Controls engineer for Santa Rosa & Sonoma County

Sonoma County runs on process plants: food and beverage in Santa Rosa and Petaluma, wineries and bottling across the county, water and wastewater districts, organics and material recovery, aggregates and building products. Strule Automation supports their control systems from Napa, about 45 minutes away — close enough for a same-day visit when a line is down.

We're independent and vendor-neutral. That matters in Sonoma County's plants, where control systems have typically grown over the years — one vendor's PLC on the packaging line, another's on the process side, an integrator long gone. We work across whatever's installed, and we're straight about what's a controls problem and what's a mechanical one.

Local enough to come back

Intermittent faults rarely perform on command. Being based one county over means a return visit is a drive, not a project — we can set a trap for the fault, leave, and come back when it springs. A national integrator bills that as three mobilizations; we treat it as finishing the job.

An honest first conversation

Nobody can promise a fix from the parking lot, and anyone who does is guessing. Describe the fault, and you'll get a straight view on whether it's worth chasing in software or whether it wants a wrench or a purchase order first. The first conversation is free.