Rockford Systems LLC

Rockford Systems, LLC is an industrial machine safety company headquartered at 5795 Logistics Parkway in Rockford, Illinois. Founded in 1971, the company has operated for more than fifty years supplying machine safeguarding, lockout/tagout, and combustion safety equipment to US manufacturers. Sal Contreras, previously an executive at Marmon Holdings, a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary, serves as chief executive officer.

The machine safeguarding catalog includes more than 10,000 products such as light curtains, laser area scanners, emergency stop devices, interlock switches, press control systems, safety shields, and hand-feeding tools, and the company states its equipment has safeguarded more than 70,000 machines. Its lockout/tagout line covers safety padlocks, hasps, cable lockouts, and lockout kits, supported by the company's own RS LOTO software and mobile app for tracking compliance. A separate combustion safety line supplies burners, valves, pressure switches, regulators, and custom valve train systems for industrial furnaces and ovens, built partly through a partnership with Plibrico Refractory.

Rockford Systems conducts machine safety risk audits referencing OSHA, ANSI B11, and NFPA standards, and reports serving more than 5,000 clients nationwide while delivering over 300 hours of safety training a year.