01 - What We Do

Eight capabilities. One TSA.

Drapes & Accessories→ Soft goods, FR treatment, hire fleet. Sets, Scenery & Props→ Scenic builds, props, set hardware. Lifting & Rigging→ Chain, pile & drum hoists, controllers, consumables. Production Engineering→ Production management, design, custom kit. Venue Engineering & Installation→ Fit-outs, integration, upgrades. Dance & Studio Equipment→ Sprung floors, barres, mirrors, vinyl. Compliance & Service→ Inspections, certificates, callouts. Hire & Touring→ Calendar-driven kit. National coverage.
Products
Services
Drapes & Accessories Soft goods, supplied and supported. Drapes, tracks, FR treatment and hire fleet from our in-house workshop. Theatre-grade soft goods, engineered, FR-treated and serviced under TSA.
Services
Sets, Scenery & Props Built in-house. Toured nationally. Set construction, prop fabrication, museum and gallery fit-out and exhibition builds from our dedicated workshop. Concept to strike, with the engineering paperwork to back it.
Products
Services
Lifting & Rigging Rated gear. Stocked and serviced here. EXE Rise and Ace chain hoists, TSA pile and Hercules drum hoists, Atlas controllers, full consumables range. Design, supply, install, service, recertify.
Services
Production Engineering When off-the-shelf stops working. Production management, technical design and drafting, custom fabrication and cue-driven motion control. The technical side of your show - managed, designed, built and run.
Services
Venue Engineering & Installation Fit-out to commission, one team. Venue fit-outs, system installation, integration and safety upgrades. From new-build PACs to retrofit refurbishments. Engineered, documented, signed off.
Products
Dance & Studio Equipment Made for the joints that depend on it. Sprung floors, Tarkett performance vinyl, ballet barres, studio mirrors, tap and sports flooring. Measured, manufactured and installed to the room.
Inspections & programmes
Specialist inspections
Compliance & Service The paperwork your insurer asks for. Service & Inspection Programme, Venue Systems Health Check, electrical testing, emergency callouts. Defensible documentation, on schedule.
Services
Hire & Touring Calendar-driven kit. National coverage. Drape hire, hoist hire, touring packages. The same kit you'd buy, available on a calendar. Picked, prepped, shipped, collected.
02 - Industries

Eleven industries. One TSA.

Theatres & Performing Arts Centres Lyric houses, regional PACs, repertory venues. Long-cycle compliance, dark-week installs. Schools & Education Term-break windows, school-budget cycles, training programmes. Worship Venues Acoustic-sensitive spaces, AV-led production, multi-purpose halls. Stadiums, Convention Centres & Live Events Arena rigging, convention fit-outs, large-format event delivery. AV & Production Hire Companies Trade supply, cross-hire inventory, servicing and specialist support. Touring Productions Tour-ready packages, on-the-road servicing, certified gear. Film, TV & Studios Studio rigging, broadcast support, motion-controlled scenic. Museums & Galleries Permanent galleries, touring exhibitions, heritage recreations, display fabrication. Dance Studios & Companies Sprung floors, ballet barres and studio mirrors, made to the room. Corporate & Conference Venues Conference stages, auditorium AV, corporate event rigging and staging. Government & Civic Venues Council-owned PACs, civic centres, town halls and public venues.
Proof of work Recent Projects Lyric theatres, arenas, museums, schools and studios. The jobs behind the capability, and what we specified, built and signed off on each one.
A TSA control console with dual monitors showing a cue list and a 3D stage view.

Systems integration - TSA engineers a venue's stage systems to operate as one environment, under one control layer, with every interface owned by one party

Venue engineering · Systems integration

Separate systems. One engineered environment.

Hoists, lighting bars, curtain track and acoustic banners specified together, wired into one control layer and commissioned with every interface owned by one party. Engineered into the building, documented, and supported long after handover.

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Stage systems installed for venues around Australia
HOTA Home of the Arts Canberra Theatre Centre Brisbane Powerhouse Ipswich Civic Centre Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Arts Queensland National Gallery of Victoria WA Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries Griffith University University of Melbourne Queensland University of Technology Cairns Convention Centre Melbourne Olympic Park
How we plug in

Start at the drawing.
Or start with what you own.

