Machinery and workshop wiring in Auckland
The Conduction Company wires, connects and maintains machinery in Auckland workshops and light factories. That covers three-phase supplies from the switchboard, motor starters, emergency stops and isolators, tested and certified. PLCs, variable speed drives and process lines go to industrial specialists.
Are You Experiencing Problems with Machinery Wiring?
The fault The Conduction Company sees most is technicians and mechanical engineers wiring machines themselves, and a wiring mistake can give someone a shock or make a machine run in reverse. A new machine needs three-phase power from the switchboard, a critical machine has broken down and production has stopped, or a motor or control fault has a workshop machine out of action. Old cabling in high-impact areas has worn where pallets slam into it, an emergency stop cannot be reached, does not latch, or fails its test, and new machines are going in with nobody sure the supply can carry them.
The Conduction Company connects, repairs and maintains machinery in Auckland workshops and light factories, tests and certifies the work, and refers PLCs, variable speed drives and process control to industrial specialists.
Jordan Statham, a registered electrician and electrical inspector who owns The Conduction Company, draws the line plainly: "There's a clear divide between industrial and residential or commercial work, and you've got to pick someone who knows what they're doing in either field."
Who is a good industrial electrician in Auckland for factory machinery?
For workshop machines and light factory work, The Conduction Company fits. For process plant, hire a specialist industrial electrician.
The Conduction Company is not an industrial electrician and does not claim to be. It has no instrumentation technicians on the team. Multi-stage process lines, process control, PLCs and variable speed drives are specialist work, and The Conduction Company refers them to contacts in the industry it trusts. What it does is the light industrial work a busy workshop needs: new machine connections, three-phase outlets, motor starters, fault finding, repairs and planned maintenance. That sits alongside The Conduction Company's commercial electrical services for offices, shops and fit-outs.
What's the difference between an electrician and an industrial electrician?
The Conduction Company's answer: the base knowledge is the same, but the products, controls and working environment are not.
An industrial electrician knows the specific products and control systems that keep a process plant running: complex multi-stage machinery, digital or analogue process control, and a lot of instrumentation and monitoring. A residential and commercial electrician knows how to get power somewhere in a finished building, through a mid floor, down inside a wall, or from the space under a house. "It's very different running conduit along an industrial wall to get power to an outlet," Jordan Statham says, compared with crawling under a home to put an outlet on a wall.
Each side calls the other in. The Conduction Company recently replaced the switchboard and the mains cable at the home of an industrial process electrician, and organised the supply through Vector and the meter installers. That is work an industrial electrician would rarely do, which is why he called The Conduction Company. In a large industrial factory, The Conduction Company brings in industrial specialists for the same reason.
Can you run a 3-phase power supply to new machinery in a commercial workshop?
Yes. The Conduction Company runs three-phase power from the switchboard to new workshop machinery, in conduit along the wall.
The job has four parts. New three-pole circuit protection goes into the switchboard, labelled, and becomes the machine's isolation point. The cable runs to the machine in surface-mounted conduit. At the machine end, The Conduction Company terminates it into the machine, or into a three-phase socket outlet on a backing board with a plug to suit. Then it tests the circuit and certifies it. A new machine circuit gets a certificate of compliance and an electrical safety certificate.
Where a motor needs a starter, The Conduction Company supplies and fits direct-on-line (DOL) motor starters with overload protection and push-button control. On one workshop job the client's old motor had failed and its supply flex was mangled. The team replaced the cable, reinstalled the new motor, tested it and issued the electrical safety certificate.
What has to be ready before you can connect a new machine?
The Conduction Company needs the machine fully assembled and in its final place before connecting it.
A machine that is still coming out of its boxes in stages cannot be livened up one stage at a time. It also needs clear floor space, its own dedicated area, and whatever safety set-up its operators need, such as a clear zone around it. With that in place, The Conduction Company handles the electrical side: connecting it, testing it and certifying it.
What are the machine wiring regulations?
The Conduction Company wires every machine connection to AS/NZS 3000, New Zealand's Wiring Rules.
Clause 4.13.1.1 says every motor needs a switching device, or devices, that can do three jobs: start and stop the motor, stop it in an emergency, and isolate it for mechanical maintenance. Clause 4.13.2 adds overload protection for every motor rated over 370 W, unless the motor is built into equipment that meets its own standard. Clause 4.13.1.4 requires measures against danger where a motor turning the wrong way could make the machine unsafe. Those are the checks The Conduction Company runs on every motor it connects.
How much does it cost to wire a three-phase machine in a workshop in NZ?
The Conduction Company prices it on distance to the switchboard, machine size, and the plug it needs.
A typical connection from The Conduction Company is one three-phase socket outlet on a backing board, a plug to suit, a cable run in conduit back to the switchboard, and circuit protection at the board.
For how Auckland electricians charge by the hour, The Conduction Company's guide to electrician costs in Auckland sets out the rates and what drives them.
