Control equipment on an industrial site

Who We Are

About Us

Decades of seeing it done well, and done badly.

Catapult Engineering was founded on a simple conviction: that systems integration for heavy industry can be done considerably better than our founders had usually seen it done.

45+ Years

of industrial automation experience between the founders

Australia & Overseas

many companies, many countries, over decades

Four Sectors

power, oil and gas, mining, water

Boutique By Choice

senior engineers on every job, from Brisbane

Why We Started

Catapult Engineering was started because its founders wanted to do systems integration better.

Between them they had worked for many companies, in many countries, over decades. They had seen the right ways — and the wrong ways — to engineer and deliver industrial automation projects for heavy industry. They had watched sound projects held back by process that served the integrator rather than the asset, by design decisions taken for commercial convenience rather than operational sense, and by teams who were gone the moment handover was signed.

Catapult exists to break free of the limitations that impede success in the systems integration space, and to be relentless about the engineering processes that actually produce the best outcome for the client. That is the whole idea, and everything below follows from it.

How We Work

The four things we hold to.

Pragmatic, Not Dogmatic

We work closely with asset owners and operators to improve performance and reliability and to reduce operational risk. The right answer is the one that suits the plant and the people running it.

Genuinely Vendor Agnostic

We do not resell anybody’s hardware, so we have nothing to push. We specify what the asset needs, and we are equally happy working on the platform you already run.

Senior Engineers, On The Job

We are boutique on purpose. The people who scope your project are the people who deliver it, and they are still reachable after handover.

Prove It Before Site

Control programs are fully simulated and tested before anyone travels to site, so commissioning is short and predictable. We do not leave that to chance.

Work With Us

If that sounds like the way you would rather have a control system project run, we should talk.