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A-Z with DRC

05/28/2025

At Design Ready Controls, We Solve Control Panel Problems — and we can show you just how we do it from A to Z! Each letter represents a part of…[more]

How We Do It – Ramp Up Plans

04/10/2025

Ramp-Up Plans Design Ready Controls’ standard process is to meet our customer requirements through the design, implementation, and execution of a production ramp-up plan. Production ramp-up plans connect customer orders…[more]

Manufacturing Heroes

11/22/2024

It is an honor to be part of the industry serving as the foundation of the United States - manufacturing. The greatest honor though is the opportunity I have to…[more]

Educational Partnerships & Collaboration

09/10/2024

As a recent college graduate, I had the opportunity to work with companies on different marketing projects. As a new member of the Design Ready Controls team, I quickly noticed…[more]

Internship Spotlight: Minseok Lee

07/23/2024

School and degree: Minnesota State University, Mankato | Manufacturing Engineering Technology Internship Focus: Quality Engineer Intern About Minseok: Minseok was born in South Korea and came to the United States…[more]

Intern Spotlight: Brady Hubbard

08/04/2023

Brady Hubbard School/Degree: University of Wisconsin Platteville  Internship: Quality Engineering Intern Brady is from Maple Grove, MN and currently studying and playing baseball at the University of Wisconsin Platteville. Outside…[more]

Automated Wire Harness Testing Upgraded with the Cirris Systems CH2

08/20/2018

We have a testing board at Design Ready Controls called AWESOME. It has been around just long enough that no one can remember what its initials stand for. Automated Wiring…[more]

Lean Coordinator Sets the Stage for Savings

06/26/2018

Lean manufacturing—the elimination of waste As a kid, I wanted to be an inventor. I wanted to help people. No one had told me what an engineer was or what…[more]

A New Twist on Torque Quality

05/08/2018

A Culture of Continuous Improvement At Design Ready Controls, we have always challenged the standards of control panel manufacturing. In more than a decade of growth and innovation, we have…[more]

Automated Panel Expert (APE®) Leads in Control Panel Manufacturing

03/27/2018

I once called Design Ready Controls, “The most automated control panel manufacturer in the world,” without realizing that they’d put it on all of our banners. I had a good…[more]