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Sound familiar?
You're not alone.

Sound familiar? You're not alone.

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Report rising complexity

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Struggle to meet requirements

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Miss launch deadlines

Our customers who made a change

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Monday morning doesn't wait

Manufacturing never stands still and neither do the pressures on it. More complexity, tighter margins, a workforce harder to find and harder to hold on to. The pressure to digitise, decarbonise, and modernise has never been higher, all while the factory floor has to keep running. That's one of the hardest change challenges there is. At Emixa, we help you craft this change and go hands-on where others hand off.
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Digital thread

The gap between ambition and the factory floor

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While everybody talks about AI, digital twinning, and Industry 5.0 and beyond, the reality is that most manufacturers sit somewhere between Industry 1.0 and 5.0. Disciplines are standardised, digital systems are in place, and the first steps are being made towards smarter integrations. But somewhere between the plan and the production floor, the digital thread breaks. Engineering works from one version of the data. Manufacturing from another.
 
It's a structural problem that shows up no matter where you are in your digital journey. From operations still running on spreadsheets and tribal knowledge, to organisations trying to work with IoT. Each company has its own digital challenges, and we know where they tend to appear. We know where your digital thread breaks.

Where it halts

1.0 Initial
Ad-hoc and siloed

Data lives in disconnected files and spreadsheets. Knowledge is held by people, not systems.

2.0 Managed
Standardised in domain

Digital structure exists within teams, but handovers between them stay manual. The thread exists in parts, but doesn't run end-to-end.

3.0 Integrated
Connected digital thread

Engineering, production, and operations are connected, but the shop floor and field are still dark. Quality issues take days to trace back to their source.

4.0 Optimised
Closed-loop analytics

The Digital Thread is enriched with IoT, quality and service feedback. Closed-loop wins exist, but gains stay locked in pilots that never scale.

5.0 Transformed
Autonomous and AI-driven

The Digital Thread powers autonomous, data-driven operations. The challenge shifts from operations to business model: partner data, new commercial models, and talent that can keep pace.

gap assessments

Change needs makers

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To help you find your footing in the digital thread, we developed focused gap assessments: a scan for each transition in the journey from Industry 1.0 to 5.0. Each scan is designed to show you precisely where you stand today, where the gaps are, and what it would take to move to the next level. Not a generic assessment, but a structured look at the specific handovers, data flows, and capability gaps that determine where progress stalls or holds. You walk away with a clear picture and a prioritised plan.
 
To bring you further, we bring a committed team that works alongside yours. From understanding where you are today to building what's needed tomorrow. At Emixa, we understand you don’t need slides for that. You need makers and doers, teams who craft change with you. We bring end-to-end ownership to the seams where transformation most often breaks, staying until change actually works and your teams truly own it. We help you face Monday morning with confidence and keep moving forward.
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Manufacturing sub-industries we serve

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Industrial machinery & heavy equipment

In industrial machinery, product complexity and time-to-market pressure rarely ease up. We work with heavy equipment manufacturers to connect PLM processes across engineering, production, and supply chain. We help to improve efficiency, quality, visibility, and shorten the gap between design intent and what gets built.

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Medical devices & pharmaceuticals

In the highly regulated medical and pharmaceutical industry, managing complex product lifecycles is crucial. We work with medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers to manage product development from concept through to compliance, supporting regulatory requirements such as FDA standards, while keeping quality and traceability intact across the full lifecycle.

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Aerospace & defence

Aerospace and defence programmes are long, complex, and unforgiving of data inconsistency. We help organisations manage product lifecycles where engineering changes, configuration control, and compliance aren't optional. They're the work. We help them develop cutting-edge systems to meet the highest performance standards. 

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Consumer packaged goods

In the fast-paced consumer packaged goods industry, managing complex product lifecycles is crucial. We help teams connect product development, supply chain planning, and operations so they can respond to market changes quick.

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Automotive & transportation

Vehicle programmes involve more software, more variants, and more stakeholders than they did ten years ago. We help automotive and transportation manufacturers manage that complexity, from PLM integration through to production planning, so engineering decisions reach the shop floor accurately and on time.

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Electronics & semiconductors

Speed to market matters more in electronics than almost anywhere else. We help electronics and semiconductor manufacturers with our pre-configured Digital Enterprise Solutions. We help to reduce time-to-market and costs, while boosting innovation, collaboration, quality, and profits, and ensuring compliance with industry standards.

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Marine

Competitiveness in the marine industry hinges on the ability to master complex design and manufacturing risks. We help marine manufacturers and shipyards manage complex design and production data across extended programmes, reducing development cycle times and keeping projects on budget and within regulatory requirements.

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CLIENT SPOTLIGHT

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Cerca

Cerca Magnetics designs and manufactures quantum-enabled instruments for human brain imaging, specifically a magnetoencephalography (MEG) system that measures brain activity by detecting magnetic fields generated by neural currents.

66% DESIGN TIME REDUCED
MasterMover 3

Formed in 1997, MasterMover set out to provide a retail industry solution for moving multiple cages around supermarkets. It developed a unit that removed the effort and danger associated with moving wheeled loads by using a leveraged weight transfer system and a powerful electric motor.

9x EXPORT GROWTH
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Meijer Potato is a leading global potato breeder, specialising in developing new potato varieties for chips, french fries, and other food products. The company follows multi-year cycles to design, breed, and license varieties that align with current and future market trends.

Winner OF THE 2023 BOOMI EMEA INNOVATION AWARD
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Frequently Asked Questions

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The digital thread is the connected flow of data across your operation. From engineering and production through to the shop floor and field. When it breaks, teams work from different versions of the same information, quality issues take days to surface, and progress stalls at every handover. For most manufacturers, closing that thread is the difference between change that lands and change that stays on paper.

Most organisations have a rough sense of where they stand, but the detail matters. Being "somewhere around 3.0" can mean very different things depending on which handovers are working and where ownership breaks down. That's what our gap assessments are designed to find out with a prioritised plan as the output. 

No. Waiting until everything is perfectly defined is one of the most common reasons progress stalls. We're built to create early traction, clarify decisions fast, and build momentum before the full picture is clear. 

We don't hand over a report and step away. The same team that assesses the gap helps you close it, through build, go-live, and into day-to-day operations.

We have deep experience across Siemens PLM, SAP ERP, Mendix low-code, and Boomi integration. These are the platforms where manufacturing transformations most often connect and most often break. Working across all four means we can close the gaps between them, not just within them.