Busroot to help tackle £150bn productivity gap
Inefficiency across UK industry costs an estimated £150bn annually, but this could change with the introduction of Busroot, a new manufacturing performance platform from Cornwall-based Output Industries.
Busroot, connecting factory machines, systems, and shifts to create a real-time, centralised view of operations, was part of the Innovate UK Smart Manufacturing Data Hub (SMDH) project, which aimed to help manufacturers, particularly SMEs, enhance their processes and digital capabilities.
SMDH enabled Output Industries to further develop its technology through user feedback following deployment to over 20 manufacturers across various sectors.
The company said Busroot has since delivered 10–15 per cent productivity gains for SMEs without the need for additional staff, infrastructure, or external consultants.
In collaboration with other SMEs, Output Industries also contributed to SMDH’s Manufacturing Data Exchange Platform (MDEP), sharing anonymised data with the wider manufacturing ecosystem. Collective insights uncovered a 28 per cent reduction in energy costs and 30 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions across 36 industry sectors.
Tom Baker, Output Industries co-founder & CTO, stressed that Busroot is not a condition monitoring platform, rather it is a manufacturing performance platform that measures actual output against performance targets in real-time.
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