Southern States LLC Tech Stack
High-voltage switching equipment manufacturer for electric utilities
Southern States manufactures disconnect switches, capacitor switching gear, and reactor switching products for electric utilities across North America. The tech stack reveals a hardware-first engineering culture — heavy use of CAD (AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Inventor), simulation (MATLAB, LTspice, COMSOL, ANSYS), and PCB design tools (Altium, EPLAN) — paired with ERP systems (Business Central, Dynamics 365) and manufacturing-control protocols (EtherCAT, Modbus). Hiring is skewed toward manufacturing roles (12 positions) relative to engineering (6), and pain points cluster around production efficiency (setup time, scheduling, weld compliance) rather than product architecture, suggesting the company is optimizing existing manufacturing processes rather than pursuing new platforms.
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What Southern States LLC Is Building
◆Challenges
- Inventory management inefficiencies
- Scheduling bottlenecks
- Reducing machine tool set up
- Improving material storage
- Improving labor productivity
- Identifying new market opportunities
- Maintaining product quality
- Ensuring compliance with order specifications
- Verifying shipping compliance
- Maintaining weld quality compliance
▲Active Projects
- Pcb design refinement
- Prototype validation
- Tooling and production method development
- Material storage analysis and improvement
- Machine tool set up reduction
- Mobile projects
- Mechanical and electrical drawing packages for medium and high voltage substation equipment
- Support proposal activities with design concepts and drawings
