Capabilities
Vehicle design and manufacture, machine design, robotics integration, simulation, autonomy, software and service. All seven sit inside one organisation, so the same team specifies a programme, builds it, commissions it and supports it in service, and answers for all of it.
Services
Design
We design custom machines and complete industrial systems for requirements that off-the-shelf equipment does not meet. Work starts at concept and carries through to a proven prototype.
Vehicles
The machines themselves: electric platform transporters built around a deck rather than around a cab. The powertrain, the autonomy and the operator interface are developed as one system, and what the machine is on any given day is decided by what is fitted to the deck.
Robotics
We integrate robotic cells for handling, joining and machine-side work, matched to the process rather than to a catalogue. Cells are built around the part, the cycle and the operator who works next to them.
Simulation
Robotic cells and processes are simulated and validated in digital form before manufacturing begins. Reach, cycle, collision and layout questions are settled while they are still cheap to answer.
Autonomy
Autonomy is not the perception system; it is what the machine does correctly in the minutes after the perception system is uncertain. So it is treated as a system problem: powertrain, control, sensing, safety and the interface around them.
Software
Cluster ERP is our own modular enterprise software, built as the digital backbone of production and project operations, with the eBOM, MRP and MES at the centre of it and the project, procurement, quality and commercial modules around them. Beside it sits our human-computer interaction work: research into how people actually supervise machines, and what that means for the way a machine is designed.
Service
Installation is the start of the relationship, not the end of it. We provide long-term technical support, maintenance and consultancy for the systems we deliver.
Operating model
Our capabilities are organised in three layers rather than as a list of services. Each layer answers a different question: what the technology is, what it becomes for a sector, and how it is kept running.
Platform
The sector-independent foundation: electric powertrain, autonomous and unmanned operation, robotics and HCI design. It is developed once and hardened across every programme it carries, so a sector does not pay to solve problems another sector has already solved.
Programme
The layer where the foundation becomes a specific answer to a specific need: requirements analysis, design, manufacturing, integration and commissioning. The shape of the machine is decided by the environment it has to survive.
Fleet
A delivered system is measured by how much of the time it is available, so long-term service, maintenance and operational support sit behind every one of them.
Start with the requirement
Some of this work starts with an operational need and no drawing, and some of it starts with a drawing and a standard to meet. Both are welcome. Tell us the environment, the constraint and the outcome you need, or send the specification you already have, and we will tell you what it takes to build it.