Industry
Technology for plants, from people who have run plant IT.
Manufacturing is our lead industry. Our founders have run these environments, not just advised on them.
Where the experience comes from
Sub-sectors the founders worked in before Pinaque
- Electronics manufacturing
- Tyres and automotive
- Metals and aluminium
- Optical fibre
This is the founders’ own experience, not a list of Pinaque clients. Pinaque is a new company. Read the founders’ experience before Pinaque.
What it means for you: we plan around production, not around IT. We know that a line cannot stop for a patch, that machines outlive their software, and that plant engineering and IT often disagree about who owns what.
Plant foundations
Twelve foundations, in the order they are usually tackled.
Each step makes the next one cheaper and safer. Few plants need all twelve at once.
Plant asset discovery
You cannot secure what is not on a list.
Network segmentation between office and plant networks
Contains the damage from ransomware.
Industrial wireless
For mobile operators, guided vehicles and handheld traceability.
Machine connectivity and retrofits
Data from machines that predate any digital interface.
A single plant data layer
Ends integration sprawl.
Manufacturing execution system: selection, rollout, stabilisation and standardisation
Comparable metrics across plants.
Traceability with barcodes and radio-frequency tags
For recall containment, warranty defence and customer audits.
Computing at the plant edge
For vision and control workloads that cannot wait.
Paperless floor and digital escalation
Real-time alerts, and no shift-log paperwork.
Power and physical resilience
Often the cheapest downtime fix available.
Clear ownership between plant engineering and IT
Every system has one named owner.
Plant recovery and continuity
A recovery time production can actually absorb.
AI on the shop floor
Sixteen uses, each with the measure it moves.
We name the measure, not a number. What it is worth in your plant depends on your data, and we work that out with you before building. Where AI recommends a change to a process or a schedule, a person approves it before it is applied.
Vision-based quality inspection
Moves: defect escapes, inspection time, rework.
Predictive maintenance
Moves: unplanned downtime, maintenance cost.
Automated equipment-effectiveness and loss reporting
Moves: reporting lag.
Demand forecasting and planning
Moves: forecast accuracy, inventory, expediting.
Process parameter optimisation
Moves: first-pass yield, scrap.
Energy optimisation
Moves: energy cost per unit, peak charges.
Changeover assistance
Moves: changeover time.
Assisted shift handover
Moves: supervisor admin time, information lost between shifts.
Maintenance assistant over standard procedures
Moves: repair time, repeat failures.
Supplier quality triage
Moves: incoming rejections.
Vision-based safety-gear compliance
Moves: near-miss capture.
Spare parts optimisation
Moves: carrying cost, stockouts on critical spares.
Document automation
Moves: manual entry of goods receipts, invoices and transport documents.
Non-conformance and corrective-action follow-up
Moves: closure time, recurrence.
Capturing experienced engineers’ knowledge
Moves: new-engineer ramp time.
Production scheduling
Moves: throughput, on-time delivery, work in progress.
Plant security
Office security does not cover the plant.
Control systems were built to run for decades, not to be patched every month. Securing them takes a different approach from securing laptops and email.
Ways to start
Start with one plant, one system or one process.
Matching entry offer
Security & Governance Review
1–2 weeks, fixed scopeYou get: A risk register, your top gaps, a prioritised fix plan and a leadership briefing. Quoted after the first call. The written outputs are yours.
Matching entry offer
AI & Automation Opportunity Review
1–2 weeks, fixed scopeYou get: A workflow list, a feasibility view, one recommended pilot and how return on investment will be measured. Quoted after the first call. The written outputs are yours.
Matching entry offer
Cloud & Infrastructure Readiness Review
1 week, fixed scopeYou get: Your current state, the gaps, and migration or modernisation priorities. Quoted after the first call. The written outputs are yours.
Talk to someone who has stood on a shop floor.
Thirty minutes. Tell us what is in front of you and we will say plainly where we would start.