About.

Why we are here, what services we can supply, where we have had experience.

Newly Established in 2024

After servicing the Wide Bay Water for the 8 years, and previously 30+ years in private industry in various electrical fields (mainly control systems) and moving to Bundaberg early 2023 for personal and family reasons, we saw that, in the Wide Bay region, there was little or no locally based Control Systems Engineers. We are taking this opportunity to fill what we see as a need in this region. 

Our Goal

Our goal is to fill the gap, as an experienced Control Systems and Electrical Engineering business, to service the requirements of local industry that fits in between Electrical Contractors and Brisbane based Systems Integrators.

The added knowledge above electrical contractors and the convenience of being a local control systems engineering business, is aimed at providing timely and economical services.

As with all major centres, Bundaberg has some highly experienced Industrial Electrical Contractors that we will be able to collaborate with.
​We are independent, but also available to assist local contractors and city-based Integrators where required; but we are also here with the ability and experience to carry out design, projects and complex maintenance tasks on our own. We can also assist clients on very large projects in advisory or supervising roles - for specification development, installation oversight, documentation, quality and site testing.​

Our Methods

Planning, Planning and Planning.
After years of observing "entrepreneurial" engineers and contractors rushing in, pulling a $ figure out the air, then scratching their heads not knowing how they're going to do the project, without thinking the project through, then walking away. They often fail and after a year of frustration, have their systems ripped out, or they have to return multiple times to fix it, losing their own, and the client's valuable production time.
We pre-plan and budget extensively, which may appear slow at first, but when installed it generally goes first time and we never have to return.

High level specs
The specifications and drawings are the basis of any technical contract. This is where the client drives what is required for the project so that both the supplier and client are on the same page. The specification has to be tight to avoid an otherwise loose specification, where the client could end up with equipment that does not fulfil its role. 

Testing and Operational Reliability.
Civil and structural engineers may do their preliminary design only to 70%, because their designs are generally over-designed or they generate a new project to overcome what was overlooked. Once complete, they leave. In Control Systems, and the programming of controllers, one bug can stop or slow the whole plant. If a project finishes with some minor control shortcomings, then it ends up with what becomes a "thorn in the side" for the plant operators, where a small piece of the control system was overlooked and left to the operators to fill in the gaps. Which is something we strive to avoid. Hence control systems engineers generally design and specify the preliminary design to well over 90% of the final as-constructed system. Factory and Site Acceptance Testing to prove the system is very rigorous.

About...

David Daymond
Owner, Senior Engineer
​Registered RPEQ Electrical Engineer

Summary and brief sample of experience below...

PROCESS AND CONTROL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

• Electrical Engineer on the Design and Commissioning team for Capalaba WTP Scada and Controls Upgrade
• Commissioning Royal Brisbane Hospital West block MV/LV power controls. Citect/Siemens S7 redundant fibre optic SCADA network for automatic control of 11KV ring main, sub-stations and switchboards.
• Project, service and support for various Water/Wastewater utilities in Queensland.
• Radio telemetry/S7 control system upgrade of a major Sugar Mill cane train system and the design of single channel, 4 station protocol radio control system for train synchronization of multiple Loco/Brake Vans on one channel. Also included programming of an anti-skid system for the brake van.
• Design and programming of automated strawberry wrapping machines, fruit and package labellers, and packing shed conveyor systems.
• Maintenance engineering of automated process control equipment for food/beverage, heavy and light industry.
• Design, programming and automation of multi-axis industrial machines for roll-forming, back-gauging, pick-and-place and positioning systems.
• Developed, programmed and built the controls for a major plastic pipe producer. 16 simultaneous extruders with loaders, 3 vacuum transport pumps, 5 selection product silos with automatic priority Queuing/de-Queuing of each line, and integration into their SCADA.
• Programming and design of the controls for prototypes of automated high-speed macadamia nut cracking/kernel separation machines.
• Developed and programmed the controls of Australia's first line integrated automated plywood grading machine.
• Integration, programming and testing of an oil blending tank line into a major oil supplier plant's control system. 

 
PROJECT ENGINEERING

• Project Controls Engineer in the design, install and commissioning team of a large utility SCADA, controls and telemetry network Upgrade Project (~1,000 sites) $40M
• Construction works and Installation of new roasting stack and after-burners for 2.5T/hr roasters.
• Design, Management and Construction of a new lab embedded in a 24/7 heavy factory process area, while also relocating services (high pressure steam, chilled water, compressed air etc…).
• Factory project to design and construct an Automated Product Rework system with CIP.
• Prototype development of an air-liftable, standalone compact diesel generator/fuel tank package for remote Telstra ISDN systems for temporary emergency power requirements during grid loss events at inaccessible sites.

 
BUILDING ENGINEERING SERVICES

• Upgrades, design and supervision of electrical services in various Brisbane high rise and exchanges.
• Lead for UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supplies) and Diesel Generator Systems in major high rise and computer installations. Formerly contracted as Eaton Electric’s service and commissioning engineer for S.E. Queensland. Also, Telstra Tele-power Senior Engineer for major corporate buildings and exchanges.
• Former Tesltra Qld lead-house for the Contaminated Land Act’s interpretation and contractual rollout in Property Services for Telstra.
• Major projects involving structural changes, process and building services, plant relocation and refit for a Beverages manufacturing facility.

 
POWER ENGINEERING (TELECOMMUNICATIONS)

• Senior Systems Engineer and Qld section head for powering the Telstra telecommunications network, implementing Emergency Plant, Large UPS, Solar, Large DC Rectifier and Battery systems.
• Senior Engineer and National Product Manager in Tele-power Design Standards for equipment. The role involved programming, coordinating, testing and tendering multi-million dollar equipment contracts for national telecommunications infrastructure projects specialising in UPS and large rectifier power electronics, solar system hardware and controllers, diesel emergency plant, wind turbines and systems designs.

 
PROFESSIONAL STANDING:          
Senior Electrical and Control Systems Engineer, R.P.E.Q. Over 40 years in High level process and control automation, building engineering services, power electronics design and systems, alternative energy, telecommunications power engineering, project engineering, tendering\specification and contracts.
 
SOFTWARE/HARDWARE EXPERIENCE
PLC - Extensive experience in Siemens, Simatic-S7 200,300 series ; Allen Bradley RS Logix 500,5000,
Omron CJ2M, NX series, CX-Programmer; Texas Instruments TI505, Soft Shop, Tisoft ; Hitachi ; Toshiba Melsec.
RTU - Schneider SCADAPack DNP3 - Isagraf, Kingfisher - Toolbox32
HMI - Various HMI for Allen Bradley, Siemens, Schneider, Omron, Red Lion.
SCADA - ClearSCADA, WinCC & Citect.
Telemetry - Trio digital radios and base stations, Tait Digital & Analogue radios, 4RF digital radios.
CAD - Highly proficient in AutoCAD 2D and 3D modelling.
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