Automation and custom software along Latham's Route 7 corridor
Latham reads like a suburb but employs like a small city. Along Routes 7 and 9, clean-energy manufacturers, defense suppliers, and airport-adjacent distributors have quietly built one of the denser industrial employment clusters in Albany County.
That mix suits us. Willowark designs machine vision systems, industrial IoT and edge deployments, and the custom software that connects production equipment to the business systems above it. When a Latham operation outgrows spreadsheets and manual checks, that is usually where we come in.
We are based in the Saratoga area, about twenty-five minutes north, and we do the work on-site: scoping on your floor, commissioning on your schedule.
About 23 miles from our Saratoga Springs base, straight-line — inside the area we cover on site.
The area we know
What Latham actually makes and moves.
Latham's industrial parks host fuel-cell and clean-energy production, precision manufacturers, and defense-facing suppliers, alongside the distribution activity that comes with sitting next to an airport and two arterial highways. These are technically demanding operations with real quality and traceability requirements, and the bar for engineering partners here is appropriately high.
Industries around Latham
- Clean energy and fuel cell manufacturing
- Defense and aerospace suppliers
- Precision manufacturing
- Distribution and logistics
- Aviation support services
What we do in Latham
The four capabilities this area asks for most.
Industrial Automation
Manufacturing automation, machine integration, IIoT, production monitoring, and industrial AI for the plant floor.
Learn more →IoT & Smart Systems
Raspberry Pi and embedded systems, smart sensors, electrical and energy monitoring, gateways, and edge computing.
Learn more →Vision & Advanced Sensing
Machine vision, AI inspection, laser measurement, 3D vision, radar, X-ray integration, and sensor fusion.
Learn more →Systems Integration
We make technologies that weren't designed together work as one system — hardware, software, machines, and cloud.
Learn more →Chosen from the industry mix above. All eight capabilities →
Where's the site?
Tell us about the Latham operation.
We can usually be there for a site walk within the week. One line about what runs by hand or is not connected is enough to start.
Common questions
Asked by teams in Latham.
Can Willowark integrate with the PLCs already running our Latham plant?
In most cases, yes. We work with common platforms including Allen-Bradley, Siemens, and Beckhoff, and we routinely add vision, data collection, or new stations to existing lines. We start by reading what is there before proposing anything new.
Do you take on smaller Latham manufacturers, or only large plants?
Both. A meaningful share of our work is with shops under fifty people who need one well-built system, not a facility-wide program. Projects are scoped to the size of the problem.
How quickly can you get to a site in Latham?
We are about twenty-five minutes away by the Northway, so same-week site visits are normal and urgent situations can usually be seen faster. Ongoing support is a mix of remote access and scheduled visits.
Strategy. Software. Systems.
Engineering, on-site in Latham.
Describe the problem in your own words. An engineer reads it — not a sales script — and tells you plainly what it would take.