Alongside our engineering service lines, we research technology that helps industry understand its machines, processes and data. We have several projects in the pipeline. This page shows the ones we can share.
R&D is where we test new technology before anything is offered as a product or a work package.
R&D projects sit apart from the aerospace and defence work packages we deliver for customers.
We mark a capability as working only once we have tested it, the same way we treat verification evidence.
Each project states what works today, what is in development and what is planned.
We develop with real shops. Pilot partners help decide what we build next.
CNC machine monitoring for machine shops. It reads each machine's control and shows, machine by machine, what is running, what has stopped, the condition reported by the control and the reason the operator gives. From that come machine utilisation, downtime tracking and OEE. The collector, screens and operator tablet work today in our lab; OEE accuracy is being checked before we use it at a customer, and it is not yet installed on a customer's machine.
