Maritimes / NB

Fredericton

Capital region plants on the Route 2 corridor.

What we do in Fredericton

Full service, one team

Design, panels, code, install and support, delivered locally.

Automation and PLCProgramming, upgrades and support on Allen-Bradley (MicroLogix, CompactLogix and ControlLogix), Schneider Electric (Modicon), Omron (CP1, CJ, NJ and NX), Phoenix Contact (PLCnext) and Unitronics.

Industrial electricalWiring, power and control, safe and to code.

Panel shop buildsCustom panels from our own shop, delivered and installed.

Lifeline responseEmergency and breakdown coverage: 1-833-423-3367. When you call, a real person answers and we get moving.

What runs in the capital region

Fredericton’s industrial base is quieter than Saint John’s and more varied than its reputation suggests. Food and beverage processing, wood products and sawmilling along the Route 2 and Route 8 corridors, building products, and the large institutional plant that comes with a capital city: government facilities, two universities, a regional hospital and the base at Oromocto. Around all of it run the water, wastewater and power systems of the Saint John River valley.

Institutional and government-adjacent facilities are their own kind of client. The equipment is often older than the building’s current use, procurement is documented, and the people who understood the original installation have usually moved on.

Wood products and sawmilling. Drive and conveyor controls, dust-rated panels, saw line and optimiser integration along the Route 2 and Route 8 corridors.
Food and beverage processing. Batching, filling and packaging line controls, washdown-rated enclosures, clean-in-place sequencing.
Institutional and government facilities. Process utilities, standby power controls, mechanical plant, documented handover packages.
Water and wastewater. Pump and lift station controls, VFDs, telemetry and SCADA across valley systems.
Building products and light manufacturing. Machine controls, drive systems, panel retrofits and line integration.

Old plant, missing paperwork

The most common Fredericton-area problem is not a broken machine. It is a working machine nobody can explain. A controller past support, a program with no comments, drawings that stopped matching reality three modifications ago, and a maintenance team told to keep it running anyway.

That is ordinary work. The existing program is uploaded and archived first. The logic gets studied offline and rebuilt into something readable, with tag names, rung comments explaining why rather than what, and alarm messages an operator can act on. Drawings get corrected to match the panel as it actually is. At handover your team keeps the commented program, the I/O list, a written record of what changed, and backups of every version touched. No locked blocks and no source files held in our office.

The full scope is available in the capital region: PLC, HMI and SCADA programming and legacy migrations, industrial electrical installation by Red Seal electricians, custom control panels built and bench-tested in our shop, robotics integration, compressed air systems and leak audits, and emergency response through Lifeline.

Working in Fredericton

We have people across New Brunswick, so the capital region is routine work rather than a special trip. Oromocto, Nackawic and the mills along the valley are on the same run.

For planned work, panels are built and exercised on the bench in Dieppe before they travel, so capital-region site time is wiring, commissioning and tuning. For scheduled maintenance the trip is short enough to keep a real programme rather than a nominal one.

When a line goes down, call 1-833-423-3367. Someone available answers, takes the details and gets the right people on it.

Straight answers

Common questions in Fredericton

Who provides industrial automation in Fredericton?Bedford Industrial Automation covers Fredericton and the capital region. We have people across the Maritimes, and we run our own panel shop. Controls design, custom control panels, PLC and HMI programming, industrial electrical work, robotics integration and ongoing service come from one team under one contract.

Nobody here understands our existing PLC program. Can you take that on?Yes, and it is one of the more common jobs in this region. The program is normally uploaded straight from the running processor. Comments and tag descriptions often live in the original offline file rather than in the controller, so what comes back can be bare logic. Rebuilding that into documented, readable code, and correcting the drawings to match, is routine work rather than a special project.

Which PLC platforms do you support?Five: Allen-Bradley (MicroLogix, CompactLogix and ControlLogix), Schneider Electric (Modicon), Omron (CP1, CJ, NJ and NX), Phoenix Contact (PLCnext) and Unitronics. If a capital-region facility runs a platform outside these five, say so on the first call and we will tell you straight whether it is work we should take.

Do you work with government and institutional facilities?Yes. That work tends to need a documented scope, a clear handover package and drawings that match what was actually installed, which is how Bedford hands over every job. Permitting and inspection under the Canadian Electrical Code, CSA C22.1, as adopted in New Brunswick, are part of the scope.

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