Hauschildt Industries, Inc.
Marengo, IL.


Control panel shop foreman 1986 to 1998

Interpreted blueprints and constructed electrical control panels for a wide variety of commercial, industrial, and civil applications. Duties included involvement in the design, build and implementation of automated conveyors, cranes, lift stations, traffic signals, factory robots, lighting systems and many others. Extensive experience with both new and retrofit turn-key installations of electrical equipment including AC/DC motor control centers, high voltage switch-gear, large scale positioning systems, data acquisition and control centers, computer and PLC communications, rectifiers, security systems, energy management systems, and VFD/DC servo controllers. Both in-house and field experience afforded the opportunity to assist and interact with customers and their employees, engineers, project managers, suppliers and my fellow employees.

I worked for Hauschildt Industries as a Control Panel Shop Foreman for over twelve years. The company was owned by my brother Tom and his wife, Doreen, and was liquidated after their untimely deaths in an aviation accident on December 22nd, 1997.


Tom and Doreen

My brother Tom, and his wife, Doreen.

Some of my crew with the Simpson panel...


Lance, George and Guy with the panel we built
 for the A.G.Simpson Co. in Canada.

Following are a few pictures of the details inside this control panel…

Front of Computer Control Center Data Acquisition section

Front and rear views of the master control and data acquisition sections.

In addition to fabrication, painting, layout and wiring, my work on this panel included writing programs in Hewlett-Packard Basic for the HP 9000 series industrial controller to test each I/O point prior to shipment.

PLC section 1 PLC section 2

Detail of the PLC sections.

The specifications for this project required using an Allen-Bradley PLC. I completed all of the programming for the final installation before shipping our panels, virtually eliminating any on-site debugging of wiring within our cabinets and greatly reducing the program development at start-up. In addition to AB hardware/software the other projects I worked on required the use of many different PLC’s including Mitsubishi, GE, Symax, Electromatic and Siemens.
Drive sectionOperator interface

One of the DC motor control sections and George with an OIT terminal.

On this project we used Fincor (Fidelity Instruments Corporation) programmable drives as the motor controllers for the robots. During the start-up phase of this type of project, my duties included tuning/programming the drives, as well as setting up the positioning sensors for the hoists/shuttles and running the set-up software on the closed-loop positioning units for the high speed transporters. The positioning units used for the high speed axes were Geotronics (Spectra-Precision) TCS infrared feedback PID control devices using serial communication lines connected to the MCC. The OIT terminals we used on this project were Maple Systems MAP590D micro-controllers also connected via RS-232. Working with devices such as these allowed me to gain knowledge in a wide variety of automation disciplines including AC/DC motor control, positioning systems, communications and many different programming languages. I have experience with a multitude of VFD models/makes including Yaskawa, Mitsubishi, Indramat, and Allen-Bradley.

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