Defined first steps

Engineering assessments and entry packages

Begin with a focused, quotation-based assessment that produces usable engineering evidence and a decision—not an open-ended consultancy commitment.

Productised engineering

Choose the assessment closest to the current decision

Scope and effort are confirmed after a short project discussion. Site access, travel, source availability and specialist third-party assessment requirements are stated separately in the formal quotation.

01

Suitable for

TwinCAT Health Check

Unsupported, inherited, unstable or difficult-to-change TwinCAT projects.

Included

  • Project, version and library inventory
  • Architecture, state, alarm and I/O review
  • Build, backup, recovery and support-risk assessment
  • Prioritised remediation and documentation roadmap

Result: A concise evidence pack explaining what exists, what is at risk and the safest next engineering actions.

02

Suitable for

OPC UA and OEE Proof-of-Concept Definition

Factories that need trustworthy machine data before committing to a site-wide platform.

Included

  • Controls-estate and connectivity survey
  • Machine state, timestamp and data-quality definition
  • Security, resilience and ownership model
  • Pilot scope, acceptance tests and rollout gates

Result: A controlled pilot definition and machine data contract suitable for technical and commercial approval.

03

Suitable for

Conformal AI Opportunity and Risk Assessment

Manufacturers or OEMs considering vision, prediction, private assistants or intelligent machine features.

Included

  • Use-case value and feasibility review
  • Data, integration and operating-boundary assessment
  • Human oversight, fallback and monitoring requirements
  • Proof-of-concept and evaluation plan

Result: A decision-ready proposal showing where AI can add value, what must remain deterministic and how the pilot will be judged.

04

Suitable for

Automation Compliance Evidence Review

OEMs that need clearer traceability between requirements, design, software changes and acceptance evidence.

Included

  • Applicable-requirements and responsibility workshop
  • Technical-file and evidence-gap review
  • Software, cybersecurity, validation and change-control assessment
  • Prioritised evidence and remediation plan

Result: An evidence matrix and action register for the responsible manufacturer and appointed specialists.

05

Suitable for

Virtual Commissioning and Acceptance-Test Sprint

Complex sequences, repeat machines or controls changes with limited onsite proving time.

Included

  • Critical sequence and failure-path selection
  • Simulation or test-harness architecture
  • Traceable regression and acceptance cases
  • Defect, exception and residual-risk report

Result: A repeatable test baseline that exposes control problems before production or site commissioning.

06

Suitable for

OEM Controls Work Package Definition

Machine manufacturers that need a complete package or specialist capacity around an internal team.

Included

  • Requirements, interfaces and responsibility matrix
  • Electrical, software, motion and integration scope
  • Review, FAT/SAT, handover and support gates
  • Commercially separable work-package definition

Result: A quotation-ready scope with ownership, deliverables and acceptance boundaries made explicit.

What every assessment includes

A bounded scope and evidence-led conclusion

Assumptions, access, exclusions, evidence reviewed, findings and recommended actions are made visible. Any later implementation remains a separate approval decision.

  • Named engineering objective and decision owner
  • Information and access requirements
  • Findings ranked by technical and operational significance
  • Explicit unknowns, dependencies and residual risks
  • Recommended next work packages and acceptance gates