largely the same problem whether the product is moving on belt, lineshaft, chain-driven live roller, gravity, accumulation, spiral or MDR. We diagnose and repair that layer on any platform. Our hands-on mechanical scope is MDR: rollers, frames and zone hardware. On conventional equipment we will tell you precisely what failed and, where the repair itself needs belt splicing or heavy mechanical rebuild, what trade it takes.
We are based in North Florida and cover the state directly, with service throughout Gainesville, Ocala, Jacksonville, Lake City, Orlando and Central Florida, and Tampa Bay. We also support customers nationwide, and a large share of controls troubleshooting is done remotely before anyone gets on a plane.
For a first pass: what the system is, what it is doing, what it is supposed to be doing, and any fault or alarm text on the HMI. Photos of the panel nameplate and the HMI screen are usually enough to tell us what platform we are dealing with. If you have the PLC program, drawings or the original integrator's documentation, send those too, but we routinely start without them.
No. Belt splicing, vulcanizing and belt fabrication are a separate trade, and there are shops in Florida that do it well. We diagnose controls, drives, sensors and logic on any conveyor platform, and we do mechanical work on MDR. If your problem turns out to be the belt itself, we will tell you that on the first call and point you at someone who does that work, rather than selling you a site visit to reach the same conclusion.
Send us what you have. We will tell you what we think it is, whether it needs us on site, and what it will take to make it hold rate.