The building side of physical AI
We design automation equipment —
and the platform it is designed on.
DatumProof designs automation equipment, and offers the platform it designs on to equipment makers. Control design stops waiting for assembly, wiring and programs stop disagreeing on site, and the know-how your veterans carry stays with the company.
What we do
Equipment, and the platform behind it.
Equipment for the steps still done by hand
We design automation equipment around your process. Every machine is designed on our own platform, so what is built matches what was designed.
Equipment design → ProductDatumProof equipment design platform
Shorter lead times from design to start-up, and less rework on site — for the design teams of equipment makers.
The platform →Every year, quietly
Every equipment maker carries a cost no ledger names.
It is the design problem found only after the machine reaches the customer's floor. Days lost tracing the cause, a schedule that slips, parts rebuilt — and at the worst end, a recall or a safety incident.
No account line reads "design defect". So the pain is felt at board level while the number is known to nobody. What is certain is that it is not small.
And the number changes by an order of magnitude based on one thing: when you find it.
- ×1 Found at design
- ×10 Found at integration test
- ×100–1000 Found on site or in production
A long-standing rule of thumb in software engineering. In equipment development, on-site rework, schedule slip and safety re-certification stack on top of it.
The platform
What changes for your design team.
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Control design stops waiting for assembly
The I/O list and BOM are settled on paper, so control design runs alongside assembly.
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Safety rules stay with the company, not with one engineer
Interlock rules become tables the whole team can read — not code, not memory.
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Start-up goes faster, and safer
The procedure comes from the design, so nothing is rewritten and the checks run in order.
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Risk review starts from a draft, not a blank sheet
Engineers spend their time judging risks, not listing them.
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Site problems are found before power-on
Sequence problems are found while the machine is still a design.
Getting started
Start with one machine.
See what the platform changes on a machine of yours, on a real project, before you commit. We build the first model alongside your designers; from the second machine on, your team runs it.
Have a machine in mind?
Which machine, and where its design takes the longest. We will tell you plainly what the platform would change for it.