Available for new projects
Sébastien Orban
Design and delivery of cross-disciplinary systems — software, electronics, mechanics — for the problems standard solutions can't solve.
Approach
From specification to field deployment. Design, build, develop, integrate — one point of contact for the entire system.
Hard-to-reach environments, unusual constraints, needs that existing products don't address. That's precisely where a cross-disciplinary approach makes the difference.
Every system is designed to work in actual conditions — not a lab. Maintainability, robustness and adaptability are built in from day one.
Services
Environment · Industry · Seveso · ATEX
From the sensor in the channel to the pump that reacts to it — measurement, control and maintenance for sites that have to prove what they discharge.
Robotics · Inspection · Field Deployment
Where divers can't go, draining isn't an option, and standard equipment stops at the entrance — remotely operated systems built for the access problem itself.
Software · Electronics · Mechanics
When the tool you need doesn't exist, or the ones you have don't talk to each other — software, electronics and mechanics designed around how the system actually works.
Projects
Research · Data acquisition
University research laboratory, Belgium
Replacing an ageing LabVIEW / CompactRIO acquisition chain on animal respiration chambers — with an open, maintainable stack the lab controls.
Monitoring · Sewer network · Field intervention
Sewer network operator, Belgium
Bringing a neglected network of sewer monitoring cabinets back to life — and knowing where it made sense to stop.
Process control · Industrial effluent
Industrial food producer, Belgium
Automatic acid dosing for a pH 12 production effluent — designed for a strong base, a strong acid and a flow that never stays the same.
Robotics · Inspection
Plongeurs Professionnels Associés (PPA)
A remotely operated surface vehicle for inspecting tunnels, culverts and confined waterways — where neither a submarine nor a wheeled robot can go.
Robotics · Inspection
Plongeurs Professionnels Associés (PPA)
A remotely operated vehicle for visual inspection of industrial tanks, basins, rivers and quarries — without divers, without draining.
Software · Operational tooling
Quoidbach SRL
A custom appointment scheduling system for tyre fitting operations — live since 2013, continuously maintained and evolved.
How I work
Every project is delivered turnkey — equipment, fabrication and labour — and split into phases. Each phase ends with something concrete and a decision point: continue, adjust, or stop. No commitment to a full build before the need is understood.
Understanding the need, the site and the existing systems. Output: a validated, buildable definition — or a clear answer that it isn't worth building.
Survey, test or prototype on the riskiest part, where the uncertainty is real. You see it working before committing to the rest.
Design, fabrication, development, installation, commissioning. One point of contact, partners brought in where their expertise is needed.
Maintenance, calibration, hosting, upgrades. Systems are designed to evolve with your needs rather than be replaced.
About
Random Mechanicals is built on a Renaissance-company model — the conviction that art, science and engineering are not separate disciplines, but different expressions of the same curiosity.
After nearly a decade as an IT consultant — product owner and project lead on complex infrastructures — I chose to work differently: designing and building complete systems, end to end, for needs that fall between disciplines and that nobody else knows how to address.
Software, electronics, mechanics, field work, design: I operate at the intersection because that's precisely where the interesting problems live — and where a single person who refuses to specialise becomes an asset rather than an anomaly.
I don't work alone. Random Mechanicals operates within a network of long-established partners — Ecotechnic for environmental and industrial instrumentation among them. You get one point of contact, accountable from start to finish, backed by companies with years of field experience.
Based in Belgium. On-site intervention available.
13
years in production for my longest-running system — 99.9% uptime
3
disciplines combined: software, electronics, mechanics
1
point of contact — backed by a network of established partners
Contact
Describe your need — even roughly. If nobody else has been able to help, that's probably where I'm most useful.