Before signing an equipment quote
The figure has six digits, the integrator is the only one saying it is right, and nobody in-house can contradict it.
The instrumented feasibility study
An argued verdict, and the demonstration that proves it. In three to five weeks, your technical question gets an answer you can watch run, not one more report.
Who it serves
Before launching an automation project
The project looks feasible, but nobody can demonstrate it, and failure would only show after the investment.
Before a funding decision
Your fundraising or grant application is conditioned on an independent technical validation: you need proof that comes from somewhere other than you.
What you receive
- A system architecture and a hardware / software partitioning
- A risk analysis: what can make the project fail, and at what cost
- An argued feasibility verdict, including « do not do it » where warranted
- A demonstrator: a simulation, digital twin, test bench or prototype, depending on the question asked
- A presentation meeting, to decide rather than to file away
- A document and a code base that belong to you
How it unfolds
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Framing the question
week 1What has to be true for the project to hold? The study starts by reducing your project to the one question that decides everything: the question the demonstrator will have to settle.
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Building the instrument
weeks 2 and 3Simulation, digital twin, bench or prototype: I build the tool that answers the question, and confront it with your real data as soon as it runs.
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Measuring and consolidating
week 4Intermediate results are shown to you as they come. A study going off the rails shows in week two, not at the final meeting.
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Presenting and handing over
final weekThe verdict, its limits and the demonstration, presented in a meeting and then handed over. The document and the code are yours.
The price
From €8,000 excl. VAT, fixed price
The price is set in the quote, after the discovery call, and does not move afterwards. What makes it vary: access to hardware and data, safety constraints, and the shape of the demonstrator (a simulation costs less than a bench to build).
What the study does not replace
An honest study also says where it stops.
- A certification calculation: the demonstrator explores and compares, it does not certify.
- A final physical test: a simulation steers the design, the test passes judgement on it.
- A detailed build specification: that is the next step, if the verdict is « go ahead ».
It settles the question that comes before everything else: should you invest, and in what.
Frequently asked
Is the study deducted from the build?
No: it is a deliverable you keep, including if you have someone else build it. It does make the build quote far more accurate, though, and usually cheaper.
Can I have someone else build it?
Yes. The document and the code belong to you, and they are written to be picked up by others: that is a quality criterion of the study.
Remote or on site?
Both. Most of the work happens remotely; I travel when the hardware requires it: readings, trials, access to the machines. Travel costs appear in the quote.
Book a call
Thirty minutes, free, no commitment. If I am not the right person, I tell you before the call ends.