NXS Tech NXS TECH

Design

Automation design,
done before the steel is cut.

Control system design, PLC programming, EPLAN schematics and scope documents for injection moulding, robotics, and material handling. Design is the whole scope. Fabrication, panel build and site work go to partners who do it for a living. Built on 25+ years on the plant floor.

Capabilities

Full-scope electrical and controls design: PLC programming, EPLAN schematics, panel design and scope documentation. Comfortable across injection moulding, robotics, and material handling lines, with deep familiarity in injection moulding machine integration and machine controller work. We design it and we document it. We don't fabricate, build panels or put people on site, and we say so up front.

PLC programming EPLAN schematics Injection moulding integration Robotics Material handling Electrical design Concept design Commissioning docs Safety reviews Scope documents Design reviews AI assisted design and workflows

Credentials & licensing

Justin Kerkman is our principal engineer: trained at the University of Adelaide (1992-1996), trade-qualified as an electrical tradesperson through a four-year apprenticeship (1998-2002), and holding unrestricted South Australian electrical worker's registration continuously since 1998. Contracting is delivered under our own South Australian licence for electrical, gas fitting and plumbing work, held since 2010.

University of Adelaide, engineering, 1992–1996 Trade-qualified electrician, 1998–2002 Electrical Worker's Registration PGE 155628, since 1998 Electrical, gas & plumbing contractor PGE 230505, since 2010

Nexus Vance is head of our AI engineering, and an AI engineer in the most literal sense: an AI, built into the practice and run by NxsTech. Nexus drafts scope and concept documents, automates the repetitive end of controls engineering, and runs the data and analysis infrastructure behind our projects, all under Justin's direction. Every output is reviewed and signed off by a human engineer before it reaches a client.

Electrical design and PLC work by Justin Kerkman. Built and installed by the companies he designed it for.

Twin-head Branson ultrasonic welding cell

Twin-head Branson ultrasonic welding cell

FANUC robot cell at a pad printing station

FANUC robot cell, pad printing station

FANUC LR Mate 200iD robot with custom end-of-arm tooling

FANUC LR Mate 200iD with custom EOAT

FANUC robot automatic tool-change dock

FANUC robot, automatic tool-change dock

FANUC robot tray server automation

FANUC robot, tray server automation

Ultrasonic welding tooling and fixture

Ultrasonic welding tooling

Automated conveyor and product transfer detail

Conveyor and product transfer

Safety PLC wiring inside a control panel

Safety PLC wiring, control panel

Safety stack light with status legend

Safety stack light and status legend

Silo being lifted into position by crane

Silo installation, crane lift

Ultrasonic welding heads over bottles on a filling line

Ultrasonic bottling line

Field control cabinet install, Penfolds Barossa Valley

Field cabinet install, Penfolds Barossa Valley

Weld cell light curtain and emergency stop station

Weld cell light curtain and E-stop

Automated enclosure safety signage

Automated enclosure safety signage

Consonic-built control panel with Allen-Bradley PanelView HMI

Consonic panel, Allen-Bradley PanelView HMI

Allen-Bradley control cabinet build

Allen-Bradley control cabinet build

Bank of Branson 2000P ultrasonic welders

Branson 2000P ultrasonic welder bank

Mould tooling and sensor wiring detail

Mould tooling and sensor wiring

Aerial view of a tank farm at Penfolds Barossa Valley

Tank farm, Penfolds Barossa Valley

Tank mixer motor install, Penfolds Barossa Valley

Tank mixer install, Penfolds Barossa Valley

Field cabling and panel install on site

Field cabling and panel install

Tank control HMI main screen

Tank control HMI, main screen

Tank control HMI detail screen

Tank control HMI, tank detail

Tank control cabinet with emergency stop

Tank control cabinet

Plastic processing machine with control panel

Plastic processing machine, control panel

Material handling HMI screen

Material handling HMI

Cleanroom filling line setup

Cleanroom filling line setup

Automated capping cell with robot

Automated capping cell

Robot cell, GM Holden project

Robot cell, GM Holden project

Ultrasonic weld nest, GM Holden project

Ultrasonic weld nest, GM Holden project

Piovan material loader installation

Piovan material loader

Control cabinet with Siemens Sirius contactors

Control cabinet, Siemens contactors

CAD concept design of a bumper facia checking fixture

Bumper facia checking fixture, concept design

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