Twenty-two years of clean start-ups

Kestrel started in 2004 with two controls engineers who were tired of watching integrators hand a plant a working line and an unmaintainable pile of code. The rule we opened with has not changed: the customer gets the source, commented, and a set of drawings that matches what is actually in the panel.

We build our own panels. The Piedmont shop carries a UL 508A listing and every panel is powered up, simulated against the program, and punch-listed before it leaves. That is why our changeover weekends tend to be quiet, and it is the single biggest reason a migration finishes on schedule.

Sixty-two people work here, split between the panel shop and the engineering group, with a commissioning team that travels. We work on Allen-Bradley, Siemens, and Modicon because that is what the Southeast runs, and we will say plainly when a platform is the wrong answer for what you are trying to do.

Most of our customers are food, polymer, textile, and packaging plants within a day's drive. We like being close enough to be on site the same day, because the value of an integrator shows up at two in the morning, not in the proposal.