This article showcases our top picks for the best London based Industrial Automation companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Industrial Automation industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top London Industrial Automation Companies
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GFG Alliance
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GFG Alliance, the international industrial, energy, natural resources and financial services group. GFG Alliance is an international group of businesses, founded and owned by the British Gupta Family.
It combines some of the world’s leading industrial, natural and financial resources, working together towards the delivery of a common industrial strategy. The Alliance’s ‘end-to-end’ business model encompasses mining, energy generation, metals and engineering, underpinned by industry-friendly financial services, a substantial property investment portfolio and a skills & education-focused charitable foundation..
Softomotive
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Softomotive is one of the leading worldwide providers of Robotic Process Automation solutions, trusted by more than 7,000 companies worldwide. Both attended and unattended RPA are delivered through powerful, robust RPA technology from desktop installation to server based software which is quick to deploy, easy to use and provides best value for money.
· WinAutomation is the world’s best Robotic desktop automation (RDA) tool and provides a powerful, robust and easy to use Windows based platform for building software robots. · ProcessRobot is a leading enterprise RPA platform, including enterprise grade security and controls, with links to best-of-breed AI technologies.
The company offers the most reliable and scalable automation solutions, bridging the gap between best-of-breed technology and continuous innovation to deliver true business transformation. It provides a powerful automation platform that enables organizations to develop, manage and track their own digital workforce.
Synthace
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Synthace’s goal is to raise universal bioscience productivity, enabling people to better engineer biology for health, food, energy and manufacturing. Central to its technology is Antha, an operating system for biology that enables ease of designing and optimizing biological unit operations that are linked into executable workflows that are reliable, shareable and saleable.
Antha spreads biological information in a repeatable way, linking lab equipment, protocols and processes, thereby allowing vast and speedy development, enhancing productivity for any bioscience.. .
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Automata
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Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company’s product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom.
People don’t need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. The web-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.
Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.. .
Ori Biotech
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Ori Biotech is a developer of a manufacturing platform used to help patients get access to lifesaving treatments. Ori has developed a proprietary, flexible manufacturing platform that closes, automates, and standardizes manufacturing allowing therapeutics developers to further develop and bring their products from pre-clinical process development to commercial-scale manufacturing.
The company aims to speed up the innovation of cell and gene therapies through the manufacturing platform it is bringing to market.. .
Finboot
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Finboot is the dynamic company behind MARCO, a unique blockchain agnostic, enterprise grade SaaS product. MARCO allows enterprises to easily access and use blockchain technologies within their organizations value and supply chains.
MARCO can be deployed by a wide range of sectors, including Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Consumer goods, Automotive, Travel and tourism, and Healthcare. Blockchain is the technology behind a distributed network of computers that can be used to store data securely but which, uniquely has a single memory.
That means data cannot be copied to sell the same asset again. It’s why blockchain technologists refer to as the “trust platform”.
Blockchain will change how businesses operate for years to come, with exponential benefits to those businesses who adopt it. Established in 2016 with operations in London and Barcelona, Finboot has established itself as a leader in the fast-growing enterprise blockchain industry.
Finboot has demonstrated the capacity of MARCO to allow enterprises to rapidly experiment and validate their blockchain business cases and efficiently move them to production. From its ability to minimize complexities, to providing exceptional privacy and security to users, MARCO reduces cost and accelerates interactions to help businesses grow faster and more efficiently.
Within corporate structures, there are many examples of how MARCO can be applied to dramatically improve frictions within physical and financial operations. Traceability and quality control in the downstream of Oil & Gas, certified environmental sustainability of ready-made garments, and invoice reconciliation in airport logistics are some of the business cases successfully implemented with MARCO..
MOV.AI
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MOV.AI is a startup that provides an operating system for autonomous intelligent collaborative robots for universal commercial use. Their solution provides an industry-grade, ROS compatible O/S that enables easy mapping, robust, affordable and autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance as well as a modern end-user interface which facilitates easy customization to make autonomous robots a commercial reality.
By Supporting cloud-based software-distribution and complying with cyber-security’s best practices, their solution provides the brains for making mobile machines operate autonomously.. .
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Flexciton
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Flexciton is building the world’s most powerful production planning and scheduling software for manufacturing using A.I. and advanced optimisation algorithms.
