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PLC Controls Integrator and Modernization
Replace the obsolete PLC before the last spare fails, without touching the conveyor.
Somewhere in your plant there’s a PLC nobody makes anymore, a drive that gets replaced from a dwindling shelf, and an HMI whose screen is one drop away from retirement. The mechanical system is usually fine — it’s the electrical brain that’s living on borrowed time. Conveyability supports the controls you have today and modernizes them in planned steps, scheduled around production instead of against it.
Support for the controls you have — troubleshooting, repairs and honest triage.
Obsolete PLCs, drives and HMIs replaced in phased, planned cutovers.
The mechanical system stays; the electrical brain gets a future.
Combined team member material handling experience.
Available when the controls take the line down.
Modernization phased over shutdown windows — no big bang.
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Send what PLC is in there and how hard spares have gotten to find.
What We Support and Modernize
From keeping the old system alive to giving it a successor — usually both, in that order.
Obsolete PLC replacement
Drive and motor-starter upgrades
HMI and operator-screen replacement
Safety-circuit upgrades
Panel rebuilds and rewiring
Sensor and scanner updates
Network and communications upgrades
Documenting undocumented systems
Diagnostics and fault displays
Phased cutover planning
Troubleshooting and repair
Spare-parts strategy
The risk isn’t the old PLC — it’s the day it fails with no spare.
Obsolete Doesn’t Announce Itself. It Just Stops Shipping.
An obsolete processor runs fine right up until it doesn’t, and then the lead time on a replacement is measured in auction listings. A modernization plan swaps that open-ended risk for a scheduled project: the new controls go in during windows you chose, while the old system still covers the line.
Signs the Controls Are Living on Borrowed Time
Any one of these is a conversation. Two or more is a plan.
Spares come from auction sites
When the maintenance plan involves a browser and crossed fingers, the supply of luck is the real spare-parts inventory.
One person knows the program
An undocumented program in one veteran’s head is a single point of failure with a retirement date. Documentation is step one of any plan.
Drives replaced like-for-like from a shelf
The shelf gets shorter every year. A drive upgrade path replaces scavenging with a supported product and better diagnostics.
Safety hasn’t been looked at since install
Guarding, e-stops and safety circuits from another era deserve a review — upgrading them is often the easiest win in the whole plan.
The steel has decades left. Give the brain the same.
Modernize the Controls. Keep the Conveyor.
Rollers, frames and chain don’t care what year the processor was made. Replacing PLCs, drives, screens and safety circuits while keeping the mechanical system is the highest-value modernization most plants can buy — a fraction of a new system’s cost, phased over shutdown windows, with diagnostics your maintenance team can finally see.
Text Us a Photo of the Cabinet.
Send us what you know. We will help with the rest.
Open the door and photograph the PLC rack, the drives and the nameplates. We can usually tell you what’s obsolete — and what to do about it — from that alone.
“We have been a customer of Conveyability for 15+ years.”
“We have been a customer of Conveyability for 15+ years. They have designed, fabricated, installed, and supported assembly conveyor systems on our largest OEM bumper programs. Their fabrication and build quality is excellent, and their installation support and service has been second to none.”
Jeff BengelVentra — Ionia (Flex-N-Gate)
Meet Conveyability: Controls Integrator, Conveyor Supplier, Fabricator, Installer, and Service Provider
Modernizing controls on a running line takes a team that understands the mechanical system, the program and the production schedule at once. Conveyability carries all three, so the cutover is an event on a calendar — not an adventure.
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Conveyability: Your First Call Before the Last Spare Fails.
Planned modernization is cheap. Unplanned modernization has a nickname: downtime.
One team of top-tier problem solvers.
Start with what failed and what production is experiencing — not just the replacement part.
Speed, responsiveness and lead-time flexibility.
Service has to fit the urgency, shutdown window and reality of the operating plant.
Value engineering inside the real budget.
Repair what is worth repairing, modify what is causing the problem and upgrade only where the system has truly outgrown the old answer.
Custom plans built around the plant you have.
Legacy equipment, multiple manufacturers and incomplete drawings are normal inputs.
No passing the buck when the interfaces get messy.
Mechanical, controls, fabrication, installation and future support stay connected through one team.
Need to Get In Touch Now? Give Us a Call.
No hard sell, just experts that know their stuff.
Tell us what is failing, what the plant has already tried and how the issue affects production. We’ll help you figure out the most useful next step.
Controls Modernization FAQs
Phasing, documentation, safety and when to act.
Do we have to replace everything at once?
No. Most modernizations are phased — one panel, one line segment, one shutdown window at a time — with the old system covering production between phases.
Does the mechanical system have to change?
Usually not. If the conveyor itself is sound, the controls can be modernized around it. That’s the economics that make these projects pay.
Our program has no documentation. Is that a problem?
It’s common. We document the existing system as part of the work — often by reading the running program and the wiring itself.
Can you support controls you didn’t install?
Yes. Troubleshooting and modernizing other integrators’ systems — including ones whose builder no longer exists — is a normal part of the job.
What about safety upgrades?
Safety circuits, e-stops and guarding interfaces get reviewed as part of any modernization, and can be upgraded as their own project when that’s the urgent piece.
How do we know when it’s time?
When spares get hard to find, when one failure could idle the line for weeks, or when nobody left on staff knows the program — any of those is the signal. A controls review puts a real risk picture on paper.