Carlson Engineering

Carlson Engineering offers automation, fabrication, installation, and software services. The job it does: building software for you when nothing off the shelf fits.

The natural audience is companies with a specific process to automate. Related areas on their profile: Field Support and Industrial Automation. As a small company team themselves (11 to 50 people), they tend to serve customers of a similar scale best. You will probably talk to the people who build it, which is great until you need 24/7 support.

Carlson Engineering is based in Fort Worth, Texas. Their site is carlsonengineeringinc.com.

Our checklist for this category: portfolio relevance, who owns the code, and how they handle changes. Ask for a trial on your own data, not a canned demo.

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