Our story
Mobile Automation began in 1987 as Mobile Electrics — an industrial electrical contractor with a simple vision: be the one call a factory needs to make. As clients asked us to solve bigger problems, we grew into them. In 2006, with automation, engineering and systems integration added to the toolbox, Mobile Automation was born.
Today our workforce spans engineers, Special Class electricians, A-Grade electricians, mechanical fitters and apprentices — operating from a purpose-built headquarters with fully equipped control-cabinet and mechanical workshops, and a fleet of 40+ stocked service vehicles covering metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria. We deliver over 1000 jobs a year, from two-hour breakdown calls to multi-month automation programs.
How we work
We turn up when we said we would. We quote honestly, and we tell you early when something has changed rather than at invoice time. We document what we build, because the person maintaining it in ten years probably won't be the person who installed it. And we answer the phone when something breaks.
No job is too big or too small — a two-hour breakdown call gets the same people and the same care as a twelve-month automation program. Some of our longest relationships started with a callout.
Why clients stay
- Single point of accountability — electrical, engineering, robotics and mechanical delivered by one contractor on one job system. Interface risk between trades sits with us, not with your project manager.
- Installations built to be maintained — logical cabinet layouts, traceable cable runs and as-built documentation that matches what was installed. The cost of an installation is realised over its service life, not at handover.
- Commercial transparency — itemised pricing, variations raised before they are incurred, and a clear position when the scope you have asked for is not the scope you need.
- Production-led scheduling — works planned to your shutdown windows, cells proven off-site before delivery, and staging designed around output rather than our convenience.
- Safety embedded in delivery — documented safe work practices applied consistently on client sites and in our own workshop, and the same standard expected of anyone we bring with us.
Credentials and standards
Registered Electrical Contractor (REC 8904), working to Australian Standards including AS/NZS 3000 and AS/NZS 4024, with ESV and WorkSafe processes handled properly. Brand experience across Universal Robots, ABB, Siemens, Allen-Bradley, Schneider and Eaton.
