ELECTRONIX AUTOMATION · SPECIAL PURPOSE MACHINES

Special purpose machines, designed, built and programmed in Coimbatore

When a job is too specific for a catalogue machine — testing every part for leaks, pressing and checking an assembly, loading a fixture with a cobot — we design the machine around your part: the mechanics, the pneumatics, the electrical panel, the PLC program and the operator screen. One team from the first sketch to the trial run on your floor.

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9+ years

of our founder's hands-on work in industrial automation

20+ CNCs

retrofits led by our founder — Fanuc, Siemens 828D, Fagor 8055i

Multi-brand

Siemens · Omron · Delta · Mitsubishi · Allen Bradley · CODESYS

Direct

you talk to the engineer who designs your machine

From our projects, running

Short clips from the shop floor. Tap any of them to play with sound.

Cobot pick-and-place cellA collaborative robot with a pneumatic gripper lifting a moulded part off a locating fixture and placing it on the next station.

Tilting PCB work-holding stationA tilting work-holding fixture for printed circuit boards on an ESD workbench: the operator loads the board, swings the fixture to a working angle and back.

SMT stencil cleaning stationA stencil cleaning station on an aluminium-profile frame: the SMT stencil is clamped, tilted and cleaned at a fixed position.

CNC RETROFIT

Automatic milling head change on a retrofitted Anayak

A large Anayak milling machine, retrofitted onto a modern CNC control, swapping its milling head on its own — a sequence that lives in the machine's PLC. Old iron, new brain.

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What we build, fix and connect

Each one has its own page with how we do it, what you get and the questions buyers ask — or see every service on one page.

Leak testing machinesSingle and multi-station air leak testers — pressure decay with a per-station verdict, water-dip confirmation, or a commercial leak test instrument wired into the machine.▸ 1 to 6 test stations▸ Pressure decay, dip or instrument▸ Per-part OK / NG and countsRead more →Test rigs & end-of-line testersPressure, flow and functional test benches for valves, regulators and assemblies — for new product validation or a 100% check at the end of the line.▸ Analog command sweeps▸ Linearity, hysteresis, repeatability▸ Test reports per partRead more →Assembly fixtures & automation cellsPneumatic clamping fixtures, pick-and-place stackers, cobot load/unload cells and work stations built on aluminium profile, with sensors that stop a wrong part.▸ Servo and pneumatic axes▸ Cobot integration▸ Poka-yoke sensingRead more →PLC programming & HMI designSend your machine's sequence and get the PLC program free in 3 days for CODESYS, Delta, Siemens or Omron. New programs, fixes, migrations and operator screens too.▸ Free program from your sequence▸ EPLAN or AutoCAD schematic▸ Simulated before siteRead more →CNC retrofit & modernisationNew Fanuc, Siemens 828D or Fagor 8055i controls and servo drives on sound old iron — VMCs, HMCs, turning centres and large milling machines.▸ Fanuc · Siemens 828D · Fagor 8055i▸ Controller and servo selection▸ Commissioning and trainingRead more →Electrical panel designControl panel drawings that an electrician can wire from and a maintenance team can fault-find from: single-line diagrams, control schematics, wiring and cable schedules.▸ EPLAN Electric P8▸ AutoCAD Electrical▸ IEC / IS practiceRead more →Free PLC supportMachine stopped on a PLC fault, or a program nobody understands? Send the alarm, photos or the backup. A first diagnosis and advice, free.▸ Fault diagnosis▸ Program review▸ PLC selection adviceRead more →Program correction for running machinesMachines that hang mid-cycle, reject good parts or lost their program. We back up, find the cause, fix it in small steps and document what changed.▸ Troubleshooting▸ New sensors and interlocks▸ Lost program recoveryRead more →IoT, OEE & traceabilityLive machine status, counts and OEE per shift, and a record of every part — serial, results, station and time — on your own network.▸ Modbus · OPC UA · MQTT▸ Barcode and Data Matrix▸ Shift and OEE reportsRead more →Machine documentationAs-built electrical drawings, I/O and alarm lists, PLC program notes and operating manuals for machines that came without them.▸ As-built drawings▸ I/O and alarm lists▸ Manuals and SOPsRead more →Machine vision inspectionCamera checks for presence, orientation, codes, dimensions and surface defects, wired to the PLC so a bad part is rejected, not just reported.▸ Lighting and camera selection▸ PLC reject handling▸ Trials on your partsRead more →DNC software for CNC machinesElectronIx DNC sends, receives and drip-feeds programs to Fanuc CNCs over Ethernet or RS-232 from one PC — no more USB pen drives.▸ Fanuc, Ethernet and RS-232▸ Drip-feed for big programs▸ Free full trialRead more →

What every machine ships with

The source, not just the machine. PLC and HMI projects and the electrical drawings are yours to keep and change.
Documents a maintenance team can use. I/O list, alarm list with the likely cause of each alarm, parameter sheet with defaults and limits, HMI page guide and commissioning steps — as PDF.
A program tested before the machine is wired. The PLC logic runs against a simulated machine at our desk first, so sequence mistakes are found there and not on your floor.
No silent hangs. Every movement has a timeout and a named alarm, and the message line always tells the operator what to do next.
A defined safe stop. Emergency stop and STOP take the machine through a known sequence — exhaust, lift, release, unclamp — not just “everything off”.
Ready for data. Counts, results and cycle times sit in tags that a SCADA, OEE or traceability system can read without reprogramming.

