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Enhancing Efficiency with OTC’s Value-Add Automation & Engineering Solutions | OTC Industrial Technologies

Written by OTC Insights Team | Jul 1, 2025 1:00:00 PM

Since 1963, OTC Industrial Technologies has led the industry in providing innovative services to a wide variety of businesses. At OTC, we offer an array of automation and engineered system solutions designed to enhance your operations, streamline processes, save time, decrease costs, and address complex business challenges.

Defining Value-Add Services

OTC provides customers with additional offerings beyond the ordinary. These services help assembly lines produce better products more efficiently, simplify manufacturing processes, and improve working environments. These value-add solutions are customizable to meet the needs of individual businesses, helping them enhance efficiencies and increase throughput.

Automation Technology Solutions

Let’s delve into OTC’s automation value-add solutions and how we customize each one to seamlessly integrate into our customers’ production processes.

Extrusion, Workstations, & Conveyors

OTC provides customized extrusion-based solutions to meet specific client requirements. Our team takes on the responsibility for the entire concept and design process, ensuring that our customers receive exactly what they desire and anticipate.

In collaboration with trusted brands such as 80/20, TSLOTS, Rexroth, and many others, OTC is a one-stop solution from concept and design, to implementation for the following products and services:

Ergonomic Workstations

Custom workstations designed to meet customers’ specific needs help to reduce employee strain and injuries.

Flow Racks

Maximize efficiency and accuracy during inventory picking tasks.

Carts

A variety of industrial carts are available, all configured to customers’ specific needs.

Machine Guarding

Protecting employee safety with barriers, visual indicators, sensors, and scanners.

Pallet and Chain Conveyors

Ideal for automating the movement of material, OTC offers design and fabrication services of various types of conveyors, including pallet, flexible chain, and belt.

Valve, Pump, & Electro-Mechanical Assemblies

OTC simplifies the production process by providing complete assemblies, which allows our customers to consolidate vendors. Outsourcing these production streams to us not only maximizes manufacturing productivity time but also saves full-time employee labor costs. In this capacity, OTC acts as a dedicated extension of your team.

Services Provided:

  • Custom Cable & Connector
  • Build to Print
  • Clean Sheet Design
  • Functional Test
  • Bag & Tag
  • Custom Packing
Our assembly services include the following components:
  • Control Valves
  • Media Valves
  • Pinch Valves
  • Stepper, Servo, Gear Motors
  • Ball Screws & Bearings
  • Pumps & Compressors
  • Fitting & Tubing
  • Actuators
  • Sensing Equipment

OTC’s assembly services team partners with the industry’s best product brands such as Nanotec, NTN, SMC, Thomas, NB, Rexroth, Gast, and others.

Our certifications include ISO 9001:2015, ISO 13485:2016, UL508A, UL764, and IPC620.

Cable, Harness, & Electrical Termination

Whether a wire harness or cable assembly design comes from a sketch or a full 3D CAD Model, the experts at OTC can make it to a customer’s exact specifications, while adhering to  IPC, UL, and ISO quality standards. Our team is also happy to assist with any design needs.

We partner with the industry’s best brands, including Wago, Harting, TE Connectivity, and Molex.

Services include:

  • Wire Harnesses
  • Cable Assemblies
  • Box Build Assemblies
  • Production Wire & Cable
  • Custom Cables
  • UL Certified (Harness & Processed Wire)
  • Schematics/Drawings (ePlan & SolidWorks)

OTC provides these assembly components:

  • Molex, Amp, Panduit, TE, & Deutsch
  • Hand Solder, PCB Assembly (ESD)
  • Ground Straps/Battery Cables
  • Pendants & Cordsets
  • Cut/Strip/Splicing Capabilities
  • Junction Boxes & Button Enclosures
  • Various Label Options

OTC is ISO 9001:2015, ISO 13485:2016, UL508A, UL764, and IPC620 certified.

Panel Shop & Control Automation Assembly

By acting as an extension of our customers’ engineering and production departments, we help them reduce vendors and off-load non-full-time production streams. The track record of our advanced control systems and software applications demonstrate OTC’s commitment to quality, innovation, and continuous improvement.

We utilize the industry’s best component manufacturers, including Wago, ABB Baldor, TE Connectivity, and Eatton/Cutler Hammer.

