Most plants are further along than they think — the data exists, it is just stranded on the machine that produced it.
Technology choices are easy to make for the wrong reasons — familiarity, fashion, or whoever is available to staff it. We choose for the skills you can actually hire and support.
What we build with it
- Sensor selection and edge gateways
- OPC UA and industrial protocol integration
- Edge versus cloud architecture
- Time-series storage and dashboards
- Predictive maintenance models
- Security and device management
How we use it
Anything that must act within a machine cycle stays at the edge; anything comparing lines or months goes central.
We prototype the risky part first — the integration, the performance question, the thing nobody has done before — so the uncertainty is resolved while it is still cheap to change direction.
Work is delivered by a named team you can talk to directly, with progress visible weekly rather than reported at milestones. If something is going wrong, you will hear it from us before you notice it yourself.
When it is the right choice
Data off the machine and into a decision.
We are engineers before we are a sales organisation. That means an estimate arrives with the assumptions attached, and if we think the work should not happen, we will say so.
Common questions
Why this rather than an alternative?
Usually because of the skills you can hire and support locally, not because of a benchmark. We will explain the trade-off in plain terms.
Will we be locked in?
We design to keep the exit affordable, and flag anywhere a choice makes leaving expensive.
Do you provide ongoing support?
Yes, under an SLA, or we can train your team to take it on. Both are legitimate.
Talk to us about iot
A short conversation with an engineer is usually faster than another round of research. Request a consultation and we will tell you plainly whether we are the right fit — including when we are not.