Automation engineering · Sweden

MelDev MelDev

We pave the way for turning smart ideas into reality.

Real-time control systems, custom electronics, and software for industrial and automotive clients. From the first sketch to the production line.

2018 Established
8+ Years running
Cups of coffee
Scroll

Built by engineers who ship.

MelDev AB is an automation and product-engineering shop. We design control systems that run factories, write the software that ties them together, and build the hardware when nothing off-the-shelf will do.

Industrial control

PLC and DCS integration with Siemens, Honeywell, Emerson. Greenfield commissioning, rewrites, retrofits.

Custom electronics

From schematic to assembled PCB. Signal conditioning, peak-and-hold drivers, embedded firmware.

Software, end-to-end

C# / Java backends, iOS & Android apps, OPC / Modbus / Profibus servers, dashboards, databases.

Two decades on the panel.

MelDev is led by Robin Melin — process & control engineer at Honeywell from 2006 to 2018, where he worked as a Lead Engineer on pulp & paper, refinery and quality-control projects across Europe. He left in 2018 to run MelDev AB full-time.

Robin Melin Founder · Lead engineer

Started on the floor as an instrument technician at Selek AB, Hitab AB, and as process engineer at StoraEnso Fors — while finishing ABB Industrial HighSchool on the industrial-process track with extra programming courses A through E and a heavy process-control load.

Joined Honeywell AB in 2006 as Design Engineer in Falun, moved to Mölndal in 2008 as System Engineer working on Experion DCS and Experion MX (formerly DaVinci) QCS, then took the Lead Engineer chair in 2015. National and international rollouts until 2018 — pulp & paper, refining, quality control.

MelDev AB was founded in 2018. Since then: 40+ rollouts in pulp & paper and refining across Europe, plus the bench hardware, automotive electronics, motion VR rigs, and the games and apps that came out of them.

  • Cert.Six Sigma
  • Cert.SSG — environment, work environment, risk assessment, certification
  • Train.Process control & tuning · PLC / DCS / HMI / SCADA · CAD 2D/3D
  • Lang.Swedish · English
  1. 2003 — 2005 Selek AB Instrument technician
  2. 2005 — 2006 Hitab AB · StoraEnso Fors Instrument technician · process engineer
  3. 2006 — 2008 Honeywell AB · Falun Design engineer
  4. 2008 — 2015 Honeywell AB · Mölndal System engineer — Experion DCS / MX QCS
  5. 2015 — 2018 Honeywell AB · Mölndal Lead engineer
  6. 2018 → MelDev AB Founder · engineer

What we do, in detail.

01 Mechanical & electrical design CAD · 3D · print
  • AutoCAD 2D — electrical schematics, panel layouts, mechanical drawings
  • Autodesk Inventor 3D — including print-ready geometry for FDM and SLA
  • Photoshop / vector tooling for documentation and product photography
02 PCB design, fabrication & optimisation EE
  • PCB design to spec — single, double or multi-layer, lead-free
  • Surface-mount programming & small-batch assembly
  • Custom I/O modules and signal-conversion boards for industrial buses
03 Custom software development Full-stack
  • Java, C, C#, C++, Node.js — backends and services
  • iOS (Xcode / Swift) and Android (Kotlin) apps
  • Unreal Engine — game logic, hardware bridges, motion / VR integration
  • Python · PHP · VB / VB.NET — tooling, integration, legacy automation
  • SQL / Oracle databases, schema design, optimisation
  • OPC, Modbus, Profibus, ProfiNET, IEC 61850, IEC 60870 — custom servers and clients
  • Embedded — Windows CE, Windows Embedded, bare-metal
  • ActiveX / DLL interop where the legacy world demands it
04 Hardware & software experience Vendors
  • Honeywell — Experion DCS, Experion MX (formerly DaVinci) QCS, on pulp & paper and refining lines across Europe (lead-engineer rollouts 2015–2018)
  • Siemens — S7 PLCs, STEP 7, WinCC SCADA
  • Emerson — DeltaV, Ovation
  • ABB — instrument-technician roots, process-automation foundation
  • Microsoft — Windows server stack, .NET, Office automation
  • Autodesk — AutoCAD 2D, Inventor 3D for schematics, panel layouts and print-ready geometry

Selected work.

