Downtime, quality, throughput. Answered from the shop floor up.

Typical issues PE faces in manufacturing

Not the plant's problems. The four that land on the fund, and that we find in almost every manufacturer we open up.

1. 01

   You cannot compare two plants

   Each site defines downtime and scrap its own way, so group reporting is a reconciliation exercise and a bolt-on takes a year to land on the same basis as everything else.

2. 02

   Capital requests you cannot test

   The downtime behind the business case was categorised by whoever installed the SCADA. You are asked to fund a machine while the time is going to changeovers, and nothing in the pack shows it.

3. 03

   OT exposure that surfaces at the worst moment

   Flat networks and standing vendor access reach you through an insurance renewal, a customer audit, or the next buyer's diligence. Rarely before.

4. 04

   An estate that depends on one person

   Undocumented, unpriced at entry, and one resignation away from being the fund's problem rather than the plant's.

What it runs on

Six layers, and our engineers have configured systems in all of them on real lines. The names are what a plant actually has, not a wish list.

• Control and SCADA

  • Ignition
  • Rockwell FactoryTalk
  • Siemens WinCC
  • iFIX

• PLCs and devices

  • Allen-Bradley
  • Siemens S7
  • Beckhoff

• Historian and analytics

  • AVEVA PI System
  • Canary
  • Power BI

• ERP and MES

  • Microsoft Dynamics 365
  • SAP
  • Plex

• OT network and security

  • Fortinet
  • Cisco
  • Claroty

• Cloud and identity

  • Microsoft Azure
  • Entra ID
  • Microsoft 365

Third-party names are listed so you can see what we work in. They are the property of their respective owners and imply no endorsement.

Value creation

What we do across the hold, and where each one lands in the numbers a buyer checks.

• Availability out of data you own

  The historian is already collecting. Reading it properly moves throughput before any capital is committed.

• Licence and SaaS rationalisation

  A Microsoft licence audit, and the four tools three sites bought separately to do one job.

• One definition, every site

  Availability, scrap and OEE defined once across the group, so a bolt-on reports on day one rather than at the next year end.

• An estate the next buyer can verify

  Documented, segmented, correctly licensed. Your entry findings do not become his.

Neurotic AI Platform, on your plant

The same product every portfolio company gets, carrying the screens a plant opens and nobody else does. Asked in the words used on the floor.

The change is not a better monthly report. It is that the question gets asked on the day it matters, by the person who has it, without a request going to anyone. A shift lead can ask why line 3 stopped before the next shift starts, and the answer carries the systems it came out of.

AI intelligent dashboards

We build these quickly, and to your business: dashboards that let you see every line, every shift and every stoppage in one place, and compare plants that have never been comparable — with the alerts and notifications that go with them, so a number that moves finds you rather than waiting to be found.

• Line performance

  Output and availability by line and shift, read from the control layer rather than from a shift report.

• Downtime analysis

  Where the time actually went, by reason, so the improvement plan and the capital behind it point at the same thing.

• Quality and scrap

  Scrap by line, product and cause, so a bad run is a question that day rather than a variance at month end.

• Maintenance

  What is due, what is overdue, and what has failed twice.

• OT access

  Who reached the control network, from where, and whether that access still needs to exist.

These are the five a plant asks for first. The screens are built to the group, not chosen from a menu, so a dashboard you need and cannot find anywhere on this list is the ordinary case rather than a special one.