BOB TUCKER TECH LLC is a registered limited liability company incorporated in the state of New Hampshire, operating out of 288 Newmarket Rd, Durham, NH 03824. The firm was established by namesake Bob Tucker, a career industrial controls engineer who spent two decades leading automation upgrade projects for large regional manufacturers before launching this local Durham engineering shop to deliver personalized, responsive support to Northeast factories overlooked by large national automation corporations. Our Durham facility combines a professional electrical design office, UL-certified control panel assembly workshop, equipment testing lab, and a dedicated field service team staging area for rapid deployment across New England industrial zones.
Our full technical staff holds widely recognized industry credentials: Certified PLC Programmer, UL 508A Panel Builder, IIoT Wireless Network Integrator, NFPA Electrical Compliance Specialist, and OSHA Industrial Safety Trainer. Every project begins with a joint engineering and production manager walkthrough to map bottlenecks, outdated equipment, environmental hazards, and long-term expansion plans, ensuring every PLC and sensor system scales with the customer’s growing production volume. We exclusively source heavy-duty industrial components rated for wide temperature swings, excessive dust, vibration, and moisture — critical for manufacturing facilities operating year-round in New England’s variable climate. All panel fabrication is completed in-house at our Durham location, eliminating overseas supply chain delays and allowing fast on-demand modifications mid-project.
Our key market advantage is our local Northeast focus and heavy-industry specialization. Most national automation firms prioritize light consumer manufacturing and lack experience with lumber mills, metal stamping presses, outdoor yard cranes, and high-vibration heavy machinery common across New Hampshire industrial parks. We combine deep mechanical equipment knowledge with advanced PLC/IIoT software expertise to create unified systems that seamlessly connect old and new production hardware, reducing downtime during retrofits by up to 45% compared to competitors. Our cloud platform auto-calculates core manufacturing KPIs including OEE, downtime frequency, cycle time variance, and energy consumption, exporting formatted spreadsheets for corporate finance and quality audit teams automatically.
We offer three tiered service packages suited to all manufacturing operation sizes: Basic Retrofit Package for small machine shops and single production lines, Standard Manufacturing Package for mid-size fabrication and packaging plants, and Enterprise Industrial Package for multi-site regional manufacturing corporations with centralized cloud oversight and priority 24/7 emergency field service. All production and equipment data collected from client facilities is stored on US-based secure servers, fully compliant with American industrial data privacy standards with no overseas third-party data handling.
Full custom logic development for all major industrial PLC platforms including Allen‑Bradley, Siemens, Modicon, and Omron. Intuitive HMI operator screens built to simplify line monitoring, fault troubleshooting, and recipe management, with multi-language support and built-in fault logging for compliance audits.
In-house panel build shop in Durham NH producing fully UL-listed enclosed control cabinets, sized and wired to match each machine’s power and I/O requirements. NEMA rated enclosures available for indoor factory floors and outdoor industrial yard equipment exposed to snow, rain, and UV sunlight.
Rugged vibration, temperature, pressure, cycle count, and energy draw wireless sensors designed for heavy machinery. Low-power hardware with multi-year battery life for hard-to-reach equipment zones, transmitting data up to 3 miles without costly hardwired conduit runs.
Locally hosted US cloud dashboard accessible via desktop and mobile devices for live equipment status tracking, historical downtime trending, automated OEE calculations, and scheduled exportable audit reports. Instant SMS/email fault alerts sent to plant maintenance supervisors 24/7.
Phased upgrade solutions to replace outdated relay logic, analog timers, and obsolete machine controllers without extended production shutdowns. Integrate new PLC/IIoT hardware onto existing mechanical machinery to extend equipment service life and digitize manual tracking workflows.
Professional AutoCAD Electrical drafting of complete control schematics, sensor placement maps, panel mounting layouts, and wireless gateway positioning. Every project includes full hard-copy and digital drawing packages for plant maintenance teams and electrical inspectors.
Local Durham-based field engineering crews complete end-to-end hardware installation, network calibration, PLC/HMI commissioning, and hands-on training for line operators, maintenance staff, and plant management. Custom training materials tailored to each facility’s production lines.
Round-the-clock remote PLC/HMI diagnostic support from our Durham engineering team, plus quarterly scheduled preventative maintenance visits across New England manufacturing sites. Enterprise clients receive same-day emergency on-site response for critical production line failures.
Complete replacement of legacy relay controls on six high-tonnage metal stamping presses with custom Allen‑Bradley PLC panels and vibration monitoring IIoT sensors. Cloud analytics reduced unplanned press downtime by 42% annually and automated shift production logging eliminating manual paper tracking entirely.
NEMA 4X outdoor control panels and freeze-resistant wireless sensors deployed on log stackers, conveyors, and saw feeders exposed to harsh northern winters. Unified cloud dashboard monitors all yard machinery and triggers maintenance alerts based on runtime and vibration thresholds.
Interconnected PLC network spanning 12 packaging production lines feeding real-time cycle and downtime data to a single corporate cloud dashboard. Custom HMI screens installed at each line station simplified fault response and cut operator training time in half.