Design · Analysis · Build
Bring the problem. We'll build the answer.
Most people arrive with a problem rather than a design. A machine that keeps breaking in the same place, a job no off-the-shelf unit does properly, an idea that exists only as a sketch on the back of an invoice.
Inventra turns those into something that can be built, costed and relied on.
Machines, and the systems that run them
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Machine design
Implements and industrial equipment designed from first principles, from a sketch through to a proven machine. Frames, linkages, hydraulics, transport geometry and the engineering behind them, with prototypes and instrumented testing where the answer isn't known yet.
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Automation and control
Sensors through to actuators. PLC and controller logic, hydraulic and electric control, remote monitoring, and operator interfaces built for gloved hands and dusty cabs.
Mechanical engineering, CAD and drafting, structural and fatigue analysis, PLC and software, telematics and project management — all in-house.
Priced in stages, so you know before you commit
Each stage is priced on what the one before it worked out, so you know the cost before you spend it. You can stop at any gate.
Concept
General arrangement, key dimensions, loads and weights. Enough to know whether the idea works, and what the rest will cost.
Detailed design
The full model, with engineering checks against Australian Standards. Materials, sections and connections sized rather than guessed.
Drawings
Drawings a workshop can cut and weld from without ringing you every morning. Weldments, bills of material, tolerances that matter.
Build
Built in our own workshop, or by a fabricator we manage. Or stop at Stage 03, take the drawings and build it yourself.
Field support
First build, first season. What to measure, what to change, and the revisions that follow from real use.
Simple, repairable, built here
- No more machine than the job needs. Capacity and throughput are what a customer pays for. Everything else is cost you carry for the life of the machine.
- Fixable in the shed. Standard sections, standard fasteners, standard bearings. A part that can only be replaced by the importer is a part that stops the job.
- Australian fabrication. Designed around what local workshops can actually cut, bend and weld, with steel sizes they already stock.
- Nothing buried in a black box. Calculations, decisions and costs are documented and traceable. If someone disagrees with a number, they can see exactly where it came from.
If the numbers say it won't work, you've found out for the price of a concept — before anyone cuts steel. The case for Stage 01
An engineer who came up through the workshop
Hunter Lloyd, director and lead engineer, came to the profession through the workshop. Trade-qualified before the degree, which means the design comes from someone who has had to pull a machine apart as well as put one together.
The work before Inventra was grain handling, seeding and tillage equipment, and control systems on irrigation infrastructure — product development, design and PLC work for Australian manufacturers. The same gear this business is built around.
Wagga Power & Water
Stormwater pipe, Diamond Grid permeable paving and SenseMyFarm remote monitoring — stocked at East Wagga and supported under our trading name, for farms, subdivisions, civil contractors and industrial sites across the Riverina.
Start with the problem
A sketch, a photo of the broken part, or a paragraph describing what the machine needs to do. That's enough to have a useful first conversation.