Pre-Loaded PLCs & Drives
Pre-Configured PLCs and Drives
When you’re upgrading or replacing PLCs or drives, every minute of downtime matters. It’s for that reason that Cross Company offers pre-programmed PLCs and pre-loaded drives. That way, your new components show up ready to install, effectively minimizing disruption and getting production back online faster.
Whether you need your PLC to talk directly with a drive for discrete motion or you need drive parameters preset for your exact application, our automation experts can help you improve quality, raise efficiency, and reduce risk.
Configured, Validated, and Ready to Install
With decades of automation experience and deep multi-vendor expertise, we deliver hardware that shows up ready to install, fully validated, parameterized, and aligned with your system. Whether you’re replacing aging units, upgrading equipment, or deploying hundreds of drives at once, Cross ensures the transition is fast, safe, and seamless.
Reduce downtime and installation effort
Simplify system integration
Pre-set key parameters for your process
Receive fully validated hardware, ready to deploy
Integrating Solutions from Industry Leading Brands
Our team works with an industry leading number of suppliers when developing solutions for our customers, so we can integrate the right components every time. Our expertise, paired with access to a wider range of materials, means we can build the best solution for your process.
Related Automation Services
At Cross, we offer much more than just Pre-loaded PLC and drive services. We can also provide the services our OEM and other manufacturing partners need to succeed. Check out our other automation services and see for yourself.
How Cross Can Help Your Operation
In some cases, the hardware itself isn’t enough. Sure, you could order PLCs and drives online. But then you’d still need to individually configure and validate every single unit. What happens if you’re dealing with hundreds? Or hardware to replace legacy systems? Or even hardware that integrated in already-automated systems? That’s where Cross can help.
Cross Automation can
- Source the PLCs and drives you need based on your individual process and current architecture
- Program and validate the PLCs or drives in-house before delivering them to you
- Deliver equipment that’s ready for immediate installation or integration
By partnering with industry-leading vendors like Yaskawa, Omron, and Parker, we’re able to select the hardware needed for your application based on use-case, not brand. For example, Yaskawa’s SigmaLogic platform enables amplifier motion sequencing and axis control with Rockwell ControlLogix and CompactLogix PLCs through Add-On Instructions (see our post on AOIs), simplifying programming and integration.
How Cross Creates Tangible Value For Your Operation
When you partner with Cross for PLC and drive programming, you’re getting more than just hardware. You’re investing in reduced risk, faster deployment, and better plant safety.
Reducing Risk
The PLCs and drives we deliver are programmed and validated in advance, meaning fewer on-site surprises, less errors, and lower maintenance costs after installation
Faster Deployment
Using pre-loaded units minimizes changeover time and gets your lines running again quickly. In one project, we updated over 300 drives with minimal downtime and no lost cycles
Improving Safety
We program to allow for integration with advanced safety features like interlocks, fault detection, or emergency stops. This protects both your people and your equipment
Cross Automation Services Brochure
Our primary focus is to decrease manual labor, increase throughput, improve quality, and/or decrease the consumption of raw materials through automated solutions. Download our automation services brochure to learn more about our core integration services, technical services, training services, support services, and more.
Get your PLCs and drives ready to install
Pre-loaded and validated by Cross.
Automation Expertise You Can Trust
With decades of experience in industrial automation, Cross Company provides more than just components. We also provide confidence, expertise, and peace of mind. From initial consultation and walk-throughs to sourcing, programming, testing, and installation, our engineers ensure your systems work the way you need them to from day one.
At Cross, we’ve been providing automation for manufacturers and commercial operations since our first industrial automation project in the 1950s (and they’re still a customer of ours today). And we can apply those decades of expertise to your project, helping you avoid potential “gotchas” and other issues with automating.
Working with Cross provides
- Knowledge of PLC and drive platforms across multiple vendors
- Hands-on support from experienced automation engineers
- Integration that fits your existing process, not the other way around
Is Automation Right for Your Process?
Answer a few simple questions and find out! We’ll send a copy of your inputs to help build the case for automation, and determine ROI for automating parts of your operation.
Ready To Start?
PLCs and drives are the backbone of modern industrial automation. They control and monitor key processes, improve consistency, and make your equipment smarter and safer to operate. At Cross, we don’t just hand you hardware. We deliver systems already set up for success.
- Define inputs, outputs, timers, counters, and process logic
- Enable consistent, repeatable control
- Integrate seamlessly with your larger automation architecture
The result? A faster, more reliable changeover and a stronger foundation for ongoing automation performance. Contact Cross Automation to learn how pre-loaded PLCs and drives can reduce downtime, simplify installation, and enhance reliability across your operation.