Freight and Parcel
Alliant Technologies provides turnkey Controls and Upper Level Software for the freight and parcel industry. We have the expertise and resources to perform small system additions, complete new large facility designs, or full system re-controls. Our system re-control methodology allows upgrades to be made with zero downtime during the re-controlling process. Our extensive experience in this market includes designing and implementation of the world’s largest parcel sortation system, having over 42,000 conveyors and 7,000 control panels.
Controls Engineering
Our experienced engineers have decades of combined experience, covering seven different PLC platforms – Rockwell, Square D, Siemens, Omron, Toyota, General Electric, and Mitsubishi. Our teams have worked closely with major industry experts, nationally and internationally, and have provided hundreds of control solutions.
Software Engineering
The Alliant Technologies software team has an in-depth understanding of upper level control system design and integration. We have extensive experience with several software platforms and various interface levels.
Our solutions have integrated equipment from over 20 different manufactures. Alliant Technologies’ advanced capabilities include the following:
- Industry leading configurable PLC modules.
- Various parcel sorting technologies
- Successfully executed PLC controls and SCADA solutions for parcel hubs up to 500,000 parcels per hour.
- Our largest SCADA solution contained over 850 screens fed by close to 10,000,000 tags.
- Integration capability of special equipment and host computing interfaces
- Complete system visualization and monitoring
- Data collection, and trending, and reporting
- System maintenance and support