What makes one machine connection cost much more than another?
In The Conduction Company's experience, the biggest cost driver is how much current the machine draws.
A small machine with a single motor may need only a 10 amp three-phase plug and a light cable. A large machine with several heaters, several bigger three-phase motors and its own control system can need a 50 amp three-phase plug. That means a much thicker cable, and a trickier cable run as a result. Distance adds to it as well: the further the machine sits from the switchboard, the longer the run The Conduction Company has to install.
Which Auckland electrical contractor can install machines and emergency stops in a factory?
The Conduction Company connects workshop machines across Auckland and works on the emergency stops and isolators that go with them.
The rules The Conduction Company works to are in AS/NZS 3000 clause 2.3.5. An emergency stop must sit where danger might occur, and at any extra remote position someone may need it. It must latch in the off position, must not restart the machine when it is released and, where danger is likely, must need a manual reset. The button is red on a contrasting background. A plug pulled from a socket does not count as the emergency stop, though a switch on that socket can. Clause 2.3.5.1 lists machinery and teaching laboratories among its examples.
Safety-rated control systems, the kind built around a safety PLC and a full machine risk assessment, are plant-scale work. The Conduction Company refers those to industrial specialists.
How do WorkSafe's emergency stop rules affect older workshops?
The Conduction Company's reading: WorkSafe has issued no new emergency stop rule, so older workshops face no upgrade deadline.
WorkSafe rewrote its Safe use of machinery guidelines in 2026. The Conduction Company's research found the emergency stop advice is the same as the 2014 version. A stop backs up guarding and never replaces it. It is never used to lock a machine out. It sits within reach of each person using the machine, it is red on yellow, it needs resetting by hand, and it is tested regularly.
Old does not mean exempt, though. The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 makes a business keep its plant safe so far as is reasonably practicable, judged on what is known today. A stop that cannot be reached, does not latch, or fails its test needs fixing, whatever its age. In 2025 a fertiliser company was fined $420,000 after a worker died on a conveyor whose emergency stops workers could not easily reach. The Conduction Company's advice: review your stops whenever a machine is added or moved, or new people start using it.
On the electrical side, the Electricity (Safety) Regulations 2010 let an existing installation carry on while it is not electrically unsafe and still meets the rules it was built to. Any alteration has to meet the current AS/NZS 3000. The requirement is not new either: AS/NZS 3000:2000 already called for emergency stopping where electrically driven machinery could cause danger. So in The Conduction Company's view, a workshop wired since 2000 should already have stops wherever its machines could hurt someone.
What happens when a machine breaks down and production stops?
When a machine breaks down, The Conduction Company first asks how critical it is to your production.
Many sites keep a spare of their smaller machines, so a breakdown is not always urgent. When it is a critical machine and production has stopped, The Conduction Company pulls an electrician off another job. "In which case we drop everything and try to get people on-site as quickly as possible to lower the downtime," Jordan Statham says. The team loads the van with the parts most likely to be at fault. Without seeing the machine that is partly a shot in the dark, so they go in as prepared as they can, find the fault on site and fix it. The Conduction Company is reachable 24/7.
What does factory electrical maintenance cover?
The Conduction Company's planned factory maintenance cleans switchboard enclosures, re-tightens terminations, and checks motors and mechanical protection.
A planned visit from The Conduction Company covers the jobs that stop a fault before it stops production. Apprentices clean inside the switchboard enclosures. Every termination is tightened so vibration cannot work it loose over time. Machinery gets greased. Brushes in DC motors are swapped out. The terminals on motor casings are checked, and so is every piece of mechanical protection, to make sure it is still in place and secure. Anything deteriorated, slightly damaged or just holding on gets fixed. That is what planned maintenance shutdowns are for: keeping the machines running through the production periods.
Can you work on our factory without stopping production?
Sometimes, but The Conduction Company usually shuts down the section it is working on.
Moving machinery around someone working on it is a real safety risk, so in most cases at least that section stops. The Conduction Company isolates it, then locks and tags out the isolator so nothing can move and nothing is live. The Electricity (Safety) Regulations require the lock to be used wherever an isolation point has a locking facility. AS/NZS 3000 clause 2.3.6.1 requires a means, such as a lock, to stop the machine being switched back on during mechanical maintenance. WorkSafe's guidelines are clear that an emergency stop is never the lock-out.
Where the machinery allows, The Conduction Company gets a stage back running while it fixes a particular component. Sometimes it can liven up another machine and pull it into place as a temporary stage, so production carries on, if a bit slower. Disruptive work can be booked at night or over a weekend, outside your trading hours.
What goes wrong most often in factory electrical wiring?
The fault The Conduction Company sees most is technicians and mechanical engineers wiring machines themselves.
They are clever people for the most part, but a wiring mistake can give someone a shock, or make a machine run in reverse and hurt someone. Then the legal side is a nightmare to unravel. "We highly recommend that technicians, mechanical engineers, don't try to touch the electrical side no matter how much knowledge they have of the electrical," Jordan Statham says.
