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Automation, Batching & Weighing Specialists

Custom-Engineered Solutions

We Are Specialists in: Material Weighing, Ingredient Batching, Process Controls/Automation, Bulk Bag Handling and Liquid Dosing.

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Why Sterling Systems & Controls?



With more than 50 years of experience and deep real-world process knowledge, Sterling Systems & Controls helps manufacturers improve batching accuracy, ingredient management, process visibility, and operational efficiency through integrated automation, weighing, material handling, and process control solutions.

Sterling Systems & Controls engineering staff are dedicated team members, not contract engineers. They are a high-quality engineering team (electrical, mechanical, and software/controls) that stays with you from inquiry to after startup. Our entire team works to ensure your success and that your objectives are met or exceeded. If technical after-start-up support is ever needed, an engineer familiar with you and your system will provide it.

  • We support what we engineer and manufacture with 24/7 after-sales support that is second to none.

  • No annual service contracts or upfront PO required for support service.

  • We provide the technology and process experience to increase process efficiency and profits.

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Batching & Weighing

Ingredient batching and material weighing are core competencies for Sterling Systems & Controls.

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Bulk Bag Handling Systems

Bulk bag handling systems are one of our capabilities that emphasizes our strength in mechanical engineering and design.

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Complete Systems

We can handle custom engineering of complete systems. This ranges from individual process equipment systems to total plantwide automation.

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Controls & Automation

Custom engineering & manufacturing of process controls, automation modules and complete systems for a wide range of industrial applications.

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Liquid Handling

Custom design and manufacturing of the highest quality liquid handling and dosing systems, i.e. tote and dispensing systems.

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Software Applications for Custom…

We are a certified Allen-Bradley systems integrator and routinely use .NET for our PC based systems, including batching systems.

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Bearing Condition Monitor

Bearing condition monitor systems can be standalone or integrated into a more comprehensive control and automation system.

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About Our Team

Sterling Systems & Controls staff are dedicated team members vested in your success and achieving your objectives. Our engineering team members design complete automated process systems for applications in Baking, Food Processing, Animal Feed and Pet Food Manufacturing, Rubber Compounding, Specialty Chemicals, and many other process industries. These automated systems include process controls, plant automation, material weighing, ingredient batching, bulk bag unloading and filling, liquid handling, and more.

We can also provide complete systems that incorporate other process equipment such as mixers, grinders, classifiers, mills, conveyors, post-batch material handling systems, and much more. Sterling Systems & Controls provides the best single-source solutions to meet your process objectives due to our attention to detail and well-rounded depth of experience working in a wide variety of agricultural and industrial applications. We serve End-Use, OEM’s, Contractors, and Engineering customers.

How We Custom Engineer Your Solution

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Analyze

We interview your staff to determine the objectives and requirements of your project.

Develop

With our application and technology experience, we develop a custom solution to meet your objectives and make your process more efficient.

Profit

You will profit from our more than 50 years of experience in baking, food processing, animal feed and pet food manufacturing, rubber compounding, specialty chemicals, and many other process industries, as well as our expertise with particle size reduction mills, mixers, other process equipment, and with process control, automation, and data management components.

Get Started

Give us a call today to talk about your business and process objectives and see how Sterling Systems & Controls can provide a custom engineered solution.

What Our Customers Are Saying

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Jack Shrader

“We have two Micro Ingredient Batching Systems and an Automated Control System for our complete production lines from Sterling Systems & Controls. My recommendation to anyone considering Sterling Systems & Controls equipment and services? JUST DO IT! You will never regret it. We are Happy with our decision to work with them. Their reputation as a leader in the industry is well earned.”

Maintenance Manager OTECH Corporation

Miscellaneous Plastics Products – Thermoplastic Compounding

Kirk Bowman

“We know that making a change in our process management could be very disruptive and expensive. Sterling Systems & Controls is very knowledgeable and helpful, and after more than 25 years and 10 plus significant new systems or upgrades, we feel the decision we made in 1995 was a good one and allowed us to focus on our customers.”

Director of Operations Performix Nutrition Systems

Animal Feed Ingredients

Robert Ruiz

“Since the installation and start-up of the Sterling Systems & Controls hand prompt batching stations, our internal and external process audits have become much easier with reduced paperwork and less time spent searching for information. Training our new operators has never been simpler, and our customers also approve of the use of these batching stations.”

Continuous Improvement Manager Mountain Country Foods

Pet Treat Manufacturing

Joe Easton

“Sterling Systems & Controls has evolved over the years as new technologies have come along. As our process controls and automation partner, Sterling has been instrumental in helping us to bring our facilities into the modern era. I would highly recommend Sterling Systems & Controls for their flexibility and knowledge to anyone looking for a process control and automation system partner.”

Commodities Purchasing Rose Acre Farms

Animal Feed for Egg Producer

John Burkholder

“We have been very happy with the automation/control system and the service we receive from Sterling Systems & Controls. We enjoy and value the common-sense, old-fashioned, small company feel we get as our needs are addressed promptly and at a reasonable cost.”

