Distribution & Service Upgrades
Switchgear, switchboards, busway, and panelboards sized for large motor loads and future expansion — plus service and capacity upgrades phased around production.
Service & distribution →Tucson, Arizona
Industrial Electrician in Tucson, AZ
Arizona Electrical Solutions is a Tucson-based industrial electrical contractor for manufacturing plants, distribution centers, and warehouses. We engineer and self-perform heavy power distribution, machine power, motor controls, and high-bay lighting — phased around live production. Request a bid →
Industrial Electrical
One industrial contractor, from the service to the machine
When a facility or plant manager searches for an industrial electrician, the need is usually one of a handful of things: more capacity, power to new equipment, drives and controls that behave, better light on the floor, or a plan for the next outage. We do all of it from one office at 333 N Wilmot Road in Tucson — our in-house engineers size the system, and our own licensed crews install and commission it. With four Arizona ROC licenses and an owned Cat® equipment fleet, we can also wrap trenching, duct banks, and construction into one design-build contract.
Industrial work is bid on capacity and won on uptime. Production facilities cannot tolerate unplanned downtime, so we plan shutdowns once, phase them tight, and bring the system back online with the same crew that opened it. See the full industrial & warehouse market page or our electrical services overview.
Machine Power, MCCs & VFDs
Machine connections and disconnects, motor control centers, starters, and variable-frequency drives — installed, terminated, and integrated with the plant's controls.
Motor controls & VFDs →Arc-Flash & Coordination Studies
Short-circuit, coordination, and arc-flash hazard studies per NFPA 70E and IEEE 1584 — with labels installed on the gear and corrections self-performed.
Arc-flash & power studies →Capacity
Industrial power distribution & service upgrades
Everything in a plant hangs off the distribution. We install the switchgear, switchboards, busway, and panelboards that carry an industrial facility's load, set the transformers, and route the heavy feeders that move power across a large building — every connection torqued and tested, and every piece sized by our in-house engineering for the real connected load.
When the plant outgrows its service
When a plant adds a line or outgrows its service, we increase the amperage, add or replace gear, and re-feed the facility — often phased around production so the floor never goes fully dark. On the utility side, we coordinate metering, transformer, and point-of-connection requirements with Tucson Electric Power (TEP) or Trico up front, so the energize date stays on schedule. See service & distribution for the full scope, from service entrance through standby power.
Power quality, grounding & studies
Sensitive equipment and drives need clean power. We address grounding, bonding, and power quality — backed by short-circuit, protective-device coordination, and arc-flash studies from our in-house engineering. Gear is installed to match the study, and arc-flash labeling goes on the equipment itself. If your facility's arc-flash and coordination study is out of date, we perform the analysis and self-perform the corrections it surfaces.
Production Equipment
Machine power, motor controls & VFDs
We land power to production machinery, conveyors, compressors, and process equipment — furnishing the disconnects, circuits, and connections each machine's nameplate requires, coordinated with the equipment suppliers.
Motor control centers & drives
We install, bus, and wire motor control centers, starters, and variable-frequency drives, then terminate the field connections and coordinate startup. VFDs modulate motor speed to match demand — a significant energy saver on pumps and fans — and we tie the drives into the plant's controls and monitoring.
Lines that move — without rewiring the bay
For floors where equipment moves, we install plug-in busway so machines can be repowered and relocated without rewiring the whole bay. When a line is added, moved, or retooled, we disconnect, relocate, and reconnect the power — scheduled to minimize lost production hours.
Warehouses & Distribution Centers
High-bay lighting & warehouse fit-outs
For distribution centers and warehouses, we deliver the whole electrical fit-out: service and distribution, equipment power, site lighting, and LED high-bay lighting that puts the right foot-candles at the floor, the racks, and the pick faces. Fixture layout is coordinated with the racking so light reaches down the aisles instead of being blocked, aisle-by-aisle occupancy sensing and zoned controls light only the spaces in use, and for older facilities we retrofit dated HID lighting to LED — often with the utility rebate paperwork handled.
Switchgear
Heavy Distribution Gear
Switchgear our crews set, terminate, and energize on Tucson-area sites.
Distribution
Panels & Transformers
Panelboards and transformers set, labeled, and left with accurate panel schedules.
Lighting
Site & Facility Lighting
Interior, high-bay, and site lighting — installed, retrofitted, and controlled for how the facility actually runs.
Uptime
Standby power & preventive electrical maintenance
For processes that cannot lose power, we install generators, automatic transfer switches, and standby systems that carry critical loads through an outage — no small concern during Tucson's July–September monsoon. Just as important is catching problems before they become downtime.
See the problem before it trips
Power monitoring and sub-metering by area or line show where the power is going — essential for cost allocation and for catching anomalies early. We install the meters, connect them to dashboards, and add load management that sheds or stages loads to keep the facility within its capacity.
Keep the safety program current
NFPA 70E calls for the arc-flash risk assessment to be reviewed at least every five years, or whenever the system changes enough to affect the results — and insurers and safety audits increasingly expect current labels on file. We refresh the studies, relabel the gear, and plan corrective work into your scheduled shutdown windows instead of forcing new ones.
FAQ
Tucson industrial electrical, answered
What industrial electrical work do you self-perform in Tucson?
Heavy power distribution and switchgear, service and capacity upgrades, machine and equipment power, motor control centers and variable-frequency drives, LED high-bay lighting, plug-in busway, standby generators and transfer switches, and controls with power monitoring and sub-metering — designed by our in-house engineering and installed by our own crews.
Can you upgrade our electrical service without shutting down production?
In most facilities, yes. We phase service and capacity upgrades around production so the floor never goes fully dark — shutdowns are planned once, phased tight, and brought back online by the same crew that opened them. We coordinate the utility side with TEP or Trico up front so any outage window is as short and predictable as possible.
Do you install motor control centers and VFDs?
Yes. We install, bus, and wire motor control centers, starters, and variable-frequency drives, terminate the field connections, and coordinate startup. VFDs match motor speed to demand, which typically saves significant energy on pumps and fans, and we integrate the drives with the plant's controls and monitoring.
What does industrial electrical work cost in Tucson?
It depends on the drivers: service size and available fault current, switchgear lead times, the connected load being added, how much of the facility must stay running during the work, and any trenching or underground scope. Send us the connected load and your production windows and we will return a real bid instead of a guess.
Do you perform arc-flash and coordination studies?
Yes. Our in-house engineering performs short-circuit, protective-device coordination, and arc-flash hazard studies per NFPA 70E and IEEE 1584, applies the arc-flash labels on the gear itself, and — unlike a study-only firm — self-performs the corrective distribution work the study surfaces.
Which Tucson industrial areas do you serve?
All of the metro's industrial corridors — the aerospace and defense corridor around Tucson International Airport, the Port of Tucson and the south-side industrial belt, the UA Tech Park at Rita Road, and industrial and logistics users in Marana, Sahuarita, and the wider metro — plus projects statewide across Arizona.
Need an industrial electrician in Tucson?
Tell us the connected load and the production windows. We'll plan the work around keeping the floor running.
Request a Bid Call (520) 308-6235