About
Your automation
engineering team.
Toronto-based, engineering-led, working with manufacturers who have no in-house automation department.
What we solve
You do not need to build an automation department to automate.
- /Rising labour costs
- /Hiring and retention on the production floor
- /Repetitive manual processes
- /Inconsistent productivity or quality
- /No in-house automation department
- /Processes off-the-shelf equipment cannot handle
Who we serve
Small and mid-sized manufacturers modernizing one process at a time.
- /Repetitive manual processes
- /Rising labour cost or worker shortage
- /No internal automation department
- /Unique processes needing custom solutions
- /Incremental modernization
- /Automation expected to show measurable value
Leadership
Richard Zhou
Founder & Technical Director
Decades in automation controls, robotics and industrial systems engineering, beginning with graduate study in automation control and robotics at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Since moving to Canada in 1999 he has worked across steel, automotive manufacturing, PLC controls, robotics and machine integration, operating an Ontario automation design business since 2008 and teaching industrial automation for more than a decade.
“Automation should solve a real problem and create real value.”
Andy Zhou
Co-Founder & Business Development
Nanotechnology Engineering (five-year co-op) at the University of Waterloo, followed by graduate study in Materials Science at the University of Toronto.
Leads business development, customer engagement and partnerships — translating engineering capability into a practical business case.
How we work
Discover → Analyze → Design → Validate → Integrate → Deliver → Support
- 01 / Discover
Understand the real process
- 02 / Analyze
Separate the automatable tasks
- 03 / Design
Design for utilization
- 04 / Validate
Validate before committing
- 05 / Integrate
Build it as one system
- 06 / Deliver
Commission in production
- 07 / Support
Support and extend
Engineering network
A focused core team supported by an established network of specialists, assembled per project.
The right expertise, per project.