Accelerated Innovation & Faster Deployment — by adding Structure.
Develop your own Automation Processes — and keep the IP
Fifteen years of these innovation programmes has taught us one thing: developed in-house, with structure, automation deploys in a fraction of the time — and the IP stays firmly in your hands.
Many manufacturers want to develop their automation and process concepts in-house — to keep control of the Key Manufacturing IP that sets them apart, and because no off-the-shelf solution fits. We’ve led exactly these programmes, and done with structure, in-house development carries real advantages and no genuine downside.
- Retain your Key Process IP — hard-won know-how stays in the building.
- No off-the-shelf constraint — build precisely what your process needs.
- Deploy in a fraction of the time — structure speeds it up by orders of magnitude.
- You choose your Equipment Suppliers — you select the partners that support your final Productisation and Scaling phases.
The alternative: hard-won know-how and IP walking out the door — and a far slower route to the line.
Because the Template Specification is already written, and runs through the whole journey, Design · Specify · Source no longer wait on each other — they run in parallel, collapsing months into weeks and speeding the route from idea to a deployed line by orders of magnitude.
And it does more than collapse the timeline. Because the architecture is already defined in the Blueprint, it transforms Supplier Collaboration — the heart of what we do. Your suppliers no longer have to develop the architecture themselves: that takes the risk off their side and frees each of them to concentrate on what they do best, all building to one shared, proven standard.
From idea to a deployed, qualified line
One structured journey — six stages held together by a single overarching specification — that turns a concept into a running, qualified production line without the rework in between.
Concept & Machinery Design
- Process design & flow
- Mechanical · electrical · controls
- Robotics · Advanced Instrumentation
- Plug & Produce architecture
Business Case
- ROI · CapEx/OpEx · TCO
- OEE & throughput calcs
- Options appraisal
- The “Why” — team alignment
Proof of Principle
- Demonstrator / test-rig build
- Trials · design of experiments
- Technology de-risking
- Acceptance criteria
Supplier Selection
- Spec & tender (URS · RFQ)
- Vendor-independent scoring
- Best-in-class per Function
- Contracts & supply chain
Integration
- Systems integration
- Control & data networks
- Software / controls structure
- Digital thread · commissioning
Pilot & Productisation
- Qualification · GAMP 5
- CE Marking · Regulatory
- Traceability & serialisation
- Scale without rework
qualified line
One Solutions Architect who takes manufacturing equipment from concept to a deployed, qualified line — concept design, business case, proof of principle, vendor-independent supplier selection, integration, and pilot to productisation.
From one proven design to a deployed network
Watch the standard, modular design adapt an existing site — swapping a whole Area, adding a storage bay, exchanging Units and Modules — then roll out across multiple sites, going live in days, not months.
Every Function plugs into one standard
Distinct from Home, Services and How We Work — this is the outcome stream: the route from a new idea to a deployed, qualified line, on one adaptive model.