CUSTOM SOLUTION PROVIDERS, INTEGRATORS & MACHINE BUILDERS
Working together with our customers to design, build & deliver mechatronic solutions tailored to meet their business needs.
Working together with our customers to design, build & deliver mechatronic solutions tailored to meet their business needs.
Trade Lake Automation, LLC ("TLA") is a family-owned solutions provider that was founded in 2017 by husband-and-wife team, Doug and Stephanie Wickstrom. Building upon their years of experience in manufacturing, they set out with a mission to make a difference – for their family, employees and customers.
Collectively TLA has over fifty years of applied industry and manufacturing experience centered upon automation and engineering, primarily serving the following industries:
> Agriculture
Harvesting equipment
> Concrete and Recycling
Screening/wear solutions
> Food/Dairy
Industrial processing & support equipment
> Maritime Transportation
Stern drives and propulsion systems (military, commercial & recreation)
> Motion and Control Technologies
Industrial machinery serving aerospace, climate control, filtration and more
> Recreational Facilities
Playground, park, and recreation equipment/amenities
> Mining, Sand and Aggregate
Screening/Wear solutions
We work together with customers to design, build and deliver mechatronic solutions that are tailored specifically to align with their business needs. Whether our customers are new to automation or looking to expand upon it, we enjoy collaborating with each team to achieve successes together.
From simple to complex, TLA can design and program a solution to fit your requirements. We work with small privately held businesses on up to Fortune 500.
Our objective is to help you be successful in meeting modern industry needs through automation, controls and robotics. We become an extension of your engineering team by creating innovative solutions that:
> Reduce risk
> Maximize production with favorable ROI
> Provide ease-of-use solutions
> Capitalize upon the talents of skilled workers
> Provide consistent product quality
> Increase profitability
> Gain competitive edge
We pride ourselves in working with each customer to provide quality solutions, meeting our customers where they are at and working together as a team to move their projects forward, whether it be a custom solution or an opportunity to build and/or program per an existing specification.
Our Value Added Services are a key benefit to our customers in helping them increase productivity by means of turnkey solutions and services.
APPLIED KNOWLEDGE | DETAIL-OREINTED | EXCEPTIONAL | FUN | HARD-WORKING | INNOVATIVE | MOVES PROJECTS FORWARD | PRACTICAL | RELIABLE
Doug
Application, Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering
Stephanie "Steph"
Project Mgmt, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering
Dylan
Automation/Mechanical Engineering, Technical Documentation
Vanessa
Automation/Electrical Engineering, Technical Documentation
Matthew
Marketing, Web & IT
TLA’s adept team of application, electrical, manufacturing and mechanical design engineers are ready to help solve your system problems and provide solutions to your business needs. We are a small, accomplished group who share a common goal: applying the highest level of problem-solving skills and exceptional customer service, in a timely response to customers’ requests.
With our relationship-oriented values we will use our honest curiosity to understand your needs and apply our skills to satisfy those needs.
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