Starting at concept or with a plant room of other suppliers' kit, you get one control layer, one set of documentation and one party accountable for every interface.

01

Design the whole environment as one system

Every subsystem specified together and engineered onto one control layer, so load paths and interfaces agree before anything is fabricated.

02

Integrate new kit into your existing systems

New hoists, bars or track engineered to work with what the venue already runs, then assessed, coordinated and commissioned as one environment.

03

Bring separate systems under one control layer

A venue that grew system by system, unified: one control architecture, one E-stop philosophy, one set of documentation.

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New-build to retrofit, Australia wide
A multi-monitor show control desk with cue lists and video feeds.
Control desk cue lists and video feeds on one desk
What systems integration is

Engineered to work
as one.

Systems integration makes a building's stage systems operate as one: hoists, lighting bars, curtain track and acoustic banners specified together, wired into a single control layer and commissioned with every interface owned by one party.

Who it is forVenue managers, consultants and head contractors
Bought separatelyThe venue owns every gap between systems, and the gaps surface in install or in operation
Integrated by TSAGaps closed on paper first, with every load path and interface coordinated before fabrication
Under one roofScenic, rigging, automation, drapes and electronics
Hand-offIntegration specifies the environment, installation delivers it, both by one team
Hoists & grouped truss Pile-hoist bars Track & banners One control layer SEB / AVB / SLB outlets
Where it earns its keep

Four jobs, one system.

Designed as one

Hoists, bars, track and banners specified by the same engineers - load paths and interfaces agree in design, where a clash costs a drawing revision, not the programme.

One control layer

Multi-axis control, a global E-stop on the operator pendant, user levels matched to who is at the controls, live load monitoring - one system to learn, one to service.

Wired into the building

Power, data and control designed in through stage-engineering outlet boxes - so the venue operates as one system from the first power-up.

The trades, carried

Coordination with lighting, audio, video and the building trades is part of the engagement - the seams between scopes owned by one party, not argued over on site.

What we integrate

What gets integrated.

Broadcast, studio, teaching and performance venues. Each system is specified, powered and controlled as part of one environment, not bought as a line item and bolted on.

Chain hoists hung in a ceiling opening above a venue.
Chain hoists hung in a venue ceiling

Hoists & grouped hoist-truss systems

  • Chain hoists
  • Box truss
  • Load cell per hoist

Chain hoists carrying box truss, each hoist operating independently but electronically linked to move as one unit, with a load cell per hoist keeping weight balanced across the group.

Looking up at a grid of pipe battens and lighting bars above a stage.
A pipe grid of battens overhead

Pile-hoist lighting bars

  • Pile hoists
  • Lighting bars
  • Own power and data

Ceiling-mounted pile hoists raising internally-cabled lighting bars and general-purpose battens on multiple steel wire ropes, with their own power, data and cable management.

Sheer and black drapes hanging from a curved curtain track.
Curved track carrying sheer and black drapes

Curtain track & acoustic systems

  • Curtain track
  • Acoustic panels
  • Preset recording

Curtain track integrated with the grid and rigging above it, and acoustic curtain panels and roller banners on a control system with positioning and preset recording.

A wall plate labelled hoist control system pendant connection point, with the TSA logo.
A hoist control pendant connection point

The control layer

  • Multi-axis control
  • Global E-stop
  • Live load monitoring

Multi-axis control, a pendant-mounted global E-stop, multiple user levels and live load monitoring. TSA's own integrated system, with Atlas controllers where hoist control calls for them.

Heavy-duty power and control connectors on stage cabling.
Power and control connectors

Power, data & outlet boxes

  • SEB
  • AVB
  • SLB

SEB, AVB and SLB stage-engineering outlet boxes feed power and control to hoists and equipment at the point of use, designed into the venue and not cabled around it afterwards.

Hoist control at product level lives with the Atlas controller family; per-show automation is Production Engineering. This page is the building: permanent systems, engineered to operate as one.

