EMC Operations Group is seeking to improve our manufacturing functionality for our Sentian Class XPLORER UAS as a way to meet the calls for of upper quantity orders. We have now funding objectives to satisfy in order that we are able to intensify the manufacture quantity of our low-cost strategic drone.
We have now by no means taken fairness based mostly funding, just because so many UAS (and usually defence based mostly) companies are overextended on VC funding. Usually what this results in is a recurring cycle of requirement to seem slick and glossy in manner, model, and product.
On condition that we’ve taken no funding till now, we aren’t pressured to be pretentious concerning the slickness of our system. It’s rugged, and with a newly refined and standardised manufacturing course of utilising the Dube-Moyo technique of design; as such we’re prepared to obtain extra. Sentian is making a transfer to the UK, combining rugged and sensible design for incredible perform within the South African Bushveld with precision British engineering.
XPLORER is appropriate, not distinctive, however simplicity is a profit reasonably than a disadvantage for our strategic system. As such, we’re seeking to produce extra methods that may function inside this parameter of simplicity, bringing far decrease price options to mining companies in Canada and Norway, Oil and Fuel prospecting companies in Niger, and pipeline inspection in Turkey and the USA. XPLORER is lengthy endurance, waypoint succesful, low price (each to buy and to function,) and VTOL module succesful making it the perfect alternative for plenty of capabilities usually carried out by helicopters or mild plane in a industrial setting.
Certain, we’re getting additional concerned within the navy procurement, however this primary section of funding is for these industrial companies (after the dealings we’ve had with African governments for counter-poaching and conservation.) We have now 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 as a way to enable manufacturing to extend.
-Increase product costs as a way to elevate the cash ourselves.
On condition that we pleasure XPLORER on being about as cheap as methods come for it’s class (solely about £500k for base,) we’d a lot favor to do the previous!
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