Machines, people and processes generate signal all day. It is lost in spreadsheets, in disconnected systems, and in knowledge that leaves the site at shift change. OrbitX diagnoses where your operations lose visibility, then builds and implements the systems that close the gap — consulting and engineering under one roof.
Manufacturers don't fail at transformation because the software doesn't exist. They fail because a consultancy hands over a roadmap, a vendor hands over a licence, and nobody owns the outcome on the floor. The result has a name: pilot purgatory.
A dashboard performs on one line, in one plant. Executive sponsorship then moves elsewhere, the allocated budget closes, and the deployment does not reach the remaining sites. Scale-up, rather than the pilot itself, is where most programmes stop.
Strategy firms write the plan. Software vendors build to spec. Neither owns whether it works on the floor — and the gap between the deck and the deployment is where the value evaporates.
Technically flawless software, rejected by the people expected to run it. Adoption isn't a training problem you solve at the end — it's a design constraint you solve from day one.
Every platform vendor in this market has to recommend their own product. That is what a licence business is. It means the diagnosis and the prescription arrive from the same commercial interest.
OrbitX is platform-independent. Where a proven manufacturing platform fits your operation, we implement and configure it — we hold partnerships across the market precisely so we're never forced into one answer. Where nothing on the market fits, we build it. Where the appropriate recommendation is a process change rather than software, we say so.
Our recommendation is based on your operation, not our licence revenue. It also means the scope of what we can deliver isn't capped by one product's roadmap — we cover everything a digital factory operating system does, plus the consulting, custom engineering and strategy work that platform vendors structurally cannot.
Five connected capability areas. Most firms sit on one side of the line — they advise, or they build. We're structured to do both, which is why our recommendations survive contact with the shop floor.
Operations audit, digital maturity assessment, costed transformation roadmap, technology selection, build-vs-buy calls, and organisation strategy.
Explore → C02Ten operating functions digitised into one connected layer — production, quality, maintenance, safety, utilities, traceability, supply chain, suppliers, workforce and control tower.
Explore → C03PLCs, SCADA, sensors, meters and edge gateways connected and normalised — then integrated into ERP, MES and QMS so plans and actuals finally reconcile.
Explore → C04Where no platform fits: bespoke applications, unified data platforms, analytics, predictive models and the integrations that hold the estate together.
Explore → C05Operator training, daily management redesign, benefit tracking, managed support, and the rollout playbook that gets you past the first plant.
Explore → ALLHow the five areas connect, which engagement fits where you are, and what we deliver that platform vendors don't.
All capabilities →Your plant already runs production, quality, maintenance, safety, stores and utilities. The problem is that each one keeps its own version of the truth. We put all ten in orbit around a single operational core — then connect that core to the systems your business already runs on.
We don't hand off between diagnosis and delivery, because that handoff is exactly where transformation programmes die. The same team that finds the problem builds the fix and stays until the floor is using it.
We spend time on your floor and inside your systems. We map how work actually happens versus how the SOP says it does, and identify every point where data stops moving.
What to fix first, what to build versus configure versus buy, what it costs, and what each phase returns. Prioritised by impact, not by what's easiest to sell you.
Machine connectivity, a unified data layer, and digitised workflows across every function — connected into your existing ERP and MES rather than replacing them.
Go-live is the midpoint. We train supervisors and operators, tune against real usage, prove the numbers moved, and stay on as your operation changes.
No handoff between the firm that diagnoses and the firm that builds. We're accountable for the outcome, not the deliverable — which changes what we recommend, because we're the ones who have to make it work.
We don't own a platform, so we're not defending one. We implement what fits, build what doesn't exist, and tell you honestly when the answer is neither.
Our team comes from manufacturing operations, digital transformation programmes, and software engineering. We've stood on the floor and shipped production systems.
We integrate with your existing ERP and MES rather than asking you to rip and replace. Lower risk, faster payback, no eighteen-month migration before a number moves.
Published third-party research, not our own estimates. Each figure below is attributed to its source.
Increase in the cost of unplanned downtime between 2019–20 and 2024, even as total downtime hours fell 31%
SIEMENS, THE TRUE COST OF DOWNTIME, 2024Of unplanned downtime is attributed to equipment failure, ahead of human error at 23%
SIEMENS, THE TRUE COST OF DOWNTIME, 2024Of digital transformations met their stated objectives in a study of 800 senior executives
BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP, 2020Of annual turnover lost to unplanned downtime across the Fortune Global 500, up from 8% in 2019–20
SIEMENS, THE TRUE COST OF DOWNTIME, 2024A 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.