In the venue

What ties together, in place.

The systems an integration brings under one control layer, shown in a working venue. Select a numbered pin to see how each one is tied in, then open its page.

How it runs

From the existing kit to a system your team runs.

One team, in this order, with every interface owned by one party.

  1. Step 01

    Assess what is there

    Existing kit is assessed first. Where it is rated, compliant and compatible it is coordinated in; where it is not, we say so plainly.

  2. Step 02

    Specify it together

    Hoists, bars, track and banners specified by the same engineers, so load paths and interfaces agree before anything is fabricated.

  3. Step 03

    Wire it to one control layer

    Every subsystem engineered onto TSA's own integrated control system, with every interface owned by one party.

  4. Step 04

    Commission as one system

    Commissioned in-house as one documented system, signed off and handed over.

  5. Step 05

    Train and support

    Operators trained to competency on the system that was installed, then supported by the team that engineered it.

The great hall at Cairns Convention Centre set for an event, lit in purple and blue.
In the venue

Commissioned in-house as one documented system, signed off and handed over.

Cairns Convention Centre The great hall
An EXE Rise 1000 kg chain hoist rigged in the Cairns Convention Centre array.
Hoist array Cairns Convention Centre
A technician uses the touchscreen of a Raynok Micro+ controller during commissioning.
Raynok control commissioning
On the job

Cairns: 36 hoists,
one ceiling.

TSA designed, installed and commissioned a 36-axis hoist array at Cairns Convention Centre, with Raynok control.

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Proof in service

Integrated once.
Running for years.

From a multi-studio broadcast facility to convention-centre stages and a 4,000-show arena spectacular - environments engineered as one system, and still in service.

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Start the conversation

Tell us what the building runs.

Australia wide

New-build to retrofit, Australia wide.

One party owns every interface, in every building.

FAQ

Questions
about systems integration.

If your question isn't here, talk to our team and we'll come back with the right answer for your building.

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Systems integration is engineering a venue's stage systems - hoists, lighting bars, curtain track, acoustic banners and their power and control - to operate as one environment rather than a set of separate installations. TSA designs the subsystems together, brings them under a single control layer and commissions the result as one documented system. Because scenic, rigging, automation, drapes and electronics capability sit in one organisation, the interfaces between them are owned by one party.
Yes - new systems are regularly engineered into venues with equipment already in service. Existing kit is assessed first, and where it is rated, compliant and compatible it is coordinated into the wider environment or brought under the one control layer. Where it is not, we tell you plainly and set out the upgrade path, which is where our safety upgrades work begins.
The control layer is TSA's own integrated system, engineered and commissioned in-house as part of the venue. It provides multi-axis control across everything that moves, a global E-stop carried on the operator pendant, user levels matched to operators, technicians and administrators, and live load monitoring during operation. Where chain-hoist control is part of the environment, TSA's Atlas controller family is specified and supported nationally.
A stage-engineering outlet box - an SEB, AVB or SLB - is a wall- or ceiling-mounted connection point that feeds power and control to stage equipment where it works, so a studio hoist or bar connects at the point of use instead of trailing cable across the venue. They are designed into the building during a fit-out or integration, which is what lets equipment be repositioned, connected and stowed without rework.
Yes. After commissioning, your operators are trained to competency on the specific system that was installed - not a generic course - so the venue can run its own environment from handover. Training covers the control levels, the E-stop philosophy and the day-to-day operation the system was designed around.
The install is handed over documented and signed off, and the ongoing relationship is carried by TSA's compliance and service offers - the Venue Systems Health Check and the Service & Inspection Programme. That keeps the integrated system inspected, maintained and documented year on year by the team that engineered it, Australia wide.
One building, one system

Every system.
One number to call.

Tell us the venue, the systems it runs and where they need to be. We'll come back with how we would engineer them into one environment - and stand behind it long after handover.

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  • We assess. Existing kit first, and we say so plainly.
  • We specify. Hoists, bars, track and banners together.
  • We commission. One system, signed off, operators trained.
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