Assembly components available:

  • AC Drives
  • DC Drives
  • PLC Panels
  • Remote I/O
  • HMI Panels
  • Button Enclosures
  • Junction Boxes
  • Fluid Power Panels
  • Electrical Termination

Services offered:

  • Enclosure Modifications
  • Design
  • Controls Programming
  • Machine Retrofit
  • Customs
  • UL 508A Listings
  • Easily Scalable Production

Certifications include: ISO 9001:2015, ISO 13485:2016, UL508A, UL764, and IPC620.

Custom Automation & Engineering Solutions

Need a customized solution? OTC can engineer one-off solutions and create custom automation controls for systems or machines to reduce manual efforts and time to increase accuracy.

Machine Safety & Guarding

As machines become more complex and interactive with workers, safety and guarding  become a top priority for operations. Achieving safety standards requires a variety of different product options. With state-of-the-art functional safety technologies, such as physical barriers, visual indicators, safety sensors, and area scanners, you can rest assured that your business is fully compliant and safe. OTC experts are the industry leaders who can provide you with comprehensive support in understanding and carrying out Safety Risk Assessments.

Conveyors

Conveyors are used to automate the manual labor involved in transferring materials from one process to the next. There are various types of transport methods available for different types of products and materials. OTC is capable of designing, implementing, and building all styles of conveyors, including pallet conveyors, flexible chain conveyors, belt conveyors (for food or material conveyance).

Ergonomic Workstations

More often, it is top priority for companies to reduce stress and injuries in manufacturing and work environments in order to boost productivity. To achieve this, OTC offers customized workstation designs through our custom-cut shops to meet specific needs and requirements. This allows us to tailor unique ergonomically designed workstations to reduce strain and promote safety.

Flow Racks

Flow racks are a type of racking system designed to facilitate efficient and accurate inventory picking. Using the first-in, first-out (FIFO) method, products are loaded into the back and picked from the front, ensuring that the oldest items are used first. This fluid movement of materials helps to prevent any slowdowns in the production process. At OTC, our team of experts can customize flow racks to meet your specific production needs.

Vision

Incorporating inline machine vision into quality inspection processes is a game-changer that can significantly enhance productivity and drastically reduces the number of defective products. Including tailored vision applications is crucial to ensuring that each product undergoes a thorough quality inspection process.

Robotics

In today’s fast-paced business environment, companies must be efficient to maintain their competitive edge. One way to achieve this is by incorporating robotics into their production processes. By programming robotic systems to perform specific tasks, organizations can optimize their manufacturing, material handling, shipping, and inspection operations. At OTC, we specialize in robotics system integration, analyzing your current operations to identify areas that could benefit from automation technology, including robotics.

Visual Data Management

Visual management can provide a simple yet effective solution to enhance information flow in many manufacturing shop floors. Easy access to production information maintains the integrity of production quality and can also be used to boost efficiency and aid in training.

OTC empowers you to track production data seamlessly with dynamic dashboards and visual management solutions. Andon is OTC’s system that makes it easy for floor management to monitor and evaluate Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) at a glance. We collaborate with your team to define process metrics, personalize your command center with a visual dashboard, and monitor production data without any limitations.

Standard & Custom Sub-Assemblies

OTC’s engineering experience prepares us to offer a variety of value-add services to complement the design and build process just for you. We provide full-service solutions of design and build for your every need. Whether it’s a customer designed assembly or OTC engineered, we can help ensure success on every project.

Electrical Connections & Termination

OTC Electrical and Mechanical engineers work alongside you to design the right custom solutions for your business, including custom wire harness, off-the-shelf product modifying with electrical connection, and custom cables for interfacing different devices.

Control Solutions & Control Panels

Being a full-service control provider, OTC designs and builds control panels and additionally offers in-house engineering capabilities, including:

  • PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, DCS
  • From Scratch Development
  • Performing Full Function Tests
  • Upgrading existing designs
  • Creating software for controls

Air Preparation/Filtration

A crucial step for maintaining productivity is having a proper air filtration system in place. OTC uses multiple resources to create a finished product to meet your requirements. From filtration, pressure control, air monitoring systems, safety shut-off and more, we can meet your specific needs.

Sensing

OTC’s custom engineering design solutions undergo comprehensive functional testing to ensure proper operation. Our team can create custom brackets and connectors, preset switches, pre-built operating, and kitting and labeling.

A Proven Partner for Automation & Engineered System Solutions

No matter the industry, OTC and our team of professionals have more than 60 years of experience helping customers improve their productivity, save money, and simplify manufacturing methods with our automation and engineered system solutions.

Contact OTC today to discuss how we can customize these services to meet your unique needs and add value for your business.