04Automate
Improve flow, productivity and the economics of production
Sector-specific value creation with our operating model.
Investment + executive mandate sector
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The problem
Manufacturers face labour constraints, ageing assets, volatile demand, quality pressure and a growing menu of technologies. The difficult question is where intervention will earn a return.
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Our view
The production system comes before the technology.
We start with demand, material flow, capacity, yield, downtime, quality, labour and working capital. Robotics, machine vision, predictive maintenance or a platform investment only make sense when they improve a measured operating constraint.
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What we do
Flow and production4
- Demand and production planning
- OEE, cycle time and bottleneck analysis
- Material flow, WIP and warehouse interface
- Changeover, yield, scrap and rework
Assets and maintenance4
- Asset criticality and uptime
- Maintenance strategy and spares
- Predictive and condition-based maintenance
- Maintenance versus growth capex
Automation and industrial technology4
- Robotics and cobots
- Machine vision and inspection
- Intralogistics and autonomous movement
- Digital twins and simulation where the economics justify them
Commercial and cash4
- Product and customer profitability
- Inventory and working capital
- Supplier and capacity risk
- Capex business cases and benefit tracking
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What value changes
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Why we can execute
The manufacturing proposition combines owner economics, operating-model discipline and applied automation. The objective is a stronger production business, not a technology demonstration.
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Current evidence
267Industrial robots per 10,000 manufacturing employees in Western Europe in 2024, a record reported in April 2026. International Federation of Robotics, 8 Apr 2026
2%UK manufacturers reporting that AI is widely embedded across their operations in Make UK's 2026 research. Make UK, 8 Jun 2026
61% → 97%On-time delivery improvement at Schneider Electric's El Paso Lighthouse site after data, logistics, industrial IoT and AI changes. World Economic Forum, 22 Jun 2026
Two routes