Defense, Aerospace, Security

From control room to control panel, our industry-leading HMIs features include Capacitive Touchscreens, Wi-Fi, Dual Ethernet, Remote Access, IIoT protocols such as MQTT, Ignition, SparkPlug B, and more. Integrate with a Maple Systems solutions with your current PLC solution. Our HMIs support Allen-Bradley ControlLogix, Siemens SIMATIC, Emerson, and Mitsubishi MELSEC PLCs PLUS over 400 other leading PLC and controllers in our free configuration software, EBPro.

Maple Systems’ PLCs offer position control, PWM, PID with auto-tuning, High-Speed Counter (HSC), and more features to aid you in your control’s solution. Our PLCs adapt to a wide variety of applications, which makes them ideal for complex control systems, ensuring your automation setup grows alongside your business. Get your control system up and running in no time with our easy-to-implement PLCs. Reliable replacements or additions to small-medium scale control systems at an affordable price.

Our Industrial PCs can serve as an intelligent building automation terminal and come with a Windows® Operating System installed that can operate any Windows® Software, powerful SCADA software such as Allen-Bradley’s FactoryTalk® View, Ignition™, AVEVA™ and SIMATIC WinCC, or configure them using programming languages such as Visual Basic, Python and C++, providing you with flexible options.

Our network switches provide a high level of immunity against EMI and EMS found in industrial environments; and include features such as ESD Protection, Surge Protection, and Short Circuit Protection to ensure continuous operation in unstable power conditions. Additional capabilities like dual redundant power inputs, auto-negotiation, rate limitation, reverse polarity protection, flow and storm control, VLAN data forwarding, and QoS further optimize network performance and enhance security.

Utilized worldwide to employ diverse applications, our HMI+PLCs lower costs, save space, and feature options including: Serial and Ethernet communication and numerous I/O configurations. Programmed using our Free HMI+PLC software MAPware-7000, you get access to graphs, alarms, trending, data logging, web server functionality and more, providing an affordable combination of display and control in a single package.

In the defense sector, industrial controls regulate everything from automated ammunition manufacturing lines to naval vessel power distribution. These systems must meet strict certification standards for ruggedization. This ensures they can withstand extreme temperatures, shock, vibration, and electromagnetic interference.

• Weapon Systems Manufacturing: Automated assembly lines rely on tightly synchronized robotics and motion control systems to mass-produce ordnance, guided missiles, and armored vehicle chassis with zero defects.
• Base Operations and Logistics: Supervisory systems manage fuel storage depot distribution, automated supply chain warehousing, and microgrid power management across tactical forward operating bases.
• Naval Propulsion and Utilities: Embedded machinery control systems (MCS) oversee complex warship environments, regulating turbine propulsion, steering gear, auxiliary power generation, and damage control valves.

Aerospace applications demand absolute precision. Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems ensure that critical components are machined to exact tolerances, where a discrepancy of a millimeter can compromise structural integrity.

• Advanced Aerostructure Machining: Multi-axis CNC machines and automated fiber placement systems use high-fidelity feedback loops to fabricate composite wings and fuselages that survive extreme aerodynamic stresses.
• Testing and Flight Simulation: Environmental test chambers use specialized controllers to simulate the vacuum of space, radical thermal cycling, and high-G forces on avionics packages before deployment.
• Launch Pad Automation: Ground support equipment (GSE) for rocket launches employs highly redundant control architectures to manage cryogenic fuel loading, umbilical disconnect sequencing, and blast suppression water systems.

As physical industrial controls increasingly connect to digital networks, the intersection of cybersecurity and operational technology (OT) is paramount. Protecting critical infrastructure—such as power grids, water treatment facilities, and government installations—requires secure industrial control networks.

• Hardened Perimeter Defenses: Industrial control hardware inside physical security infrastructure coordinates automated access control gates, biometric checkpoints, and remote surveillance pan-tilt-zoom platforms.
• OT Cyber Resilience: Because traditional IT security tools can crash industrial hardware, specialized network monitoring tools analyze proprietary industrial protocols (like Modbus or DNP3) to flag anomalous data injection.
• Supply Chain Integrity: Defense contractors rely on hardware-enforced root-of-trust components within PLCs and edge gateways to verify that no counterfeit or tampered microchips enter the control loop.

Space-focused industrial controls within mission control centers and ground stations manage the complex data links, heavy machinery, and environmental baselines required to maintain uninterrupted orbital operations and defense monitoring.

• Antenna Tracking and Motion Control: Satellite ground stations rely on heavy-duty, high-precision motion control systems to steer massive tracking antennas.
• Ground Segment Cybersecurity and Gateway Isolation: Industrial edge gateways use hardware-enforced unidirectional security gateways (data diodes) to ensure that command telemetry can reach the satellite, but malicious actors cannot pivot from the internet into critical orbital controls.
• Control Room Environmental and Power Redundancy: Supervisory systems (SCADA) manage industrial-grade uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), backup generators, and specialized HVAC systems to prevent server overheating and ensure defensive space tracking never goes dark.

Maple Systems can serve as your guide, making it an easy process to join the next evolution of automated control. Maple Systems HMIs, Gateways, and Industrial PCs are your gateway to the IIoT. Our products are an access point enabling operating equipment in the field or on the plant floor to connect to information technologies of the World Wide Web, databases, smart phones, analytic software, and more. Achieve better access to invaluable data and open up a world of possibilities for your business.