Tabor Sales & Automation is an Elyria-based, family-owned industrial automation and service-coordination company created to help manufacturers, OEMs, robotics teams and industrial operations solve problems that rarely fit within a single specialty.
Our foundation reflects the experience of Founder and CEO Travis Tabor, whose background combines industrial controls, control panel fabrication, automation support and more than 15 years of sales experience. That combination helps us understand both sides of an industrial project: the technical work required to move it forward and the clear communication needed to keep customers, specialists and decision-makers aligned.
TSA is also supported by a growing collection of team members and trusted partners who bring years of management experience and cross-industry specialization. These different perspectives help us better understand each customer’s operation, identify the real source of a problem and coordinate the appropriate technical, manufacturing, software, reliability or logistics capability. Our vision is to bring a singular industrial ecosystem to the market—a one-stop shop where customers can begin with the problem instead of searching for every individual provider themselves. Our niche is not one isolated specialty. Our niche is bringing many specialties together through one coordinated and accountable path.
Tabor Sales & Automation is grounded in real production environments: controls, panels, equipment, downtime pressure and the need for solutions that are practical to run and maintain.
Automation Support addresses technical service needs. Service Coordination helps customers reach specialized partner capabilities through one accountable sales and solutions path.
Tabor Sales & Automation connects customers with partners for predictive maintenance, panels, controls engineering, CNC, asset tracking, MES/SCADA, documentation, logistics and cost recovery.
Customers can discuss needs, constraints and next steps before moving into the right technical, manufacturing, software or logistics conversation with a partner.
We start with the equipment, process, pain point and goal. The work may involve uptime, controls, wiring, integration, sourcing, safety, visibility, cost or logistics.
We determine whether the need fits our direct automation support or should be coordinated through a specialist partner for engineering, software, manufacturing or logistics.
We help keep the conversation clear by aligning scope, partner roles, requirements and practical next steps before work moves into execution or quoting.
We stay focused on follow-through: practical communication, coordinated resources and outcomes that help production, projects and customer conversations move forward.
Through TSA’s direct capabilities and carefully selected partner relationships, customers can access support involving industrial automation, Allen-Bradley PLC programming, control panels, robotics integration, digital manufacturing, predictive management, MES and SCADA systems, precision manufacturing, inspection technology, equipment reliability, logistics and cost recovery.
Every team member and partner is expected to reflect the principles that guide TSA: honesty, discretion and upfront communication. Our vetting process is intended to ensure that the specialists brought into our ecosystem have the experience, professionalism and service standards necessary to represent those values.
We do not believe in forcing every customer into the same solution. We listen to the operational problem, clarify what TSA can support directly and connect the customer with qualified specialists when additional expertise is required. The result is a more practical route from the initial challenge to the right people, the right capabilities and the right next step.
Hello, my name is Travis Tabor, Founder and CEO of Tabor Sales & Automation. I bring more than eight years of hands-on experience in industrial automation, control panel fabrication and industrial controls, along with more than 15 years of sales and customer-development experience. Working across different industries has shown me that the strongest solutions often come from combining technical knowledge, practical experience and different professional perspectives.
I founded Tabor Sales & Automation as an Elyria-based, family-owned business with a vision of building a dependable industrial solutions ecosystem that could serve customers today and eventually be passed down through my family for generations. That ecosystem helps companies access difficult-to-find skill sets—including dependable control panel fabricators, industrial programmers and in-house technical support—while also connecting them with specialized capabilities in plant-floor data and manufacturing intelligence, predictive equipment diagnostics, regulated process integration, visual inspection technology, precision component manufacturing, equipment reliability and logistics cost recovery.
Throughout my career, I have seen too many companies struggle to find dependable control panel fabricators, industrial programmers and in-house technical support. When controls need to be modified, production software must be updated or an operational problem crosses several specialties, businesses are often forced to coordinate multiple disconnected vendors. I created TSA to provide a clearer, one-stop path to the right combination of industrial automation support, manufacturing capabilities and specialized expertise.
My approach to business is straightforward: be honest, be upfront and protect the customer’s discretion. Over the years, I have found that these qualities matter more than promises or warranties. Customers deserve to understand what can be done, who will be responsible and what the next step will be—without exaggeration, unnecessary complexity or hidden expectations.
Industrial automation
Allen-Bradley PLC
Practical execution
