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Dowland-Bach was founded in
1974 to meet the need for fail-safe wellhead and flowline protection for
the Prudhoe Bay oilfield on the North Slope of Alaska. To date, several
thousand of Dowland-Bach's "Wellhead Control Systems" have been
installed in extreme locations from the North Slope of Alaska to the jungles
of South America.
As technology and the business environment has evolved, so have Dowland-Bach's
manufacturing capabilities. Over the last quarter century, Dowland-Bach's
equipment package designs have been affected by the petroleum industry's
attempt to reduce the size of its production facilities in an effort to
reduce capital costs. As a result of this continual miniaturization effort,
more and more functionality has to be squeezed into smaller and smaller
spaces, while at the same time meeting ever stricter design codes. These
factors led Dowland-Bach to begin fabrication of custom hydraulic/pneumatic
equipment support structures and enclosures of various sizes and configurations.
As our successes with custom enclosures for hydraulic/pneumatic equipment
continued, Dowland-Bach decided to take the next step in the "vertical
integration" process by obtaining our UL50 Electrical Enclosure Certification
for type 3R and 4X enclosures. This allowed Dowland-Bach to manufacture
custom electrical enclosures in a variety of sizes and configurations.
In more recent times, we have expanded our capabilities in the engineering
and design field in order to provide a more comprehensive service to our
clients. We have a strong staff of mechanical, electrical and control
systems engineers in order to maximize the added value provided with our
manufactured control systems and equipment. Our capabilities include 3-D
modeling, control systems design engineering, systems programming and
system testing and startup capabilities. We provide programming services
for PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) systems, HMI (Human Machine Interface)
systems and custom embedded devices.

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