EMC Operations Group is trying to improve our manufacturing functionality for our Sentian Class XPLORER UAS with the intention to meet the calls for of upper quantity orders. We’ve funding objectives to fulfill in order that we will intensify the manufacture quantity of our low-cost strategic drone.
We’ve by no means taken fairness based mostly funding, just because so many UAS (and customarily defence based mostly) corporations are overextended on VC funding. Typically what this results in is a recurring cycle of requirement to look slick and glossy in manner, model, and product.
Provided that we’ve taken no funding till now, we aren’t compelled to be pretentious in regards to the slickness of our system. It’s rugged, and with a newly refined and standardised manufacturing course of utilising the Dube-Moyo methodology of design; as such we’re prepared to obtain extra. Sentian is making a transfer to the UK, combining rugged and good design for implausible perform within the South African Bushveld with precision British engineering.
XPLORER is suitable, not distinctive, however simplicity is a profit reasonably than a disadvantage for our strategic system. As such, we’re trying to produce extra programs that may function inside this parameter of simplicity, bringing far decrease value options to mining corporations in Canada and Norway, Oil and Gasoline prospecting corporations in Niger, and pipeline inspection in Turkey and the USA. XPLORER is lengthy endurance, waypoint succesful, low value (each to buy and to function,) and VTOL module succesful making it the best substitute for a variety of features usually carried out by helicopters or mild plane in a business setting.
Certain, we’re getting additional concerned within the navy procurement, however this primary part of funding is for these business corporations (after the dealings we’ve had with African governments for counter-poaching and conservation.) We’ve the product, we’ve got the market and demand, however we don’t have the funds to ship as we need to.
When provide exceeds demand, we’ve got a selection:
-Increase capital with the intention to permit manufacturing to extend.
-Increase product costs with the intention to elevate the cash ourselves.
Provided that we pleasure XPLORER on being about as cheap as programs come for it’s class (solely about £500k for base,) we’d a lot want to do the previous!
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