Mid America Consultants, Inc. is a Midwest-based consulting engineering/systems integration firm, specializing in controls. The company's diverse set of projects serving a variety of industries helps them to utilize best-in-class ideas from one industry and cross pollinate them into other industries. Their staff is comprised of engineers with electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering degrees. This level of education and diverse work backgrounds enable them to quickly access and understand a project, particularly in a continuous process control application. The company has a track record of completing difficult and unique projects. They have successfully completed batch control, motion control, continuous process control, and just the run-of-the-mill discrete logic type control projects. Communication networks centralizing the control of systems scattered over large geographical area is a specialty. The company has even connected the boardroom to the factory floor, tying the accounting systems and control systems together. Downtime analysis programs and productivity improvements through modifying the control system is an increasing part of their workload. The companies smallest project contained about 12 I/O. Their largest contained over 8,500 I/O. Mid America Consultants also has a power electrical engineer on staff. This enables them to easily handle large motor and VFD projects, large UPS systems, harmonic analysis of power systems, and power system analysis and protective relay studies.