Custom
Electronics for the Factory Floor— Built to
Run.
Full-stack engineering partner for industrial automation hardware — from machine vision and condition monitoring sensors to IIoT gateways, motor control firmware, and SCADA integration. Protocol-native, deterministic, and built to survive the factory floor.
The Industrial Hardware Problem
The Bottleneck Between Factory Floor Data and Business Value
Manufacturing operations are under relentless pressure to increase OEE, reduce unplanned downtime, and modernize legacy equipment — but the hardware layer between the factory floor and the data platform is consistently the bottleneck. Off-the-shelf industrial hardware doesn't fit the specific machine, the specific protocol, or the specific production environment. Generic PLCs can't read the torque signature of your proprietary servo drive. COTS machine vision systems can't be trained on your defect library. Standard IIoT gateways speak MQTT but not the Modbus RTU dialect your 2003-era CNC controller actually sends.
Most custom electronics firms don't understand the industrial constraint set. Real-time determinism is not a nice-to-have when a 200ms control loop jitter triggers a machine fault and stops a production line. Protocol fluency is not negotiable when your SCADA system expects EtherNet/IP implicit messaging at 10ms scan intervals. Harsh environment survivability is not optional when your device lives 300mm from a CNC spindle or inside an injection moulding cell at 85°C ambient.
Ankh is the engineering partner that understands both sides — the electronics engineering discipline and the manufacturing operations reality. We build hardware that runs deterministically, survives the factory floor, speaks the protocols your SCADA expects, and can be updated and maintained without stopping production. The Industry 4.0 and IIoT wave — digital twins, predictive maintenance, connected production lines, edge AI quality inspection — creates massive demand for exactly this kind of purpose-built industrial hardware. Industrial automation vendors, OEM machine builders, and systems integrators all need a custom hardware engineering partner. We serve all three.
What We Build for Manufacturing
Custom industrial electronics across the full automation stack — from machine-side sensors and control boards to factory-wide IIoT networks and edge AI inspection systems.
Machine Vision & Quality Inspection Systems
Industrial IoT & Condition Monitoring
PLC & Embedded Control Boards
Motor Drive & Servo Electronics
Force, Torque & Pressure Sensing
Energy Monitoring & Power Management
WIP Tracking & Traceability Hardware
Wearables & Collaborative Safety Electronics
Industrial Hardware Engineering
Electronics Design →EMC-aware PCB design for CE and FCC compliance. IP54 through IP69K enclosure design. Operating range -40°C to 85°C. Vibration and shock resistance to IEC 60068. Connector selection for factory duty cycles — M8, M12, DIN 41612. UL 508A industrial control panel design awareness. ATEX/IECEx awareness for hazardous area deployments in chemical, mining, and oil and gas environments.
Real-Time Firmware & Control
Embedded Firmware →Deterministic control firmware on FreeRTOS and Zephyr with hard real-time scheduling. FOC (field oriented control) for PMSM and BLDC motors. PID and adaptive control algorithm implementation with auto-calibration. Watchdog and fault recovery architecture for unattended production line operation. OTA firmware update systems for factory floor device fleets — update during scheduled maintenance windows without physical access.
Machine Vision & Edge AI
Computer Vision →Custom machine vision camera hardware with FPGA-accelerated image processing. Embedded defect detection and dimensional measurement running on-device at production line cycle rates. Edge AI model quantization and deployment for sub-millisecond inference without cloud round-trip. Computer vision pipeline development: image capture, preprocessing, feature extraction, classification, and MES traceability integration.
Industrial Protocol Integration
IoT Architecture →Native firmware implementation of Modbus RTU and TCP, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET, OPC-UA, CANopen, and DeviceNet on custom silicon — not through off-the-shelf communication modules. SCADA and MES integration middleware for Ignition, Wonderware, and Siemens WinCC. Protocol translation gateways connecting legacy serial equipment to modern Ethernet-based automation networks.
Factory Software & Analytics
AI & Analytics →OEE data collection and analytics platforms. SPC software with real-time control charts, Cpk and Ppk analysis, and out-of-control alerts. Digital twin platforms connecting physical machine sensor data to process models. iOS and Android operator apps for machine status, production dashboards, and maintenance workflows. ERP integration and cloud platform APIs for enterprise reporting.
Certification & Safety Compliance
Certification Support →CE marking support for machinery directive compliance. UL 508A industrial control panel design. FCC Part 15 for wireless industrial devices. IEC 62061 and ISO 13849 awareness for machinery safety electronics. SEMI standards awareness for semiconductor manufacturing equipment. FDA 21 CFR Part 11 awareness for pharmaceutical and food manufacturing traceability. IEC 61131-3 awareness for PLC programming standard compliance.
Platforms & Protocols
Built on Industrial-Grade Platforms
Why Engineering Teams Choose Ankh
Real-Time by Design
Industrial control firmware is not tolerant of missed deadlines. A 200ms jitter on a motion control loop can trigger a machine fault and stop a production line. Our firmware architecture treats deterministic cycle times as a hard constraint from the first line of code — not an optimization bolted on after the fact. Every interrupt priority, every DMA transfer, every task scheduling decision is made with the deadline budget in mind.
Protocol Native
Modbus, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET, OPC-UA, CANopen — implemented at the firmware level on custom silicon, not through off-the-shelf communication modules that constrain your hardware architecture and add an unpredictable latency floor. Native protocol stacks mean you control the timing, the object model, and the integration behavior. Your SCADA system gets the scan rate and the data model it expects.
Built for the Factory Floor
IP65, IP67, IP69K enclosure design. Operating range -40°C to 85°C. Vibration and shock resistance tested to IEC 60068. EMC compliance for CE and FCC. Every hardware decision is made with the production environment in mind — the ambient temperature, the electrical noise floor, the cleaning chemicals, the physical abuse — not the controlled conditions of an engineering lab. Hardware that fails in the field is not a firmware problem.
From One Machine to One Factory
Prototype builds, factory acceptance testing support, DFM review, and production deployment planning — so your hardware scales from a single machine installation to a factory-wide rollout without re-engineering. OTA update infrastructure for fielded device fleets means maintenance windows don't require physical access. Production transfer planning means your contract manufacturer can build units 2 through 10,000 from the same package we hand off.
Inline AI Inspection System for Precision Metal Parts
Custom embedded machine vision platform for a precision metal parts manufacturer. Quantized defect detection model running on-device at 120 parts per minute with 99.4% defect catch rate. Integrated with Ignition SCADA and SAP ERP for real-time quality traceability. Zero cloud dependency — inspection decisions made on the production line device.
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