Integrated disciplines. Intelligent solutions. Delivered worldwide.
From concept to commissioning, HYDCO Engineering designs, builds and supports complex engineered systems through a single, fully integrated team — mechanical, structural, hydraulic, controls, embedded, electrical and fabrication, under one roof in Gujarat, India. A team of experienced engineers, an API 4F Monogram licence, and our equipment already working in Australia and the Gulf — over 50 cumulative years of service in Australia alone — and shortly in Europe.
Pick a discipline.
Meet the whole capability.
Every discipline below is delivered by the same integrated team — so each one is designed to work with the others from day one.
Mechanical design & FEA
3D design and finite element analysis — every load-bearing part proven in simulation before it's cut.
Discipline sheet → 02 / 07Structural & stability verification
Load-path, overturning and righting-moment checks, signed off independently of the design team.
Discipline sheet → 03 / 07Hydraulic system design
Hydraulic schematics and system components — designed and sized by the shop that built the equipment.
Discipline sheet → 04 / 07PLC & controls software
CODESYS / IEC 61131-3 on safety-rated PLCs — including Xenon, the group's own control and telemetry platform, running in the field today.
Discipline sheet → 05 / 07Embedded systems & firmware
Real-time firmware on microcontrollers and embedded SBC platforms — feeding satellite-linked, AI-assisted monitoring of the operating fleet.
Discipline sheet → 06 / 07Electrical design
Schematics, power distribution and panels — structured, serviceable and standards-compliant.
Discipline sheet → 07 / 07Fabrication & international deliveries
6,600 m² under roof at Chhatral, Gujarat — API 4F licensed manufacture, containerised for export.
The facility → + SafetyFunctional safety, across all seven
SIL-rated design, QRA and DFMEA — with RPEQ sign-off on Australian projects.
How it's applied → StartTell us about the project
We'll come back with an engineering approach, an indicative lead time and a single point of contact.
Request a quote →Stop coordinating four vendors. Hire one facility.
A design house, a fabricator, a controls integrator and a safety consultant — every hand-off between them costs you weeks and introduces someone else's assumptions. HYDCO is all four.
Six ways customers use us.
From a finished drawing pack to a problem statement — enter wherever your project actually is.
Build-to-print manufacture
Your drawings, our workshop. Fabricated under an audited quality system and shipped export-ready to your destination market.
How it works → 02Design & build
Bring the problem, not the drawing. Our engineers design for our own shop floor — then build what they designed.
How it works → 03Controls & software
PLC, embedded and telemetry development — including integrating with equipment we didn't build, over CANopen, J1939 and Modbus.
How it works → 04Safety engineering
SIL-rated system design with the documentation to prove it — QRA, DFMEA, and RPEQ sign-off where Australian projects demand it.
How it works → 05Hydraulic diagnosis & correction
Fault-finding and design correction on existing hydraulic systems — including machines that came from someone else's factory.
How it works → 06Support & training
On-site service and operator training wherever the machine runs, from the people who built it — around the clock.
How it works →The team that designs the structure programs the system that controls it.
Most fabricators outsource controls. Most controls houses have never sized a weldment. HYDCO develops the group's own rig control and telemetry platform — Xenon, on CODESYS / IEC 61131-3 — in the same office that runs the FEA. When one team owns structure, hydraulics, software and safety, the interfaces stop being anyone's excuse.
- One accountable engineering team, concept to commissioning
- Embedded systems and firmware, designed in-house
- Remote telemetry and black-box logging built into what we ship
Three continents took delivery before we had a sales team.
Every third-party contract below found us on inbound enquiry. The capability sold itself; now we're telling people it exists.
Australian-owned. Indian-built. Globally accountable.
HYDCO is the wholly-owned manufacturing and design operation of Exploration Drill Rigs Pty Ltd (XDR), Queensland — established together in 2007, run as one company. You get Indian manufacturing economics with Australian engineering accountability, and a single throat to choke across both.
- Same audited quality regime on group products and contract work
- ISO 9001 & API 4F Monogram licence held at the Gujarat facility
- CE-marking experience on multiple directives for the European market — Machinery, Low Voltage, EMC, RoHS, ATEX, PE
Send the drawing. Or just the problem.
Either way it lands with an engineer, not a sales inbox — and comes back as questions worth asking, then a price.