February 6, 2026

AUTOSOL Promotes Trent Franklin to Vice President of SCADA & Engineering

Houston, TX – February 9, 2026 – AUTOSOL, a leading provider of industrial automation, SCADA, and operational data solutions, today announced the promotion of Trent Franklin to Vice President of SCADA & Engineering.

In this expanded role, Franklin will lead AUTOSOL’s SCADA & Engineering strategy, overseeing solution architecture, engineering execution, and technical delivery across oil & gas, utilities, and other critical infrastructure markets. His promotion reflects AUTOSOL’s continued investment in technical leadership as customers modernize operations while maintaining complex, distributed systems.

Under Franklin’s leadership, AUTOSOL has strengthened its position as a vendor-agnostic solution provider, with engineering expertise across multiple SCADA platforms, including Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Geo SCADA Expert, Inductive Automation Ignition, and Weatherford CygNet. His team has also expanded its focus to support modern IIoT solutions, helping customers evolve their data strategies beyond traditional polling models toward more efficient, event-driven, and scalable architectures.

“Trent brings deep technical expertise combined with a practical, customer-first mindset,” said Collin LaFavers, COO at AUTOSOL. “Our customers operate in demanding environments and often across multiple platforms. Trent’s leadership ensures we continue delivering solutions that work with what customers have today and where they’re going next.”

Franklin has played a pivotal role in guiding customers through system expansion, integration, and modernization initiatives; delivering improvements without disrupting mission-critical operations.

“AUTOSOL has always been a customer-first, technology-driven organization”, said Franklin. “I’m excited to lead the SCADA team in developing solutions that challenge conventional approaches, improve operational processes, advance modern architectures, and deliver real value to the people who rely on them every day.”

For more information about AUTOSOL, visit https://autosoln.com/.

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About AUTOSOL

Founded in 1987, AUTOSOL is a privately held industrial automation and solutions provider supporting mission-critical infrastructure across energy, utilities, manufacturing, water/wastewater, and other industrial markets. AUTOSOL delivers reliable, flexible solutions designed to operate in real-world environments where uptime, accuracy, and scalability matter.

AUTOSOL combines vendor-agnostic engineering expertise with proprietary, patented software products to help customers design, operate, and evolve industrial systems. The company brings deep experience across the full SCADA ecosystem, from field devices and communications to system architecture, integration, and the HMIs used to visualize operations, while supporting a wide range of SCADA platforms and technology partners.

At the core of AUTOSOL’s product portfolio are its patented AUTOSOL Communication Manager (ACM) and eACM solutions, which provide resilient, scalable data movement between field assets, control systems, and enterprise applications. These platforms are purpose-built for distributed, remote, and bandwidth-constrained environments, helping customers improve data reliability, reduce operational risk, and support regulatory and reporting requirements.

In addition to traditional SCADA engineering, AUTOSOL supports modern industrial data architectures, including IIoT and MQTT-based data movement, enabling event-driven, extensible systems while continuing to support and extend legacy infrastructure. This balanced approach allows customers to modernize at their own pace, without unnecessary disruption.

Headquartered in Houston, Texas, AUTOSOL is committed to helping operators deliver reliable data today while preparing for what’s next.

For more information, visit https://autosoln.com.

Media Contact:
Suzzette Rainey
Executive VP, Global Business Development
AUTOSOL
srainey@autosoln.com
281-286-6017