Plyable secures significant backing from Innovate UK

Oxford-based automated composite tooling company Plyable has been shown recognition by the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK. The agency have endowed a grant for the purpose of developing their novel machine learning platform and design-to-product composite tooling service.

‘This Innovate UK grant will really enable us to fast track Plyable development, allowing the benefits to quickly feed back into any and every sector of the industry. Our objective now is smooth service execution and, as the system continues to learn, we can focus the time saved on providing our clients with exceptional service.’ Plyable CEO, Martin Oughton

‘With high performance, time critical situations and excellent quality at the heart of everything KWSP are involved in, being involved with Plyable is solving a big problem with fast turnaround, high quality and competitive composite tooling prices. Plyable has already disrupted our traditional supply chain and the potential benefit to the industry at large is huge. We’re thrilled to have been on board from the beginning.’ Stuart Banyard, KWSP

‘The Plyable concept strongly aligns with the NCC key objectives and Industry 4.0 developments. It’s great to see such creative problem-solving within the industry and we’re very pleased to be supporting them.’ Garry Scott, NCC

Using their proprietary automation technology, Plyable are specialists in the design and manufacture of tooling for composite parts. Their unique online interface, www.plyable.com, uses the latest in deep learning to offer instant quotes for a wide variety of part designs.

Innovate UK is the UK’s innovation agency. It works with people, companies and partner organisations to find and drive the science and technology innovations that will grow the UK economy.