Kors Engineering is swimming against the conventional wisdom tide, working to make manufacturing a bigger part of the tech company.
The Waterford-based business specializes in systems integration and automation for manufacturers and other industrial facilities. It has spent the last year growing the manufacturing integration side of the business and setting the stage for the big revenue jump in 2013.
"We wouldn't be surprised if our number of customers doubled this year," says Tony Kaczmarek, president of
Kors Engineering.
Kors Engineering now services customers in a wide range of manufacturing sectors, including metalforming, hide-processing, food packaging, chrome plating, forging and driveline systems production facilities. Today, a total of 43 plants leverage Kors' PleXML tool to integrate programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and other plant floor systems in order to automate processes and capture and share production data. More than 1,300 work centers are integrated through Kors’ PleXML tool, with 30 percent located outside of the United States.
Kors Engineering currently employs a dozen people and is looking to expand that staff soon. "We are definitely looking at hiring 1-2 people this year," Kaczmarek says.
Source: Tony Kaczmarek, president of Kors Engineering
Writer: Jon Zemke
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