Automation integration for Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge
PH Engineering Solutions integrates control systems, robot cells and machine vision for manufacturers across Waterloo Region. Our Woodstock shop is about 35 minutes from Cambridge and under an hour from Kitchener and Waterloo, all on the 401 corridor.
01How we work in Kitchener, Waterloo & Cambridge
Waterloo Region has some of the densest manufacturing in Ontario, and the larger integrators there are usually busy with large programs. Our founders were engineers at Toyota before they started PH, and a lot of our work is the retrofit, rate-improvement and recovery jobs that don't fit a large firm's schedule.
The work is designed, built and run at production rate on our floor in Woodstock, then installed and commissioned on yours. The people who programmed it are the people on site.
02What we do here
- Electrical & Control System Design
Schematics, panel layout, I/O architecture, safety circuits.
- PLC & HMI Programming
Ladder and structured text your maintenance team can read at 2am.
- Robotics & Automation
Concept through safety sign-off, then production.
- Machine Vision
Specified against your actual parts, before anyone commits.
- Drives & Motor Control
VFDs, servos, motion. Sized for the load rather than the catalogue.
- Automated Delivery & Material Handling
Conveyance, AGVs, automated storage.
- Quality Containment
For when a defect has to stop reaching your customer today.
- Mechanical Build & Fabrication
Machining, fabrication, finishing and assembly, run as one scope. About 40% of what we do.
- Automation project recovery
Taking over systems another integrator left unfinished or undocumented.
03Related work
- PH-2368Inverter & transmission prep tablesElectrified-vehicle assembly, Ontario
Powered prep tables for inverter and transmission sub-assembly, from our CAD to the commissioned station.
- PH-2287Rear suspension lifterAutomotive final assembly, Kentucky
A ball-screw lifter that raises the rear suspension into the vehicle, run on a two-hand safety system.
- PH-2340Robotic sticker-application demo cellIPR Robotics, on behalf of tesa
A robot cell that dispenses and applies stickers for paint shops, with automatic cartridge change.
04Common questions
Do you serve Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo?
Yes. Cambridge is about 35 minutes from our Woodstock shop and Kitchener and Waterloo are under an hour, so site work across Waterloo Region is routine.
Will you work to our plant's controls standard?
Yes. Most of our clients have a house standard for hardware, tag naming and drawing format, and we work to it rather than imposing our own.
Issue for construction
Tell us what you're trying to build.
Send the drawings, the spec, or just a description of the problem. You'll get a straight answer on whether it's something we should be quoting.