When the plant needs to be controlled, monitored or fixed, we're the automation people.
Newcastle engineers for the part of a machine, a pump station or a production line that makes it run itself. You don't need to know what a PLC is. You need it to work.
Who calls us
Plant and site managers
Something keeps stopping, the screen that runs it is dead, or the one person who understood the system has left. We find the fault, fix it, and leave you with a note of what changed and a backup of the program.
Equipment suppliers
Installers, machine builders and electro-mechanical firms. You deliver the job and we do the automation: design, panel, program and commissioning, under your name if you prefer.
Project managers and owners
A new line, an imported machine, a pump station, equipment that has to work together. We write the scope in plain words, price it, deliver it, and hand over drawings and a backup you keep.
You don't need to speak the language
Tell us what the machine or the site is meant to do and what it's doing instead. We turn that into the controls: the controller, the screen, the sensors, the drives and the wiring that make it run without someone standing there.
Where we fit into your project
Most of our clients aren't electrical people. They're plant managers, installers and project managers who need the automation part handled by someone who does it every week. This is the part we take.
- Scope. What it has to do, in plain words, with a price and exclusions you can read.
- Electrical design. Drawings your panel builder and electrician work from.
- Program and screens. The controller and the operator screen, tested on the bench before site.
- Commissioning. On site with your crew until it runs the way the scope says.
- Support. Documentation you keep, a backup, and a number to ring when it stops.
Recent jobs
- Summerhill, City of NewcastleA leachate pond that only sent a text now shows on the council's control screens, with alarms and a record for the EPA. No downtime. Read more
- Dredge, Port of NewcastleThe air-conditioning controls were replaced before the vessel sailed. Three days on board, at sea on the fourth with cold air.
- Chemical plant, TomagoA new main control panel for the whole plant, designed so the old board can be retired one piece at a time without stopping production.
- Pharma plant, RutherfordAfter a service, an oven kept overshooting to its cut-off and tripping. Found and sorted on site, in the client's own program.
- Lift pump station, GPMThe telemetry controller replaced and the gate intercoms moved to mobile, commissioned in a day. Read more
- Heat treatment, Quarry MiningFurnace temperatures now show in the plant's app, and a gas sensor that kept setting off the light tower was sorted.
What clients say
ControlX has provided outstanding support for our automation needs at Eco Surfaces Australia. Their expertise and system integration have allowed us to streamline our production process, improving both efficiency and output. With their solutions, we are now confidently producing up to 7 slabs per day.
I have utilised ControlX Engineering on numerous occasions at Ulan Underground Coal Mine. I have contacted ControlX on many occasions for breakdown assistance and through utilising their experience we have limited downtime to a minimum on our conveyor system.
A Newcastle firm, growing.
Founded in 2021. A team of engineers covering site work, electrical design and software. Around forty organisations since then, most of them more than once: councils, a port, water and property operators, chemical, food and pharmaceutical plants, and the installers and equipment firms that build for them.
Where it fits, we build on our own controller and cloud platform, JasperX. No licence per seat, remote access built in, and you keep the program.
Something stopped? Ring now. Something coming up? Send it through.
Call 0401 434 787 and you'll be talking to an engineer. Or send the details and a photo of the panel, and we'll ring you back.