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Capabilities

Five connected areas covering the full arc of a manufacturing transformation — from the first walk of the floor to the day the tenth plant goes live. Delivered by one team, so nothing is lost in a handoff.

The straight answer

What exactly does OrbitX do?

OrbitX is a manufacturing digital transformation partner that both advises and builds. We audit operations and design the roadmap; we digitise every function on the shop floor; we connect machines and integrate enterprise systems; we build custom software where no product fits; and we stay through adoption, support and multi-site rollout. We are platform-independent — we implement proven manufacturing platforms where they fit and build bespoke where they don't.

Scope

Everything a factory operating system does — and the work platform vendors can't do.

A digital factory operating system digitises workflows, connects machines, automates escalations and reports. That is real and valuable, and we deliver all of it. But it is one layer of a transformation, and it is the only layer a licence business can sell you.

What we add on top
  • Operations consulting before digitisation — fixing the process first, so you don't automate a broken one
  • Independent technology selection — including the recommendation not to buy
  • Custom engineering beyond any product's scope — planning tools, portals, bespoke analytics
  • Enterprise integration across the whole estate, not just one platform's connectors
  • Adoption and change management as a designed workstream, not a training week
  • Recovery of stalled implementations — including ones we didn't start
  • Organisation and growth strategy around the technology decision
The Five Areas

How the capability areas connect.

Sequenced the way a real programme runs. Most clients start at C01 and move right — but each area is a standalone engagement if that's what you need.

C01 — DIAGNOSE

Operations & Transformation Consulting

We find out what's actually wrong before anyone writes code. Operations and process audit, digital maturity assessment, costed transformation roadmap, independent technology selection, build-vs-buy analysis, and the organisation strategy around it.

  • Operations & process audit
  • OEE and loss analysis
  • Digital maturity assessment
  • Transformation roadmap & business case
  • Software strategy and vendor evaluation
  • Organisation growth & operating model
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C02 — DIGITISE

Shop Floor Digitisation

The core build. Ten operating functions digitised into one connected layer with a single operational record underneath — whether that runs on a platform we implement for you or software we build.

  • Production, OEE & downtime
  • Quality, deviations & CAPA
  • Maintenance & reliability
  • Safety, permits & EHS
  • Utilities, energy & ESG
  • Traceability, supply chain, suppliers, workforce, control tower
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C03 — CONNECT

Machine Connectivity & Integration

Getting data off the machines — including the old ones vendors say can't be connected — and getting the floor talking to the systems the business already runs on.

  • PLC, SCADA and OPC-UA integration
  • Edge gateways and retrofit sensing
  • Protocol normalisation
  • ERP, MES and QMS integration
  • Middleware and API layer design
  • Master data alignment
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C04 — BUILD

Custom Software, Data & AI

For everything that doesn't come in a box. Bespoke applications for your specific process, a unified data platform underneath, and analytics or predictive models where the data genuinely supports them.

  • Bespoke operational applications
  • Operator and supervisor interfaces
  • Planning and scheduling tools
  • Unified data platform
  • Dashboards and reporting
  • Predictive maintenance and quality models
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C05 — SUSTAIN

Adoption, Support & Scale

The part that decides whether any of the above was worth doing. Operator and supervisor training, daily management routine redesign, proof that the numbers moved, ongoing support, and the rollout playbook that gets you past the first plant.

  • Adoption diagnostics and change management
  • Operator and supervisor training
  • Daily management routine redesign
  • Benefit realisation tracking
  • Managed support and enhancements
  • Multi-site rollout programme
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Engagements

How to start.

Five ways in, sized to where you are. Most relationships begin with the first one.

EngagementWhat it isDurationBest when
Connected Floor Audit
Start here
On-site operations and data-flow mapping, system landscape review, quantified gap analysis, and a sequenced roadmap with build-vs-buy calls and costs. Yours to keep.2–4 weeksYou know something is wrong but not what to fix first.
Transformation Health Check
Recovery
Diagnostic on a stalled or underperforming programme — why it stalled, what's salvageable, what finishing it would take.1–2 weeksYou already spent money and got a system nobody uses.
Line Pilot
Proof
One line, one plant, fully instrumented and digitised end to end, with a measured before and after.6–10 weeksYou need internal proof before committing to a full programme.
Connected Floor ProgrammeFull multi-function digitisation across the plant, with connectivity, integration, adoption and support.4–12 monthsThe roadmap is agreed and you're ready to execute.
Orbit CareOngoing support, monitoring, enhancements and rollout assistance.AnnualYou're live and want it to keep improving rather than decay.
Why the audit is paid

A free assessment attracts tyre-kickers and signals that the thinking has no value. A fixed-fee audit qualifies honestly, establishes that our diagnosis is the product, and lets you experience the working relationship before committing to a build. If you take the roadmap to another firm, that's a legitimate outcome — and it happens.

Start Here

Start with the audit, not the software.

A fixed-scope engagement. We walk your floor, map where data breaks down, and hand you a costed roadmap — whether or not you build any of it with us.