READYAUTOCycle complete – NOT OK part(s)! Segregate themRESETSTOPMUTE

STEP 12 CompleteLAST CYCLE 38.6 sLEAK LIMIT 0.020 barTEST TIME 8.0 s

	ST 1	ST 2	ST 3	ST 4	ST 5	ST 6
Pressure, bar	2.004	1.998	2.001	1.947	2.006	—
Leak value, bar	0.002	0.001	0.003	0.041	0.002	—
Result	OK	OK	OK	NOT OK	OK	DISABLED
Reason	—	—	—	LEAK	—	—
OK / NOT OK	1412 / 3	1409 / 6	1415 / 0	1398 / 17	1411 / 4	0 / 0

AUTOMANUALSETTINGSMAINTENANCECALIBRATIONI/OALARMSDIAGNOSTICS

Illustration of the operator page we specify for a six-station leak tester, with example values. Every result carries a reason, and the message line always tells the operator what to do next.

How a machine gets built

The same six steps whether it is a two-cylinder fixture or a multi-station test machine.

STEP 01
Part and process study
You send the part, a drawing or a phone video of how the job is done today, and the output you need. We ask until we know what makes a part good or bad.
STEP 02
Free concept and budget
A layout sketch, the sequence of operation, a cycle-time estimate and a budget range. Free, no obligation. If a machine will not pay for itself, we say so.
STEP 03
Design and review
Mechanical design in SolidWorks, electrical drawings in EPLAN or AutoCAD Electrical, the pneumatic circuit — reviewed with you before anything is cut or bought.
STEP 04
Build and program
Fabrication, panel wiring and assembly, with the PLC and HMI program written in parallel and run against a simulated machine.
STEP 05
Trial with your parts
The machine runs your parts in Coimbatore before it is dispatched. Come and watch the trial, or we send you the video.
STEP 06
Install, train, hand over
Installation and commissioning at your plant, training for operators and maintenance, and the full set of documents and source files.

For plants that make

Pneumatic and hydraulic componentsValves, regulators and fittingsAutomotive componentsElectronics and PCB assemblyBearingsCNC machine shopsPlastic and moulded parts

Machines and software from one company

ElectronIx also writes industrial software. ElectronIx DNC moves part programs between a PC and Fanuc CNCs, and runs on 23 machines at a precision engineering company in Coimbatore. The same habits go into our machines: logic that is tested before it ships, and a record of what the machine did.

Who designs your machine

ElectronIx is run by Dinesh Kumar G, an electrical and electronics engineer with more than nine years in industrial automation — all of it on the shop floor rather than behind a sales desk.

PLC programmer at Vego Machines: a 4-axis servo pick-and-place stacker on Delta PLC and HMI.
Project engineer at Qtech CNC Service: retrofits of more than 20 VMCs, HMCs and turning centres onto Fanuc, Siemens 828D and Fagor 8055i controls.
Automation engineer at WelVision Innovations: automated visual inspection for bearing manufacturers, integrated with Siemens S7 and Allen Bradley PLCs.
Assembly automation, leak testing, test rigs and plant-wide IIoT for a pneumatic components manufacturer in Coimbatore.
Author of the ElectronIx software, including ElectronIx DNC.

When you send an enquiry, he is the one who reads it, prepares the concept and, if the machine is built, commissions it.

Questions buyers ask

What is a special purpose machine (SPM)?

A machine designed for one job on one kind of part — leak testing a valve body, pressing and checking an assembly, loading a fixture — rather than a general-purpose machine you buy from a catalogue. Because it does one thing, it can do it faster and more consistently than a person with a general tool, and it can check its own work on every part.

How much does a special purpose machine cost?

It depends on the number of stations, how much motion there is, and what has to be measured — a single-station pneumatic fixture and a six-station leak tester with data logging are very different machines. You get a budget range with the free concept, and a fixed quotation once the scope is agreed. We do not publish a price list because two SPMs are rarely the same machine.

How long does it take to build an SPM?

The schedule is part of the quotation, with milestones for design approval, build, trial at our end and installation at yours. Work on an existing machine's PLC program can start as soon as we have a backup of the program and access to the machine, on site or remotely.

Which PLC and HMI brands do you work with?

Your plant standard, if you have one, so your maintenance team is not left with something unfamiliar. We program Siemens S7-1200 and S7-1500 (TIA Portal), Omron (Sysmac Studio and CX-One), Delta, Mitsubishi, Allen Bradley and CODESYS-based controllers, with Weintek, Delta and Siemens WinCC operator screens.

Do we get the PLC program and the electrical drawings?

Yes. The PLC and HMI projects as source, not just a compiled file, the electrical drawings, and the document set: I/O list, alarm list with causes, parameter sheet and commissioning steps. A machine your own team cannot fault-find is a machine you will be calling us about for every small problem.

Can you modify a machine that someone else built?

Yes — adding a station or a sensor, changing the sequence, adding a test or a data log, rewriting HMI screens, or replacing an obsolete PLC with a current one. Start by sending a backup of the existing program and photos of the panel; we will tell you what is realistic before quoting.

Do you only work in Coimbatore?

Machines are designed, built and trialled in Coimbatore and then installed and commissioned at your plant. PLC and HMI work on an existing machine can often be done remotely, with a site visit for commissioning.

Start with the part

Tell us what the machine has to do and how many parts it has to do it to. A drawing, a photo of the part and a phone video of the job as it is done today are worth more than a long specification.

Prefer to talk? Call or WhatsApp — the buttons are at the top and bottom of every page. For a structured brief, the SPM requirement checklist lists what a machine builder needs to know.

Have a job that a machine should be doing?

Send the part and the target output. You get a concept, a sequence and a budget range back — free, and with no obligation to build it with us.

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