Company Profile
Bachelor Controls Inc. (BCI) is a leading provider of control and systems integration solutions for manufacturers, with a focused experience across the food and beverage, petfood, pharmaceutical, plastics, specialty chemicals, and feed and grain industries. Founded in 1983, BCI has built a reputation for delivering disciplined, structured methodologies that yield consistent, high-quality performance. The company has developed a mature suite of batch processing capabilities, including the BCI CORE and an array of batch software solutions that range from elementary single-scale, single-hopper setups to highly flexible ISA-88 configurations. This architecture enables optimized asset utilization and scalable batch operations management, enabling clients to map operations, identify improvement opportunities, and implement digital transformation through IoT-enabled insights. BCI emphasizes collaboration with clients to drive improvements in accuracy, efficiency, and process control across batch-intensive processes such as cooking extrusion for food, distillation of high purity alcohol and bourbon, modified starch production, margarines and dressings, and various dryers. The company highlights its ability to deliver comprehensive batch control in a modular, scalable fashion, supported by its offering of a batch operations management layer above real-time control systems. Geographically, Bachelor Controls operates from Sabetha, Kansas, with a presence in the Kansas City metro area and Memphis, Tennessee, underscoring its national footprint in the United States. The organization has earned several notable partnerships and certifications, including Charter CSIA Certification, Charter Rockwell Automation Solution Partner, and Microsoft Certified Partner, reflecting its commitment to industry standards and technology partnerships. The team positions itself as honest, integrity-driven, and continuously improving, with a focus on skilled, innovative problem solving and reliable customer service. Bachelor Controls’ customers rely on robust controls, data collection, and the intelligent use of information to optimize batch operations, quality, and overall plant performance. The company’s public materials reference Case Histories and a broad portfolio of process solutions, illustrating tangible outcomes and successful implementations across multiple sectors. Looking forward, BCI intends to continue expanding its batch control and systems integration capabilities, leveraging partnerships and certifications to support digital transformation initiatives in the process industries, while maintaining a client-centric approach to delivering dependable, user-friendly control systems and actionable information.