Industrial & Manufacturing Solutions
Preserving proprietary process knowledge and modernizing automation infrastructure for manufacturers where downtime costs hundreds of thousands of dollars per hour.
Industrial manufacturers depend on automation and control systems that have been developed and refined over decades. These systems — often built on legacy VAX, Alpha, and OpenVMS platforms — manage everything from batch processing and recipe execution to quality control and production tracking. The process knowledge embedded in these applications is irreplaceable and represents a massive capital investment.
As hardware reaches end-of-life and vendor support expires, manufacturers face a critical decision: risk catastrophic failure on aging systems, or modernize without disrupting production. Salem Automation has spent over two decades solving this exact problem. Our phased migration strategies preserve every line of proprietary logic while moving to modern, supportable platforms — maintaining 100% production uptime throughout the transition.
Providing Tangible Value
- Protect millions of dollars in legacy application investment through migration,
- Eliminate single points of failure from unsupported hardware and end-of-life software
- Maintain continuous production uptime with Shadow Mode parallel deployment strategies
- Enable enterprise integration — production tracking, quality data, and workflow management
- Reduce mean time to repair and total cost of ownership with modern infrastructure
Industrial and Manufacturing — Products, Services & Solutions
Services
24/7 mission-critical support with tiered response SLAs
- Steady-state annual support contracts with knowledge transition
OpenVMS system administration and cluster management
- Legacy SCADA and HMI replacement
Proactive remote monitoring and management
Manufacturing application maintenance and enhancement
- Operator training and structured go-live programs
- 100% North American-based support
Solutions
- vtALPHA and vtVAX virtualization of Alpha and VAX systems
- FORTRAN / C / Pascal to Python and C# migration
- DOS-based HMI to Windows-based SCADA modernization
- VAX-to-PLC Ethernet communication (Allen Bradley)
- Serial RS-232 to Ethernet protocol conversion
Shadow Mode phased deployment with zero downtime
Large-scale data migration (100 TB+) with zero data loss
Custom application Modernization and support