Engineering Services
Most print equipment suppliers ship a machine. EPS ships a production solution. Our electrical, mechanical, software, and materials-handling engineers design, build, and integrate complete decoration cells — from part infeed through print, curing, inspection, and unload — all under one roof, all with a single accountable team.
The four disciplines below are how we do it. On most projects, all four are at work.
Custom Machine Design
When the part, the substrate, or the line economics demand a machine that doesn't exist yet, EPS engineers it from scratch. We don't modify catalog equipment — we design the chassis, select the print engine, specify the automation, and write the software for your exact application.
Every custom build starts with a part in our lab. We test ink-substrate adhesion, confirm the right print process tier, and design everything else around that validated foundation.
Building a custom solution is more than just selecting an ink and machine combination for a given substrate — it is a collaborative effort between the customer, EPS, and our partners.— Sylvain Lacroix, Director of Technology and Manufacturing
- Custom chassis — sized to your part, fixture, and ink chemistry
- Print engine selection — pad, multi-pass inkjet, or single-pass DTO
- Robotic pick-and-place where part geometry requires it
- Optical and laser sensing for part registration and positioning
- Custom software with digital image processing and remote diagnostics
- Pre- and post-treatment designed into the cell from day one
Automation & Robotics
The print engine is only as productive as the automation around it. EPS engineers the complete surround — feeders, conveyors, robotic loaders, vision inspection, sorting, and unload — so every good part makes it through and no defective part ever reaches your customer.
Automation is also where the ROI lives. Labor reduction is the heart of digital transformation, and the payback on automated loading, inspection, and unloading is where most of our customers see the fastest return.
- Bulk loading and unloading — feeders, hoppers, conveyors
- Robotic pick-and-place with custom end-of-arm tooling
- Optical and laser part positioning and registration
- Inline pre-treatment — corona, plasma, flame
- Vision inspection — every good part confirmed, every defective part diverted before it ships
- Sort, stack, and downstream packaging integration
Production Engineering
EPS production engineering improves what you already have — or designs what you need from the ground up. Our team assesses your existing operations, identifies where throughput, quality, or labor costs can be improved, and engineers the solution.
All disciplines are in-house under one roof: electrical, mechanical, materials handling, and software. That means no handoffs, no finger-pointing, and no lead time lost to outside contractors.
When we bring new projects to the EPS team, we are confident that the appropriate process will be identified and validated through testing.— EPS customer
- Electrical engineering — panel design, wiring, power distribution
- Mechanical engineering — chassis, fixturing, structural design
- PLC programming — Beckhoff, Fanuc, Allen Bradley
- Materials handling — conveying, indexing, bulk handling
- Software engineering — custom HMI, diagnostics, data logging
- Process optimization — workflow assessment and redesign
Line Integration
Adding a print system to a running production line is not plug-and-play. Throughput, part flow, floor space, upstream equipment, downstream handling, and safety all have to be accounted for before a machine can deliver on its potential.
EPS has integrated decoration cells into some of the most demanding production environments in automotive, medical, electronics, and packaging. We treat integration as an engineering project, not an afterthought — with one team accountable for the result.
- Line speed matching and throughput analysis
- Physical envelope design — footprint, height, access
- PLC/SCADA communication interfaces (Ethernet/IP, EtherCAT, Profibus, Modbus)
- Safety guarding designed to your plant standards
- Operator interface aligned to your existing HMI conventions
- Single accountable engineering team — not four separate vendors
Talk to EPS Engineering
Send us your part, your application, or your production challenge. We'll tell you what's possible.