Flanking an automatic control panel with various electric motors, David Kennedy, left, of Tennessee Automation Services, and Jamey Steffner, with Electric Motor Sales, talk about their energy-saving companies at the Cleveland Bradley Innovation Center.CLEVELAND, Tenn. — A new company here hopes to help other businesses go green in 2012.
Tennessee Automation Services already was moved in and ready for business Friday when the Energy Center opened. The center is a wing of the Cleveland/Bradley Business Incubator that is devoted to startup businesses focused on environmental and energy savings.
Tennessee Automation Services builds automatic control panels.
“Anything industrial that has machines that run, control panels are designed to make them more efficient, to operate automatically only when they are needed,” company founder Sandi Kennedy said.
“Everything we have is custom made,” she said. “Programs are written and designed for this.”