Control Southern
Control Southern

Welcome to Control Southern, the local leader in delivering superior value and financial results to industry in the Southeast. We are pleased you have chosen to visit our web site, and hope you’ll find the information organized and helpful. If you have any suggestion on how we can improve this site to better serve you, please write to me personally at doug.turner@controlsouthern.com.

Since 1956, Control Southern’s goal has been to partner with industry leaders to improve profits, thus, spurring continued capital and MRO investment in their mills and plants. The hidden money we unleash through process and process automation improvement can create jobs and keep manufacturing right here in the Southeast. Our unique combination of valuable process expertise and leading solutions from our business partners, such as Emerson Process Management, create a value add formula unmatched in the process automation industry. Control Southern’s expert team of consulting engineers and support staff has over 750 years combined experience in making a difference in the financial performance of our Pulp and Paper, Chemical, Power, Natural Gas, Textiles, Life Sciences, and Food & Beverage customers. Whether through engineering firms, OEM’s, contractors, or direct with our end users, we get the job done right!

Our passion is servant leadership. We invest in our people, our customers, and our business partners so each can make a difference in the lives of their families, communities, and employers. Our reward is finding solutions to the tough process challenges in industry today. We approach these challenges with a balance of engineering and financial strategy, resulting in solutions that solve problems and deliver value. At Control Southern, we can make the difference.

Thank you for your trust and your business. Let us know how Control Southern can make a difference for you.

Doug Turner
President

Our Mission

"Leadership in our marketplace for building promising futures by providing with excellence the highest economic value add through the quality delivery of the best fit solutions of automation technology and services."

Overview

Control Southern, with headquarters in Atlanta, GA., was founded over a half century ago as a sales representative for The Fisher Governor Company. Control Southern’s beginning as a regional sales organization has evolved over the years becoming an engineering and consulting business along with a sales and service organization in the southeastern U.S. Our expertise offers the design and implementation of process management solutions and asset optimization services for our customers in many industries such as: Pulp & Paper, Chemical, Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology, Power Generation, Gas Distribution and Transmission, Food & Beverage and Textiles along with OEMs who serve these industries.

Supplementing our automation technical applications skills and process industry manufacturing knowledge, we have become a complete process industries solution provider through the products and services available from our strong, legacy affiliation with Emerson Process Management and several solid partnerships we maintain with predominant suppliers of many other products for the process industries. This combination has enabled us to provide our customers with the profit improvement solutions to their business challenges that our company is known for.

There is no wonder why our customers have consistently turned to us for providing process knowledge, product applications expertise and the service focus they require!

Control Southern provides the know-how that you count on each day. Each of our Account Managers, Applications Engineering and Project Management teams all hold degrees in highly technical fields and have an average of over 12 years of experience within the process industries.

  • Each of our Process Specialists and Process Control Engineers have an average of over 15 years of process optimization experience in the Pulp & Paper, Chemicals, Pharmaceutical, Power Generation and Food & Beverage industries.
  • Each of our Automation Project Managers have an average of nearly 20 years of industry experience in automation project implementation, field engineering, system architecture and bus design, project management, staging, integration, installation, start-up and commissioning.
  • Our factory certified Field Service Specialists have an average of nearly 20 years of DCS and PLC installation, troubleshooting, preventative and corrective maintenance experience.
  • Within our facility we maintain dedicated space for valve automation assembly, calibration and testing by factory trained service technicians along with extensive valve, actuator, positioner and regulator inventory for meeting your emergency situations.
  • We offer warranted refurbishment of automatic valve assemblies, actuators, positioners, transducers and transmitters.

Quality Policy Statement


Our mission at Control Southern is to provide Leadership in our marketplace by providing our customers, with excellence, the highest economic value add, as experienced through the quality delivery of the best fit solutions of automation technology and services.

Control Southern Inc. is committed to achieving this mission through an innovative Quality System focused on total customer satisfaction.

To fulfill our company mission, we are committed to maintain a practical but comprehensive Quality System based on quality at the source and continuous improvement of our processes.

Our Quality Mission embraces the following key goals

  • Focus on satisfaction of customers, both external and internal, is our primary quality goal
  • Systems and controls shall be prevention based to foster more effective decision making
  • Suppliers and Vendors are an integral part of the quality process and Control Southern employees shall work closely with them to meet our customer's needs
  • Employees shall be well trained and provided with procedures developed from best practices to aid them in providing quality support to our customers
  • All employees shall have individual responsibility for understanding and supporting our Quality mission in the performance of their tasks
  • Quality will be measured at each step of the work flow
    process to ensure Quality at the source
  • Company management is fully committed to supporting
    our Quality Policy and Mission through active
    participation in quality improvement activities and
    oversight