Their mission is to become THE artificial intelligence company for manufacturing and help every plant in the world increase their efficiency through A.I. Their solution is transforming the way the largest companies in the world make their products, and they were recently voted one of the world’s most disruptive companies on the 2018 Disrupt 100 list: https://bit.ly/2L5y3q6 Despite being an early stage startup, they are already working with some of the most well known manufacturers in the world! Their team is pushing the boundaries of data science and optimisation, to create a revolutionary A.I.
solution that manufacturers can use to save millions of pounds in operational costs and efficiency improvements. They are backed by some of the world’s most renowned investors and are disrupting a multi-billion dollar market..
Hanhaa
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Hanhaa GenX is comprised of two entities. HXG: ——– HXG enables the cost-effective deployment of private high performance LTE and 4G/5G wireless networks.
– HXG supports connectivity globally with 200+ countries and 700+ networks. – Businesses who set up their own HXG 5G network open the door to comprehensive, wireless networking of production, maintenance and logistics.
HXG enables the deployment of on-campus private 4G/5G networks with the ability to allow users to roam on to public networks when off campus. – HXG enables businesses to become the ISP’s to their own remote employees.
Enterprise optimized wireless ISP access with one hop between remote user to employer. ParceLive: —————- Real-time cargo tracking and monitoring solution – a global leader in IoT tracking.
– ParceLive, is a real-time, multimodal cargo tracking platform that connects users to live information about the location, condition and security of their assets regardless of their country, carrier or scale. – 7 Intelligent built-in sensors.
– ParceLive has an E-ink display embedded in each tracker along with an international returns postal license on each trackers packaging. This ensures that after use the receiver of a shipment simply removes the tracker and places it into a mailbox where it is returned to Hanhaa for charging and re-use without the need for stamps or packaging.
Unmanned Life
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Unmanned Life is the leading software platform for seamless orchestration of autonomous robotics. It is changing the way autonomous robotics is being deployed by large corporations thanks to its autonomy-as-a-service orchestration platform.
Unmanned Life software platform is capable of integrating different technologies, such as AI, 5G and Edge computing with multiple robots such as drones and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and variety of capabilities to enable autonomous operations across multiple industries, in particular Industry 4.0 and Smart Cities. .
Ascalia
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Ascalia helps industry and cities easily implement Industry 4.0 concepts with its AI and edge-computing based solution.
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Prognostic
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Prognostic is an Industry4.0 risk management platform for physical assets
Sonodot Ltd
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Sonodot is a plug-and-play and high-performance indoor location intelligence platform for warehousing and factory automation. Sonodot develops state-of-the-art indoor tracking technology that continually monitors the movements of material handling vehicles (for example forklifts) wherever they are in a factory.
The Sonodot platform then reports this data to managers, allowing them to make better decisions around safety, human labour and fleet utilisation.. .
New Motion Labs
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New Motion Labs is a driven collection of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs, dedicated to developing and licensing revolutionary designs for Mechanical Engineering. Nearly every mechanical component will contain a gear, belt or roller-chain drive.
They all have one thing in common. They transfer power on one side of the tooth, and we refer to this as ‘single engagement.’ From the roller chain drives on bikes and e-bikes, to belt drives on conveyors and gear drives in transmissions.
This method of engagement leads to shortcomings for each technology. Our first technology, DUAL ENGAGEMENT™ is a revolutionary method of transferring power on both sides of the sprocket tooth, leading to many advantages over roller-chains, increasing efficiency, strength and lifetime at smaller weights and sizes.
Our technology enables a more efficient, more sustainable world, with smaller, lighter products with greater lifetimes.. .
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ZOA Robotics
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ZOA is a startup based in London (UK) developing highly mobile legged robots. They are a small, ambitious, talented team focused on shipping a revolutionary product.
They have built and proven prototypes and they are now growing their team with experienced full-time hire.. .
Fastnet Oil and Gas
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Fastnet is focused on the exploration of oil and gas resources in licence areas primarily under-explored by industry majors where potential for large oil and gas accumulations exist. The Company’s management team has significant industry experience and expertise to de-risk exploration assets to a stage where it can successfully bring in major partners for sustained value-creating drilling programmes.
Its immediate focus is on implementing its strategies in Morocco and in the Celtic Sea, offshore Ireland, where it has built up a diverse and exciting portfolio of assets.. .
Pirum Systems
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Pirum Systems was founded in June 2000 with the objective of providing advanced, centralised and secure reconciliation services for financial market participants. Pirum provides a secure processing hub which seamlessly links market participants together, allowing them to electronically process and verify key transaction details.