The other common fault The Conduction Company finds is old, deteriorated cabling in high-impact areas. Cable that pallets slam into again and again wears out fast, and can cut the power to a machine.
Who can legally do factory electrical work?
The Conduction Company's answer: only an authorised person, such as a registered electrician with a current practising licence. The Electricity Act 1992 restricts prescribed electrical work to authorised people, so The Conduction Company's advice is to leave machine wiring to them.
Prescribed electrical work includes installing, connecting and maintaining the wiring in an installation, which covers the wiring that feeds a machine. If a machine needs electrical work, call The Conduction Company before anyone opens it up.
When does a workshop need a bigger supply before new machines go in?
The Conduction Company checks the supply whenever a workshop adds machines or replaces them with bigger ones.
AS/NZS 3000 clause 1.6.3 requires the consumer mains, submains and equipment to be designed and installed to meet the installation's maximum demand. So before new machinery goes in, The Conduction Company works out what the new loads will draw against what the supply and the switchboard can carry. If the board is the limit, that is a three-phase switchboard upgrade. If the supply itself is too small, the upgrade goes through the network company, Vector across most of Auckland, and the meter installers.
Does The Conduction Company repair industrial motors?
Yes. The Conduction Company fixes motor and control faults on workshop machines, and sends motors out for rewinding.
The latest machine The Conduction Company fixed made beeswax crayons. A small motor lifts a mould plate to push the cooled crayons up and out, and normally keeps lifting until the plate latches. This time the motor whirred but nothing moved. The team traced it to a faulty relay, an easy part to replace, and had the machine running again quickly.
Repair or replace comes down to cost and timing, in The Conduction Company's experience. An older machine may use a motor that is expensive to replace, or no longer made. A rewind can then be the most cost-effective fix, as Jordan Statham explains: if a new motor is four months away and a rewind takes three weeks, rewinding gets you back to full production far sooner.
In short
The Conduction Company does the electrical work on machinery in Auckland workshops and light factories, and refers process plant on. It runs three-phase supplies from the switchboard, fits motor starters, works on emergency stops and isolators to AS/NZS 3000, and keeps machines running through breakdowns and planned maintenance. PLCs, variable speed drives and process control go to the specialists it trusts. All of it comes from Jordan Statham's own jobs, with the rules checked against the standard and the regulations.
How The Conduction Company runs a commercial job
Tell Us About the Machine
Tell The Conduction Company what the machine is, what is on its nameplate and how far it sits from the switchboard. It checks what the new load will draw against what the supply and the switchboard can carry.
Plan and Price
The Conduction Company prices the connection on the distance to the switchboard, the size of the machine and the plug it needs, and confirms the final price after an assessment.
Connect, Test, and Certify
Once the machine is assembled and in place, The Conduction Company fits labelled circuit protection at the switchboard, runs the cable in conduit, connects the machine, tests it, and issues a certificate of compliance and an electrical safety certificate.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does it cost to wire a three-phase machine in a workshop?
The Conduction Company prices each connection on the distance to the switchboard, the size of the machine and the plug it needs, then confirms the final price after an assessment. Most connections are one three-phase socket outlet with a plug, a cable run in conduit, and circuit protection at the switchboard.
Do you install emergency stop systems for machinery?
Yes, on workshop machines. The Conduction Company wires and alters emergency stops and isolators to AS/NZS 3000, which requires stops that latch off, need a manual reset where danger is likely, and sit where the danger is. Safety-rated control systems built around a safety PLC go to industrial specialists.
Do you work on PLCs and variable speed drives?
No. The Conduction Company has no instrumentation technicians, so it refers PLC, variable speed drive and process control work to industrial electricians it knows. It does the light industrial side: machine connections, motor starters, fault finding, repairs and maintenance.
How much does an industrial electrician cost?
The Conduction Company does not price industrial process work, because it refers that work to specialists. For workshop and light factory work it quotes each job after an assessment, and its guide to electrician costs in Auckland explains how hourly rates work.
Does a new machine connection need an electrical certificate?
Yes. Adding a circuit for a machine is prescribed electrical work, so under the Electricity (Safety) Regulations 2010 The Conduction Company issues a certificate of compliance and an electrical safety certificate when it finishes.
Can an emergency stop be used to lock out a machine?
No. WorkSafe's machinery guidelines say an emergency stop should never be used to lock a machine out, because a button can separate from its contacts and show off while the machine is still live. The Conduction Company locks the isolator before working on a machine.
Is The Conduction Company a machine installation company?
No. The Conduction Company is an electrical contractor. Once a machine is assembled and in place, it connects the power, tests it and certifies the work.
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Adding a machine, or has one stopped?
Tell The Conduction Company what the machine is, what is on its nameplate and how far it sits from the switchboard. We'll come back to you with a plan and a price, and we're happy to help.