Module or assembly based,
part or full machine build outsourcing solutions

Do things better and faster, with less risk.

Focus on what you do best and outsource your non-core competencies to a trusted manufacturing partner.

Combine production capabilities. Create the optimum solution.

Through a combination of extensive engineering and production capabilities, PP C&A design an outsourcing solution that delivers based on your very specific requirements.

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Focus on core competencies

PP Control & Automation is an award-winning provider of strategic outsourcing solutions to many of the most successful and respected machine builders worldwide.

The PP C&A approach to manufacturing starts with understanding your business pain. This pain is often a constraint to further growth. Commonly, they are centred around people and space, or production lead times and supply chain management. PP C&A alleviate these constraints by building relationships, strategies and manufacturing solutions that help you focus on your core competencies and comfortably and confidently leave the rest in safe hands.

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Case studies

The outsourcing strategies devised by PP C&A are helping machine builders and OEMs maximise manufacturing output, reduce lead times and time to market, mitigate risk, adapt to peaks and troughs in demand, improve cash flow, and optimise supply chains.

These case studies provide evidence-based stories of true manufacturing collaboration, benefit, and growth.

P2i

Unique technology born in the heart of Oxfordshire is helping protect millions of electronic devices across the world and its impact is set to grow even further over the next eighteen months.

Inventor-e iVendScale+

The way companies access inventory management is changing rapidly and leading the charge is Solihull-based Inventor-e.

Hedinn

PP Control & Automation and Hedinn are now engaged in their 13th project together and the largest yet, the construction of a new plant for Sildarvinnslan.

Needham Group (Interactive)

Play an interactive video with hotpoints that delve into the story behind the manufacturing partnership with Needham Group and the assembly of its N-Lase range of products.

Winbro Group Technologies

A strategic manufacturing outsourcing partnership – built on trust, integrity and maximising each other’s production expertise – is celebrating ten years together with the launch of the world’s most productive EDM drilling machine.

Collected customer case studies (2021)

This collection of case studies examines some of the recent strategic outsourcing partnerships delivering against several business pains for machine builders and OEMs, and how those partners are benefiting from the PP C&A approach.

Needham Group

Turning to the strategic manufacturing outsourcing expertise of PP Control & Automation could prove to be a pivotal decision for Needham Group as it aims to turn a £30m expansion blueprint into reality.

Inventor-e iVendScale/iBinScale

Inventor-e is accelerating disruption of inventory management with the help of the Manufacturing Assembly Network, a unique collective of sub-contract manufacturers and a world class engineering design consultancy.

Jenton Group

A new manufacturing partnership between PP Control & Automation and Jenton Group has created the capacity to build new UV technology in volumes that could help protect us from Covid-19 in indoor spaces.

Mazak UK

As the years have gone by, the relationship between the two businesses has become more interlinked, with PP C&A increasingly being asked to be involved in the design stage of new machine builds.

Pragmatically adaptive strategy is underway | Part 2: Seizing new ground

In the second of a series of responses to Make UK’s Executive Survey, PP Control & Automation’s Richard Spears reveals that manufacturers need to establish new trust in marketers, and marketers need to become more than simply the communications department to succeed with diversification.

ESG committee established and credentials recognised

As part of its ongoing commitment to responsible and sustainable business practices, PP C&A has officially established an ESG Committee and has been recognised for its Societal Impact.

Express & Star exclusive: If we make the right decisions, why shouldn’t we be optimistic?

​In a candid interview with the Express & Star, Tony Hague, CEO of PP Control & Automation, offers a compelling perspective on the future of UK manufacturing. Whilst acknowledging the sector’s recent challenges – marked by post-COVID supply chain disruptions and a general sense of sluggishness, Tony remains optimistic about …

Made In Group facility tour highlights how progressive culture, training and collaboration is at the heart of PP Control & Automation’s growth

Last week, PP Control & Automation welcomed 50 visitors, all representing manufacturing businesses within the Made In Group. Alongside a comprehensive facility tour hosted by Mark Johnson (Engineering Manager), they were presented with ‘best practice’ approaches in culture, training & development, and collaboration by Malcolm Condon (HR People Partner), Scott …

UK manufacturing’s era of ‘pragmatically adaptive’ strategy is underway

Tony Hague, CEO of PP Control & Automation (PP C&A), responds to recent survey data from Make UK, in the first of three opinion pieces. In this opening account, he explores the power of collaboration in building robust supply chains. Later in the three-part series, Richard Spears, Marketing Manager will …

Webinar: Blueprint for Better Collaboration

In association with Manufacturing Management, PP Control & Automation’s Tony Hague and Richard Spears discuss their blueprint for better collaboration, which has helped accelerate growth, champion the mission to keep manufacturing of green, clean and climate technologies onshore, and help promote engineering to the next generation of talent.

PP C&A enjoys extra coating with P2i deal extension

A coating technology specialist that protects millions of electronic devices every year has extended its manufacturing outsourcing partnership with PP C&A.

CESPA launch set to fuel the UK’s clean energy systems capability

The Clean Energy Systems Partner Alliance (CESPA) has been formed to boost onshoring manufacturing with six experts in their respective fields coming together to deliver a single source solution for innovators and developers of green tech technology.

Tony Hague responds to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ speech

In her speech on January 29, 2025, Chancellor Rachel Reeves outlined the UK government’s strategy to stimulate economic growth.

UL508A: Solutions for future readiness

Stefano Muraro of Rockwell Automation explores specific evolutions of UL508A standards and the impact on industrial control panels, highlighting innovative, sustainable solutions.

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