Eric Wales
President
Leads WCG’s work at the intersection of plant operations, automation, and measurable business performance.
About WCG
Engineers who build it, and stay accountable for it.
Wales Consulting Group is a small team of controls and software engineers in Utah. We connect plant-floor equipment to the business case for improving it, and we build the system ourselves.
Book a 30-min operations reviewOur team
The people you’ll work with
Logan Marquis
Automation Engineer
Builds connected automation and data systems that make operational information easier to use.
Austin Crawford
Controls & Automation Engineer
Develops controls and automation solutions focused on dependable operation and practical maintainability.
Principles
How we work
- 01
ROI before technology
We start with what the problem costs, then choose the technology that pays it back.
- 02
Direct access to the engineers
The people who scope your system are the people who build it.
- 03
Fixed scope, clear deliverables
You know what you’re getting and what it covers before we start.
- 04
You own everything we build
Project files, code, databases and documentation are yours at handover.
What you own
A typical WCG system
Customer-ownedCustomer-owned: code, project files, databases, documentation
Plant floor
- PLCs: Rockwell (Allen-Bradley), Siemens
- Drives
- Sensors
- Existing HMIs
OPC UA · MQTT / Sparkplug B
Ignition gateway
- Tags
- Historian
- Alarming
- Reporting
- Scripting
SQL database
Your team uses
- Operator & supervisor screens (desktop, TV, mobile)
- Maintenance & inventory apps
- Automated reports by email
- Private AI assistant (on your infrastructure)
Tools we work with
- Ignition
- Inductive Automation
- Allen-Bradley
- ControlLogix
- CompactLogix
- Siemens
- OPC UA
- MQTT / Sparkplug B
- PostgreSQL
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Python
Start with the constraint
What’s costing your operation the most right now?
Tell us what’s costing the operation; we’ll tell you in one call whether there’s a return worth chasing.
No sales presentation required. A short conversation is usually enough to determine whether there’s a real opportunity.