PLCs were built for 1975.
Your plant runs in 2026.
Hyleon is an independent engineering studio. We design and build custom control systems on standard Raspberry Pi and microcontrollers — so you skip the industrial hardware premium and get a system built for your line, not a box to configure yourself.
A control system should learn, see, and update itself overnight — not wait for a vendor's next firmware cycle.
We engineer that on standard Raspberry Pi and microcontrollers — usually for a fraction of the hardware cost, and always open and yours to own.
Two ways to look at the same line
What we build — and what we're building toward
Integration and control we engineer today; on-device AI is on our roadmap. We'll always tell you which is which.
Vision QA on the line
On-device defect detection is on our roadmap — catching flaws a discrete sensor never could, with no cloud round-trip.
Predictive maintenance
Forecasting bearing and motor failure from raw vibration and current signatures — a capability we're actively building.
Natural-language ops
LLM-assisted operator interfaces — ask the line a question, get an answer. An emerging capability we're developing.
Talks to everything
Modbus, OPC-UA, MQTT, legacy serial — bridging brownfield gear to modern systems is core to what we engineer.
Self-updating, signed
Systems designed to ship a new model or logic overnight via signed OTA, with safe rollback.
Sits beside your PLC
Add intelligence without ripping out proven control. Augment, don't replace.
Most clients are pulling one of these levers
“We need to cut cost.”
Same control outcome, a fraction of the capital. Pi nodes replace over-specified PLC racks for monitoring, data acquisition and non-safety control.
“We just want a better system.”
Not cheaper, not sci-fi — modern. Open, observable and documented, with the flexibility to change a line tomorrow without a vendor PO or a specialist on retainer.
“We need what a PLC can’t do.”
On-device vision, ML and language a PLC doesn't offer natively. We architect the system so these can be added as the capability matures — a roadmap, not a promise we've already shipped.
See the cost gap on your own line
Set your control-point count and whether you want AI on the line. It's a rough hardware-only estimate — before our engineering fee — and we pressure-test the real figures with you on a call.
- No per-seat programming licenses
- No proprietary I/O markup
- Designed so changes ship as software, not a site visit
Hardware only — engineering quoted separately. Indicative model; we verify on a call.
A $180k DCS expansion, reimagined as three Pi nodes and a vision cell — the kind of build we're set up to deliver.
We're a new studio, so we won't hand you a fabricated testimonial. This is an illustrative scenario — not a customer engagement. Be one of the first real ones, and we'll publish the numbers together.