2025 So Far- A Constant Steam Of Best Evers!
Now we have reached the end of Q2, PowTechnology asked CEO, Dave Oakes, to describe how the year is progressing and what he expects going forward.
“I am truly delighted in 2025 so far! It’s been a constant stream of ‘best evers’ and the culmination of exceptional inspiration and dedication across the whole PowTechnology team!
In 2024, I said there were more opportunities for digitalisation than ever and that PowTechnology was perfectly placed to partner with organisations and help them meet their operational challenges.
That foundation has seen us achieve consecutive ‘best ever’ months in terms of sales, enquiries and order book! As CEO, it’s incredibly satisfying to see our versatile I4.0 solutions delivering efficiency, productivity and sustainability across so many sectors.
CHEMUK25 in May was another ‘best ever’ with our new Metron TankHub generating considerable interest. No wonder ... it’s a combined local/remote multi-tank level monitoring device, which can monitor level on 8 tanks and is compatible with almost any level sensor!
As with all our product developments, it earned it’s place on our development roadmap through popular demand and customer experience was at the heart of the design process!
We also presented again at CHEMUK25. This time the topic was, “10 Minutes To Digital Manufacturing - How To Get Moving”. It was superbly delivered by Will Brown, a PowTechnology IIoT Solutions Architect, who discussed REAL examples of outcome driven digital projects.
That presentation topic prompted so many enquiries that we expanded the theme into a full webinar in June. The original CHEMUK presentation and webinar are available on our YouTube channel.
Our experience is showing that many people are overwhelmed by the media noise & jargon associated to smart manufacturing. They are nervous of getting things wrong or they believe that adopting smart technology has to be done on an ‘all or nothing’ basis.
I believe that our current success has been helped enormously by our approach. You don’t have to understand what makes a TV work to use it and see great programmes. It’s the same in a factory. It’s true that the technology itself can be sophisticated, but PowTechnology make it really easy to connect data from sensors and machines to the cloud.
People can come to us with an idea and we offer them an end-to-end, ready-to-use solution. They can invite us to visit their facilities and suggest where small changes can reap large rewards. We’ve proven many times over that:
• It doesn’t have to be hard.
• It doesn’t have to be expensive.
• It doesn’t have to be risky.
It can be as simple as identifying a single process which could be improved by regular data, sticking a sensor on it and reporting the data to somewhere where it can be useful.
Often the engineering team can see the benefits, but they can’t get traction with management. PowTechnology have the case history to make an easy ROI sell to those people holding the budgets!!
Smart Manufacturing Week was another great show! We had an amazing stand and were visited by a huge number of people, including Ed Sheeran and Dolly Parton (!)
That definitely counted as a ‘best ever!! Okay … so Ed & Dolly were tribute acts, but we were delighted with the enquiries, which were very real!!
In addition to the industry shows and amazing product developments, we’ve consciously moved into the thought leadership space with a series of in-depth interviews, podcasts, presentations and webinars, all available on our YouTube channel.
This has super-charged our presence in the world of smart manufacturing and made us the go-to IIoT partner, not only to improve specific processes, but also for people needing to get sensor and instrumentation data into ERP, maintenance, building management and logistics platforms.
Some of our thought-leadership projects have involved our Siemens partners. PowTechnology were extremely proud to be the first Siemens Solution Partner to be given the SPi (Solution Partner Insight) treatment by Mark Gutteridge, then the Siemens Solution Partner Manager UK & Ireland. That interview (on YouTube) explores who we are and how we help customers leverage the latest tech to drive efficiency, lower carbon footprints and gain a competitive edge.
Many thanks also to Stevie Crimin, Siemens Account Development Manager – Chemical, Utilities, Oil & Gas. We’ve published a fantastic video of Stevie and our own Will Brown examining chemical industry challenges & how IIoT tech helps, illustrated with real cases covering sustainability, compliance, efficiency & safety!
I’ve also just participated in an instalment of Sustainability Saturday with Sarah Black-Smith, General Manager Motion Control and Sustainability Lead at Siemens Digital Industries, which was a lot of fun as well as being serious about sustainability.
Our partnership with Siemens goes from strength to strength, evolving into new sectors and applications almost daily. PowTechnology customise Siemens Instrumentation into end-to-end, fully-integrated, ready-to-go and customer-specific digital transformation solutions.
We do the heavy lifting, so that Siemens customers benefit from their exceptional technology, without the need for coding or programming skills, leaving them free to focus on their core business.
Going forward, we are delighted to be a sponsor at the Transform Industry Digital Manufacturing Summit to be held at the De Vere Wokefield Estate on 6 November. You'll be hearing a lot more about that in the coming weeks.
We're also about to launch our Metron5D which is a DIN rail mount device, with built cellular communications and ideal for remote meter reading.
There will be a more powerful version with RS485 MODBUS communications hot on it’s heels, enabling the device to interface to a wider range of sensors, as well as PLC’s, machines and a whole host of other devices. The Metron5D adheres to our core values of being easy, reliable and robust, so users can deploy at scale with confidence without the need for coding skills.
AND …. If all of that wasn’t cause for celebration, we have a major anniversary this year!! PowTechnology have now been specialists in intelligent automation for 35 years!
I asked ‘Team Pow’ how they felt about that. I was greeted with a resounding cry of ‘Partaaay!”. Absolutely! And well deserved!
The success of 2025 to date has been a real team effort and I’m confident that this year will continue to be our best ever! I must take this opportunity to thank the amazing PowTechnology people … those who’ve been growing, developing skills and taking on new responsibilities for years … and those who have brought their insight, experience and enthusiasm more recently.
I would also like to thank our fabulous partners and suppliers … and of course our wonderful customers, who keep bringing us their ideas and giving us the opportunity to bring them to life!”
PowTechnology welcome your enquiries. Please come to us with your application ideas and we will do our very best to help!