A small, founder-led engineering firm in Singapore — building custom industrial test, automation and monitoring systems end-to-end since 2018.
Systemvation took root in 2018 (formerly known as Crank Cloud), founded by JS Lee, a mechatronics engineer with what's now nearly two decades in the field. The original idea was simple and hasn't changed much: industrial systems are usually held together by a chain of vendors who each handle one slice — mechanical, electrical, software, commissioning — and the cracks between those slices are where projects quietly fail. We wanted to be the team that owns the whole thing, end-to-end.
JS was joined early by Clara, a fellow mechatronics engineer with a software bent and a very different temperament — JS will happily live in a wiring diagram for a week; Clara is the one who keeps the project moving, the client informed, and the delivery on the calendar. That partnership is still the core of how Systemvation runs today.
Between them, JS and Clara have worked across well over 200 projects spanning aerospace test stations, semiconductor QA rigs, HDB Smart Nation infrastructure, custom PCB design, and small-scale R&D rigs — from a few thousand dollars to projects in the high six figures. The thread through all of it is the same: take responsibility for the full system, design for the team that has to live with it five years later, and stay around to support what we built.
Two founders, one accountable team. We stay close to every project — there is no handover from the people who sold the work to the people who deliver it.
Co-founder · Technical Lead
Mechatronics engineer with nearly two decades in industrial test, automation, and electronic design. JS leads the technical side of the firm — system architecture, LabVIEW software design, electrical and electronic design, control box wiring, and the hands-on engineering judgement on every project. Has personally architected over 200 systems across aerospace, semiconductor, smart infrastructure, and R&D, with project budgets ranging from a few thousand to several hundred thousand dollars. Holds a bachelor's degree in mechatronics engineering.
Co-founder · Operations Lead
Engineer-turned-operator with over a decade of project leadership across LabVIEW, PLC, SolidWorks and Altium-based systems. Clara runs the operations side of Systemvation — project management, delivery, client communications, vendor coordination, and after-sales support. She's the reason commissioning weeks run on schedule and the reason our clients still hear from us long after handover. Like JS, holds a bachelor's degree in mechatronics engineering.
We're a small firm by choice. Smaller team, longer client relationships, and the people who designed the system are the same people who commission it and pick up the phone when something needs adjusting two years in. That's the version of "engineering services" we wanted to build, and it's the one we keep choosing.
A few things we hold to:
Asia Business Outlook named Systemvation one of Singapore's Top 10 Electronic Engineering & Design Service Providers. The annual feature profiles engineering firms quietly shaping Singapore's industrial base — test, measurement, monitoring, PCB design, and smart-infrastructure integration.
A few highlights from the conversation:
"The best system is the one the operator trusts three years in — not the one that demos well at handover. We build for the long tail: repeatable, maintainable, designed so the on-site team can keep it running without us in the room."
"A lot of our work starts where other vendors stop. A client comes to us with a rig that works 'most of the time,' or a PLC line that can't talk to anything upstream. We do the hardware, the software, the integration, the commissioning — one accountable supplier instead of three pointing at each other."
"Industry 4.0 asked 'can we automate this?' Industry 5.0 asks 'should we, and who does it serve?' Automation that supports operators rather than replaces them, AI that assists, sustainability as a design constraint. That's where we're pushing our own R&D — including a green-energy occupancy product currently in development."
Recognition like this is never about one team. It's about every client who trusted us with a hard problem, and every engineer who stayed late to get a commissioning right.
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