PLCs were built for 1975.
Your plant runs in 2026.
Hyleon replaces — or augments — PLC, DCS, PAC and RTU with smart, AI-native nodes, built on hardware you can actually buy, secure, and update.
A control system should learn, see, and update itself overnight — not wait for a vendor's next firmware cycle.
We build that on Raspberry Pi and microcontrollers. Often cheaper. Sometimes impossible any other way.
Two ways to look at the same line
What it does that a PLC simply can't
For the clients who don't care about price — they care that the thing is finally possible.
Vision QA on the line
Catch defects a discrete sensor never could — on-device, no cloud round-trip.
Predictive maintenance
Forecast bearing and motor failure from raw vibration and current signatures.
Natural-language ops
Ask the line a question; get an answer. LLM-assisted operator interfaces.
Talks to everything
Modbus, OPC-UA, MQTT, legacy serial — bridge brownfield gear to the cloud.
Self-updating, signed
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 the impossible.”
On-device vision, ML and language no PLC offers at any price. When the requirement isn't cheaper — it's a capability that didn't exist on your line before.
See the cost gap on your own line
Set your control-point count and whether you need vision or ML. It's a rough model — we pressure-test the real figures with you on a call.
- No per-seat programming licenses
- No proprietary I/O markup
- Changes ship as a software deploy, not a site visit
“We replaced a $180k DCS expansion with three Pi nodes and a vision cell. Six-week payback. The model updates itself now.”