Automation System Design & Integration
Warehouse Design and Site Fit Out
We design the manual and semi-automated areas of the warehouse to ensure flow, safety, and buildability. This includes practical layout development, equipment selection, and costed fit-out scope that can be taken to market or issued to contractors. We remain vendor-neutral, validate options against business case, throughput assumptions, and align the design with site infrastructure, workforce, and compliance requirements to de-risk the transition from planning into execution.
What we deliver
- Independent, vendor-neutral feasibility and option validation grounded in operational data
- Industrial storage design and fit-out scoping, including budget costing
- MHE selection support, layout definition, and fit-out costing
- Site wide warehouse layout development in AutoCAD
- Safety design support including access, walkways, separation, and compliance considerations
- Maintains program-wide oversight to close delivery gaps
- Infrastructure alignment allowances including power, fire, safety, and site services interfaces
- DILO development for people, machines, staging, and high-risk interactions
- Packing and dispatch area design, including third-party equipment specification and integration allowances
- Functional documentation support suitable for tender, contractor pricing, and construction issue
Automation Solution Detailed Design Support
We operate as an extension of the client team to govern vendor detailed design, ensuring the final automation solution is operationally fit, contract-aligned, safe, and sign-off ready. We lead the right conversations early, enforce structure, and remove ambiguity before it becomes rework. This includes validating detailed design against integration, compliance, and performance criteria, and ensuring coordination between automation layout, facility constraints, and end-to-end operational flow.
What we deliver
- Lead vendor detailed design workshops to ensure the solution remains aligned to operational intent
- Validate design decisions and assumptions against throughput requirements and operational constraints
- Review technical design decisions against proposal scope and business requirements
- Review hardware and workstation design for safety, ergonomics, and operator practicality
- Analyse and validate vendor layouts, providing clear sign-off recommendations and conditions
- Integrate the vendor layout into the overall warehouse master layout to ensure end-to-end flow
- Attend and influence building and services workshops to ensure the facility supports the automated solution
- Design validation against compliance, performance, and integration readiness criteria prior to sign-off
Automation Software Integration and WCS/WMS Alignment
We govern the definition and alignment of WCS functionality, software requirements, and integration between WMS and WCS. Our role is to drive clarity, control actions, and ensure interface design is validated against real operations before development and commissioning. We remain independent and structured, ensuring requirements are complete, testable, and tied to measurable performance outcomes—not interpretation.
What we deliver
- Support detailed design workshops to define WCS functionality and expected system performance
- Capture, refine, and structure software requirements into implementable specifications
- Validate WCS functional design against operational needs, constraints, exception handling, and performance criteria
- Review software specifications to confirm requirements are complete, testable, and unambiguous
- Track open actions and enforce closure of design decisions and outstanding items
- Lead WMS–WCS integration workshops and interface definition sessions
- Ensure interface mapping, message flows, error handling, and integration requirements are documented and owned
- Align client, vendor, and operations stakeholders to confirm feasibility, readiness for development, and clean commissioning entry