Financial Institutions from around the world have responded to Pirum’s creative approach by joining the secure on-line community. They have increased processing efficiency, reduced operational risk and improved profitability by using Pirum’s services to reduce manual processing.
By combining an in-depth understanding of both the Securities Finance industry and IT, Pirum has created a set of highly innovative and flexible services which are tailored to fully support the complexities of the underlying business processes. Integration with Pirum’s services could not be easier.
Data feeds are accepted in virtually any format, facilitating the re-use of existing data extracts. This flexibility results in a fast, straightforward and low cost implementation.
No additional hardware, software or proprietary network connections are required. Pirum servers perform all the necessary data processing and user access is provided via secure web pages over the Internet.
Pirum’s innovative designs and focus on customer service have led to multiple industry awards over the years, most recently winning the ISF 2017 Global Post Trade Service Provider of the Year award, and the following individual global categories:. .
Inspection2
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Inspection2 AI-powered asset management, data analytics and reporting application transforms large volumes of industrial inspection data into actionable information, improving asset utilisation and safety, easily integrating across enterprise. The team has been working to automate industrial inspection since 2012, solving deeply technical problems of enterprise customers across industries through a scalable and configurable application.
The software is built around the inspection workflow and allows to build up a picture of industrial asset condition over time in a highly structured asset database. With a high degree of automation using Artificial Intelligence, it supports the processing, filtering, analysis and measurement of image-oriented data sets and enables defect growth analysis and prediction or identification of common failure modes across the entire asset base.
The powerful 3D and Digital Twin visualisation provide at-a-glance asset management information that can be shared simply and quickly across multiple teams. The application enables critical decisions to be made and optimise asset management throughout their lifecycle.
Inspection² was incubated inside Sky-Futures and spun out prior to the sale of Sky-Futures to Private Equity in May 2019.. .
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Invensys
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Invensys develops and provides automation technology solutions and consulting services.
Autocanteen
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Vision AI powered self-checkout for catering
BigSIS
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BigSIS has developed a proprietary platform to create a broad portfolio of sustainable insect control solutions for agriculture pests and mosquitoes. Using contemporary robotics and artificial intelligence, BigSIS has reinvented the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), cutting insect costs by up to 90% to make this proven and powerful tool competitive with chemical insecticides, a £12.5bn global market in 2017.
BigSIS sterile male insects, which mate with wild females to control pest populations, are non-GM, non-toxic and are benign to other species, including pollinators and beneficial insects. Starting with codling moth, a major apple pest, and spotted wing Drosophila, a hard-to-control pest of soft fruit, BigSIS will develop, test and commercialise a series of insect control solutions for farmers and mosquito control agencies..
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Sauron Security
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Sauron is a smart, big data cyber surveillance system specialized in real time detection & remediation of cyber attacks on IoT devices
Optial
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Optial is a successful global supplier of Enterprise-wide EHS, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC).
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HAL Robotics
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HAL Robotics are London-based robot control specialists focusing on novel applications of robotics in creative and construction industries. Founded by a multidisciplinary team of architects and engineers sharing a strong expertise in machine control and IT, HAL develop robust solutions, with highly flexible interfaces, for programming, simulation and ubiquitous machine control.
Participating in the evolution of building technologies, they are working towards collaborative robotics for both on and off-site construction. Built as an extensible framework for real time interactions, sensor integration and machine interconnectivity, their solutions augment existing, familiar design and BIM tools..
Aliniant
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Mobile network performance management and automation
Cevitr
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Cevitr is an IT company that specializes in robotic process automation and a digital workforce that optimize the business process.
Winautomation
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Winautomation is an automation technology firm dealing with robotic process automation (RPA) technology services.
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Exentriq
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Exentriq is a platform for communication and automation of business processes of SMEs.
EnigmaMS
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Enigma MS is a deep science platform revolutionizing the analysis of organic molecules. We provide users and industries with a platform to store, analyse and collect organic data autonomously.
Our smart cloud effortlessly creates and elucidates science.. .
LDeX Group
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LDeX Group (LDeX) provides energy efficient data centres and intelligent networks from its enterprise grade, carrier neutral.
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Zanker
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Zanker creates state of the art Intelligent Electric Cars, Vans and Trucks driven by Artificial Intelligence
Microscaling Systems
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Microscaling Systems real-time auto-scaling using constant feedback from your running system.
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