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.
Through a combination of extensive engineering and production capabilities, PP C&A design an outsourcing solution that delivers based on your very specific requirements.
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.
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.
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.
The way companies access inventory management is changing rapidly and leading the charge is Solihull-based Inventor-e.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
The fourth industrial revolution has a new engine and manufacturing is on the cusp of its most transformative era since the invention of the assembly line.
To highlight the ESG imperative and real-world success cases, PP Control & Automation (PP C&A) in collaboration with Schneider Electric, will be hosting manufacturing professionals at its award-winning facility in Cheslyn Hay on 17th September 2025.
On 23 June 2025, the UK government unveiled a landmark ten‑year Industrial Strategy designed to drive sustainable economic growth, boost investment, and create over 1.1 million skilled jobs.
There is no escaping the current economic challenges piling up for UK manufacturers, and alongside long-fought growing pains, there’s a heightened need for positive action according to the seven SMEs and industrial design house collaborating under the Manufacturing Assembly Network (MAN Group) banner.
Andy Whittaker, Director (General Manager) at PP Control & Automation, responds to the findings of the Make UK Executive Survey by addressing productivity in the current climate of rising operational and employment costs. This marks the final piece in a three-part series.
One of the UK’s leading strategic manufacturing outsourcing specialists has thrown its support behind a Shropshire school vying for national honours.
Recent history has been defined by turbulence and supply chains have become the front line of disruption. These shocks have acted as both a warning and a wake-up call.
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.
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.
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 …
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