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Automation integrators and controls shops carry serious money in spare PLCs, servo drives, HMIs, and test instruments – and burn consumables across several projects at once. **SecuraLocker** serializes control components and test gear with calibration-due alerts. **SecuraStock vending** dispenses terminals, ferrules, and panel hardware against a project code. **SecuraSmart** shows true material cost per project before you invoice it. #### three challenges every automation operation faces ## Component shrinkage, instrument accountability, and project cost leak ### 1. High-value control components walk. A mid-size integrator carries $200K to $500K in spare PLCs, servo drives, safety relays, and managed switches. Pulled “for a job” with no record, they do not come back. One unlogged drive is a four-figure write-off nobody catches until inventory. ### 2. Test and calibration instruments with no owner. Loop calibrators, scopes, network testers, and power-quality analyzers move between commissioning crews. Nobody knows who has the $6K calibrator or when it is due for calibration, so a recalibration is missed and a commissioning report is challenged. ### 3. Project cost leak on shared consumables. Terminals, ferrules, DIN rail, wire duct, and labels are consumed across concurrent projects from a common shelf. With no dispense-to-project link, material cost is guessed at close-out and margin leaks invisibly on every job. [![\

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What is the best setup for an automation integrator?+ SecuraLocker for control components and test instruments, SecuraStock vending for panel consumables on project codes, and the SecuraSmart app for field crews. Smaller panel shops often start with SecuraTrack and expand later. Can we attribute consumables to a specific project?+ Yes. The dispense prompts for a project or work-order code, so SecuraSmart reports true material cost per project. That is usually where the fastest payback shows up, through corrected billing. How do we keep calibrated instruments audit-ready?+ SecuraLocker stores each instrument by serial number with its last calibration date. SecuraSmart alerts before the cycle lapses and exports a current calibration status list for client and quality audits. Does it work for field and commissioning crews?+ Crews log usage on the SecuraSmart mobile app or a SecuraScan handheld. Remote consumption ties to the project automatically, with no trip back to the shop. We are a smaller panel shop. Is this overkill?+ Start with SecuraTrack, a bench unit with unlimited SKUs and no dispensing hardware. It gives you the consumption and accountability data first; you expand to vending and lockers when the numbers justify it. How long is a typical rollout?+ A single integrator location is usually 6 to 12 weeks: instrument and component lockers first, then panel-consumable vending, then field-crew app onboarding. ## Other industries we serve SecuraStock serves operationally-adjacent verticals with field-service or plant-floor inventory patterns. 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