Operations Manager Prairie Grain Processors, LLC

Agriculture

Charlie Letcher

“We are a livestock feed manufacturer for dairy, beef, poultry, and swine. We have worked with Sterling Systems & Controls for over 30 years using their batching control system. They have an outstanding product at a very competitive price. The Sterling batching control system delivers speed, consistency, and the required record keeping we need. We always have great interaction with Sterling Systems & Controls. Their people are focused on providing us with the best possible solution. Their support, if we experience any issue, is always focused on getting us up and running as quickly as possible. The knowledge they bring from all the industrial and agricultural applications they have worked on gives them a large experience base on which to draw. Sterling Systems & Controls is the company that does what they say they will do, if not more. We have confidence in them and their products. After many years of working with them, and several of their systems, we know their product works over and over.”

Director of Manufacturing Agri-King, Inc.

Animal Feed Ingredients

Ron Hodges

“We had a micro ingredient batching system with a single scale that wasn’t very efficient. We put a new custom engineered microsystem in from Sterling Systems & Controls, Inc. that has five (5) scales! This made us more efficient with our batch times. Being able to weigh out five different micro ingredients at the same time vs. just one at a time was a major achievement. Being able to weigh five different micro ingredients at the same time was a definite game-changer for us.”

Plant Manager Hubbard Feeds, Inc.

Animal Feed

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Jack Shrader

“The Sterling Systems & Controls equipment and automation system is very user friendly and easily adapted to our processes. Our old system of controls wasn’t user-friendly or reliable, and required full-time manning of the controls. There were constant communication errors and too much downtime with the old system. The Sterling Systems & Controls equipment and automation solved those problems.”

Maintenance Manager OTECH Corporation

Misscelaneous Plastics Products – Thermoplastics Compounding

Kirk Bowman

“I have used Sterling Systems & Controls since 1995 when we transitioned from a manual operation. We did a thorough search before we chose Sterling. They were the only supply partner that was willing to understand our needs and find ways to adjust their technology to fit our process.”

Director of Operations Performix Nutrition Systems

Animal Feed Ingredients

02/04/2024

Robert Ruiz

“We have been highly satisfied with the semi-automatic hand prompt batching stations that we purchased from Sterling Systems & Controls. We have been impressed with how effectively the batching stations have met our needs and how easy it was to learn to use them.”

Continuous Improvement Manager Mountain Country Foods

Pet Treat Manufacturing

Joe Easton

“Our control systems were 30 to 40 years old. We lived day to day waiting for the next failure. In an ever-evolving world of industry oversight, an increasingly competitive environment, and the need to always be as efficient in feed manufacturing as we possibly can, we needed a Feed Mill Controls partner. For years Sterling Systems & Controls has helped us evolve our old and new feed mills to meet these challenges.”

Commodities Purchasing Rose Acre Farms

Animal Feed for Egg Producer

John Burkholder

“The Sterling Systems & Controls automation system has enhanced accuracy in our ingredient batching, increased overall efficiency, and reduced operator labor. Sterling’s ability and willingness to adjust and adapt the automation and control software to accommodate our process changes as we evolved, and went through various building phases of our process, was a notable and very positive experience.”

Operations Manager Prairie Grain Processors, LLC

Agriculture

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Jack Shrader

“The Sterling Systems & Controls team is awesome! From Sales to Engineering, Service, and Administration, they were all continuously committed to the success of our project and achieving our company objectives with the equipment and automation system. They all worked diligently to make the changeover go quickly and smoothly.”

Maintenance Manager OTECH Corporation

Misscelaneous Plastics Products – Thermoplastics Compounding

Charlie Letcher

“Sterling Systems & Controls is the company that does what they say they will do, if not more. We have confidence in them and their products. After many years of working with them, and several of their systems, we know their product works over and over.”

Director of Manufacturing Agri-King, Inc.

Animal Feed Ingredients

Robert Ruiz

“We initially purchased one of the semi-automatic hand prompt batching stations to test. We were so satisfied with this first unit that we subsequently purchased four more, all of which have exceeded our expectations. Sterling Systems’ technical support, whenever required for start-up, has always been top-notch.”

Continuous Improvement Manager Mountain Country Foods

Pet Treat Manufacturing

Joe Easton

“Price, quality, and the ability to conform to our existing mill wiring has been key, along with Sterling’s ability to easily adapt their installed systems to our process changes while limiting down-time.”

Commodities Purchasing Rose Acre Farms

Animal Feed for Egg Producer

John Burkholder

“We used manual batching control with start/stop pushbuttons to turn augers on/off for many years. Now we use a feed mill batching control system from Sterling Systems & Controls. Why? Because of the simplicity of the Sterling software, their ability to custom engineer the batching automation system to fit our objectives and requirements, and the fact that with Sterling Systems there is no annual subscription fee or contract.”

Operations Manager Prairie Grain Processors, LLC

Agriculture

Charlie Letcher

“We always have great interaction with Sterling Systems & Controls. Their people are focused on providing us with the best possible solution. Their support, if we experience any issue, is always focused on getting us up and running as quickly as possible. The knowledge they bring from all the industrial and agricultural applications they have worked on gives them a large experience base on which to draw. ”

Director of Manufacturing Agri-King, Inc.

Animal Feed Ingredients