A few of the things that left the bench. Click any card for detail; embedded videos are pulled from YouTube.

Fuel-pressure tester

Custom PCB plus the control software that runs it. Drop-in test rig for fuel-system QA.

PCB · Embedded · Software

Smart relay central

User-programmable industrial relay controller. Timers, counters, sequenced outputs, all from a touch UI.

Hardware · Firmware

Dash for cars & boats

Integrated GPS nav for land and sea, Bluetooth telemetry, real-time engine monitoring.

Hardware · iOS · CAN/J1939

Dash, live

The dash on a Yamaha F100 outboard — trim, RPM, engine temp.

3-DOF VR motion chair

Pitch / roll / yaw simulator chair for virtual-reality content. Hardware + driver software.

Mechatronics · VR

Chair, live

Driving a virtual rollercoaster on the chair — full 3 DOF.

Excavator drill angler

XYZ drill-angle measurement — operator never has to climb out of the cab to check angle.

Sensor fusion · Mobile

Big-block CNC EFI intake

Custom CNC intake manifold for a BBC, designed to fit a tight bay. Full 3D model with throttle simulation.

3D · CNC

12-channel peak-and-hold driver

Limits injector current — peak to open, hold to keep open. Twelve channels, one box.

Power electronics · PCB

Things we’ve put in customers’ hands.

Shipped product, not portfolio shots. A motion-aware powerboat racer on PC and iOS, and a native retail / stock-management app with barcode & QR scanning.

01 Power Boat Racing PC · VR · iOS · since 2020
MelDEV Power Boat Racing app icon
Featured release

MelDEV Power Boat Racing

Real ocean physics.
At its edge for PC.

Built in-house from the ground up. Released on Steam in May 2020 and ported to iOS the same year. The only powerboat sim that lets you bolt the cockpit to a hydraulic chair, then keep the same physics core in your pocket.

  • VRSteamVR · HTC Vive · GTX 1080+
  • MotionSimTools 2–6 DOF rigs
  • WheelsLogitech force feedback
  • GamepadXbox-style controllers
  • MobileiPhone 7 and newer

// Power Boat Racing — build details

01 Two-channel water shader, 30 ms LOD pop-in budget.
02 Native VR gameplay — SteamVR pass-through.
03 Cockpit perspective, motion-rig pose buffer at 120 Hz.
02 MelDEV Shopintegrator iOS · iPadOS · WooCommerce · since 2024
MelDEV Shopintegrator app icon
Native iOS

MelDEV Shopintegrator

Stock without
the laptop.

A native iOS & iPadOS app for store and stock management. Built-in barcode / QR scanning, on-the-floor stock counts, workorder tracking, and a built-in timesheet that syncs both ways into WooCommerce through our meldev-flx-custom plugin.

  • ScanRear-camera barcode & QR
  • StockLive SKU lookup, per-bin location
  • TimeWorkorder timesheet, per-customer totals
  • SyncWooCommerce, two-way, plugin-paired

Local-first AI, since the day we could.

We’ve been running open-weight language models on local hardware since they entered the public domain — long before “private LLM” was a marketing bullet. No cloud exfiltration. No per-token bills. Your data, your iron.

On-prem inference

Models that live behind your firewall

Llama, Mistral, Qwen, Gemma — quantised, served, and tuned to fit the GPU you already own. Air-gapped deployments included.

Fine-tuning

Tuned to your domain

Maintenance manuals, ladder logic, your CAD library, your incident history. We curate the dataset, run the LoRA, ship the weights.

RAG & pipelines

Retrieval that respects boundaries

Vector stores hosted alongside your data. Document ingestion, chunking, citations — accountable answers with traceable sources.

Tell us what you’re building.

A short brief is enough to start a conversation. We answer all messages within two business days, usually the same day.

info@meldev.se