Services · PLC & Commissioning
From brief to a running line
Control systems, drives, motion, safety and on-site commissioning on Siemens platforms — one engineer accountable from the first conversation to the day your line runs on its own.
Services
The unglamorous middle of every project, done properly
Anyone can quote the easy part. The value is in the drives that run smoothly first time, the safety that actually validates, and the old device everyone else gave up on finally working.
Control system programming
Siemens S7-1500 / S7-1200 control software written to a consistent, well-documented house standard — and handed over as sources you own, your team can read, and any engineer can pick up.
Motion & drives
Siemens SINAMICS drives and precision motion commissioned and tuned — the multi-axis, high-accuracy movement that makes a machine run smoothly instead of fighting itself.
Machine safety
Functional safety designed in from the start — guarding, safe stops and safety functions engineered, validated and certified to SIL 3 / PL d, with the documentation that proves it.
Networks & devices
A reliable plant network tying the line together — and the awkward older devices nobody else wants to touch, brought in and made dependable instead of left as a blind spot.
Robot integration
Robots and cobots tied into the line so the whole cell behaves as one machine — coordinated with the control system, the safety system and the operators.
Site commissioning
Guided start-ups, drive tuning, fault-finding and acceptance testing — on site until production actually runs, with the records to hand over at the end.
Case studies
Recent work, names withheld
Client details available on request. Full write-ups on the case-studies page.
Robotic welding cell · South Australia
A complete welding cell delivered as one job: a cobot carrying the torch, a positioner rotating the workpiece and a clamping system centring it — all working together as a single machine on one modern fail-safe Siemens control system.
The cell pulls together the things that usually need three different contractors: high-accuracy coordinated motion, machine safety built in through to the drives, the robot, the heating system and the operator screens — all designed, wired and commissioned by one integrator instead of stitched together across a job site.
Outcome: logic, motion, safety, HMI and commissioning delivered by one party — no interface gaps, one phone number when something needs changing.
- Scope
- A complete welding cell — robot, positioner, clamping, safety and screens
- Platform
- Built on a single modern fail-safe Siemens control system
- Motion
- High-accuracy coordinated movement with controlled, gentle contact
- Safety
- Functional safety engineered through to the drives, certified SIL 3 / PL d
- Integration
- Robot, heating and sensing all brought onto one connected system
- Operators
- Driven from clear WinCC Unified screens built to match the logic
Palletising fleet, 13 robot cells · pasta production, South Australia
- Scale
- 13 robot palletising cells across the packing lines
- Platform
- Consolidated onto a modern fail-safe Siemens control system
- Safety
- Per-cell safety zones — one cell can be entered while its neighbours keep running
- Sensing
- Smart sensors reporting their own health, not just a reading
- Robots
- New and existing robots brought onto one connected system
- Operators
- Live throughput and shift reporting on one WinCC Unified screen
End-of-line palletising for a high-volume pasta plant: thirteen robot cells taking cartons off the packing lines, each cell with its own safety zone — so one cell can be entered for service while its neighbours keep running.
A modern fail-safe Siemens control system coordinates the whole fleet, smart sensors flag problems before they become stoppages, and one WinCC Unified screen reports live throughput and shift figures for every line at a glance.
Outcome: commissioned cell by cell around live production — the plant never stopped packing while the fleet went in.
Read the full case study →How we work
What you get with the invoice
Fixed-scope quotes
A clear statement of what is included, priced as a job — not an open-ended day rate.
Sources handed over
All SCL sources, HMI projects and configuration are yours, documented and version-controlled.
Documentation included
Functional descriptions, IO lists and commissioning records — written as we go, not reconstructed after.
Support that answers
Remote and on-site support from the engineer who wrote the code, not a ticket queue.
Have a machine that needs a brain?
Greenfield cell, retrofit, or a half-finished project someone else walked away from — describe it and we'll quote it straight.