Time to market

Many companies continue to develop a product design that leads to unnecessary costs, requires an inflexible supply chain and suffers from inefficient manufacturing processes.

Therefore, PP C&A’s engineering, operations and supply chain are integrated at the earliest possible stage to help optimise a machine design that is efficient to manufacture and has parts readily available to ensure quicker time to market.

Time to market is a critical factor for many machine builders. The faster the machine development, production readiness and commercialisation, the faster that revenue stream can be accessed by the builder as part of the revenue growth strategy. Generating revenues sooner and getting your technology adopted, creates real competitive advantage.

For instance, once the target market has accepted that technology/solution – the more difficult it is for a competitor/alternative technology to enter that market space.

Gaining additional technical and manufacturing knowledge and skills, whilst ensuring awareness of the many technology platform options available through knowledge sharing are unique benefits to PP C&A’s outsourcing approach.

Having a strategic outsourcing partner will, without any doubt, accelerate the time to market challenge and deliver scalability from prototype stage through to production volumes.

Do you need more time and information before considering outsourcing?

You might be interested in the PP C&A 3D Process guide.

Take your first steps to realising growth potential by making outsourcing part of your manufacturing strategy. This guide details every stage of the outsourcing procedure.

We call it the 3D process: Discovery, Decision, Delivery.

PP Control & Automation aims to be top of the crops with £3m AgriTech ‘outsourcing’ opportunity

PP Control & Automation has launched a five-point mandate to explore a potential £multi-million opportunity in the AgriTech sector.

Strategic outsourcing: The 50/50 principle will put you at ease

To build a sense of security and make outsourcing trouble-free for machine builders and OEMs, an outsourcing partner like PP Control & Automation will take several measures.

£Multi-Million green opportunity for PP C&A as machine builders and ‘early disruptors’ target Net Zero gains

PP Control & Automation has started working on projects worth more than £2million in the last year alone, projects that are all involved in renewable energy, energy storage and building machines for electrification across a myriad of transport sectors.

The true value of winning the race to market

Time-to-market is a critical factor in the success of any product, and it is particularly important in the machine building industry. There are challenges to overcome though, before realising the true impact and the benefits of a short time-to-market practice.

Outsourcing is an enabling factor behind low-carbon economy demand

The energy industry is undergoing a rapid transformation, driven by the need to transition to a low-carbon economy. Machine builders have a crucial role to play and outsourcing is helping them keep pace.

The Engineer feature | Solving the recruitment puzzle

Tony Hague offers up an alternative and often undiscovered fix for the recruitment woes manufacturing is currently suffering from.

The act of letting go

Letting go is often the most challenging act for machine builders and OEMs to face as they embark on an outsourcing partnership. But the right partner should fill you with confidence.

Inventor-e targets £1m opportunity after signing PP C&A manufacturing deal

Transforming inventory management is paying off for Inventor-e after it signed its latest deal to scale-up production.

Hedinn fishing for efficiencies as PP C&A helps it deliver €11m deal

PP Control & Automation is celebrating a fifth birthday of supplying the fishing sector in style by supporting an €11m project.

Resilience: a book about breaking the cycle of supply chain disruption | Free download

This book details not just the supply chain disruption at play, but also the opportunity to break the cycle and take back control.

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This book collects a series of published content on the topic of supply chain disruption from leading voices at PP Control & Automation and the wider UK manufacturing community. It details not just the disruption at play, but also the opportunity to break the cycle and take back control. Together, we’ll come out the other side buoyant with greater resilience than ever before.

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There should always be a process of consideration when selecting the right outsourcing partner and understanding how that partner delivers against your requirements. That’s why PP C&A introduced the 3D process. It clearly defines the whole journey into three specific stages: Discovery, Decision, Delivery.

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This collection of case studies examines some of the recent strategic outsourcing partnerships delivering against several business pains for machine builders and OEMs. This guide collects case studies published during 2021.

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This guide highlights key technical supplier relationships covering a broad set of categories, from industrial design support and access to academia, and automation and legislation partnerships, to packing and shipping finished goods, all designed to add sought after value to customers.

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As a manufacturer of machinery, how confident are you that you are meeting the legal and technical requirements of the US and North American markets? Confusion in respect to UL508A and NFPA standards can be extremely costly.

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Growth enabling benefits

outsourcing case studies

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 Case Study)

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.

Ishida (Video Case Study)

Watch how Ishida realised their growth potential by making outsourcing part of their manufacturing strategy.

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