Food Control Solutions News

July 2010

Promotion of Joe Ewen

As of July 29, 2010, Joe Ewen has been promoted to the position of General Manager in the Southern Region. He will be assuming control and responsibility of all areas of sales and operation in the region.

May 2010

Randy Barbagalllo joins FCS in the Charlotte office

Randy is from Granite Falls, NC. He has four years of controls experience using products from Allen Bradley/Rockwell, Automation Direct, GE, Yaskawa, and VB/SQL. He has worked with rubber machine manufacturing and various packaging industries.

December 2009

Allen Filipic Announces Retirement

Al, one of the founders of Food Control Solutions, has announced he will be retiring at the end of 2009. Al has been instrumental in starting and growing FCS into the company it is today. Even though Al is retiring, he is not likely to have a lot of free time. Al will maintain a consulting role with FCS, staying ready to pitch in when the need arises. In addition, he will be pursuing an interest in flipping real estate. We wish Al the best of luck in his golden years. Joe Ewen will assume Al's duties in his new role as Senior Sales Engineer.

September 2009

Ned Storer joins FCS in the Charlotte office

Ned joins the FCS team as a Controls Engineer. He has four years of controls experience. Ned has moved to the Charlotte area from Wisconsin. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin with a EE degree and is pursuing PE certification. Ned is well versed in Allen Bradley/Rockwell products and has over 4 years of industry experience primarily with conveyor systems, networked drive systems (including DeviceNet), and RFID.

August 2009

Joe Ewen joins FCS in the Charlotte office

Joe joins the FCS team as a Sr. Systems Engineer with over 30 years of Industrial Automation experience. Joe was a plant engineer in his previous job. He has experience with Allen Bradley/Rockwell, Siemens, Eurotherm, VB, VBA, and SQL, as well as skills in project management, process and industrial engineering. He likes to build aircraft in his spare time, and is currently building a "4 place composite canard aircraft." Joe hopes that this aircraft will achieve a top speed of 250 MPH and be fully certified for flight in instrument conditions.

August 2009

Tom Huff joins FCS in the Cleveland office

Tom joins FCS as Systems Engineer for the Cleveland office. Tom comes to FCS with over 20 years of Industrial Automation experience. He has experience with RSLogix, Panelviews, Siemens PLCs, and Wonderware.

August 2009

Tim Maxwell joins the Cleveland office

Tim is a new addition to FCS Cleveland staff as a CAD designer. Tim brings over 14 years of diversified CAD experience to the company.