Banks Integration provides scalable automation solutions that are shaping the future of life sciences manufacturing.
Scaling up your ability to produce world-changing products like pharmaceuticals or alternative proteins is exciting, but difficult. Collaboration is key: especially collaboration with an expert automation partner like Banks Integration.
We specialize in scaling — scaling up your production through rock-solid automation integration and scaling down your problems via our collaborative process. After 25 years working with innovators in America’s beating heart of experimentation and discovery, we’ve seen enough great outcomes to guide you there.
Banks Integration is part of the E Tech Group, a collection of trailblazing automation, integration, and engineering firms stretching from coast to coast.
Explore The Industries We Serve
Pharmaceutical & Biotech
Northern California’s pharmaceutical and biotech companies are leading the charge towards better innovation. Banks Integration designs and upgrades control systems, so you can stay competitive with reliable and efficient processes.
Product Manufacturing & Distribution
Reliable distribution is key to customer satisfaction and profit. Banks Integration supports distribution and packaging facilities by optimizing their control systems. Our engineers use barcode interfaces and identification technology to jumpstart an efficient delivery process.
Food & Beverage
Whether you’re developing alternative proteins or launching the latest beer, we’ll make sure that your automation and control systems are up to the challenge. We leverage systems like OEE reporting and SCADA to support manufacturing and distribution, so you can be on the industry’s front lines.
Our Industrial Capabilities
You represent the future, and we’re here to support your growth. Our industrial capabilities focus on automating, validating, and scaling your production lines so you can focus on changing the world.
Your facility is facing increasing demand and strict regulatory standards, both of which require a consistent and proactive approach to manufacturing processes. As labor shortages place strain on the industrial sector, process automation is paramount. Banks Integration offers the following process automation capabilities:
- Specifications: URS, FS, SDS, HDS
- Continuous & Batch Process Controls
- PlantPAx Logix Batch Sequence Manager (LBSM)
- Software Development: PLC/DCS/HMI/PC/Custom
- Database programming and reporting
- Safety Circuit Design
- Electrical Design
- Instrumentation
- Documentation
- Fabrication
- Networking & Data Communications
- Project Management
- Turnkey Project Implementation
- Staging & Simulation
- Startup & Commissioning
- Training
- Virtualization
Stellar material handling is the foundation of a reliable production line. Staying ahead in your competitive industry means moving products and raw materials through the process efficiently, and Banks Integration’s material handling solutions will help you get there. We offer turnkey solutions, as well as system upgrades, to bolster your order fulfillment.
Our material handling solutions include:
- Balance of Plant, Integration
- Machine Safety
- Packaging Systems
- Motion Control
- Material Handling Systems
- Legacy upgrades, PLC-2, PLC-5, DCS
- Legacy Conversion Validator
- Barcode Systems
Control system errors and misalignments are costly, disrupting production timelines and employee workflow. Our engineers help you stay ahead of these errors by improving your control system validation systems. Whether retrofitting a system or designing your processes from scratch, we choose the right technology for your industry goals and standards.
Our control system validation offerings include:
- GAMP5: Risk-based assessment.
- Biotech: Fermentation, recovery systems, waste systems, autoclaves, lyophilizers, HTST.
- Pharmaceuticals: Coaters, mixing tanks, laser drilling, granulators, table presses, mills, blenders, transdermal pouch assemblies
- Utilities: PW and WFI water systems, CIP, distribution systems, HVAC systems
- 21 CFR Part 11
When manufacturing essential products, downtime is not an option. You need an IT infrastructure that you can rely on day and night. The experts at Banks Integration provide industry-specific information and IT solutions to keep your operations secure and operational. Our comprehensive information technology services include:
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
- Information systems, OEE
- Redundant Servers
- Server-Based Virtualization
- Gateway to PLC Networks (DH+/ControlNET to Ethernet)
- Photo/Video identification systems
- Web-based reporting (VantagePoint)
- Historian databases
Experience You Can Trust
Banks Integration’s engineers haven’t just worked in the automation sector, we’ve lived it. Our team has spent decades on the user side, so we’ve experienced your challenges firsthand. When working with us, you can expect innovative consulting services tailored to your unique business goals.