Our Story

Welcome to Automation Ready Panels. We were founded out of a obvious need to supply “Standard” built panels as opposed to custom-built panels. So what’s the difference?

Custom-Built Panels

The process for procuring a custom-built automation panel involves contacting an integrator or panel shop, spending time defining requirements to this partner, requesting a quote, waiting for the quote, determining what hardware and/or software will be supplied by said partner, and determining if the cost is appropriate to the value and the competition. Then, possibly doing this all over again for 2 more competitive quotes.

After, you award the project to the company bringing the best price for the value, the partner places you into their backlog. After that waiting period, they will spend engineering hours designing your custom hardware and software solution, costing valuable time and high-dollar labor hours.

Then, they will commence to building this panel using a hand-crafted one-and-done process which is also time consuming and inefficient, using higher dollar labor to build.

Finally, they will invite you to travel to their location to review and sign-off that the panel meets your expectations.

ARP Standard-Built Panels

The process for procuring a standard-built configurable automation panel involves browsing the Automation Ready Panels website, choosing the panel that best addresses the “Job to be Done”, then configuring the motor controller sizes and types.

Purchasing in the website Cart will start the clock for build and shipment. Since our panels are built using a manufacturing process and not a one-and-done hand-crafted process, we have panels already pre-laid out and ready to snap in the configured motor controllers. This reduces the lead time significantly. Panels are tested per our rigorous end-of-line quality process, then packaged and shipped.

The ARP Difference

Purchasing an ARP panel can reduced the procurement process of an automation ready panel from 6 weeks down to 5-7 days. You will receive our panel fully tested with preloaded PLC and HMI programming already ~75% complete. You change it to fit the sequence required for your application, and you will be running in hours, not weeks.

What about cost? For a simple small automation panel design and programming, and integrator will charge around $15,000. A typical small panel purchased here is about $3,500.

See the difference, imagine the time and money saved…