Technology and Data

Rooted in technology

Our Technology studio combines emerging digital visualisation and immersive technologies – with our bespoke software capabilities – to create a suite of AR, VR, IoT, and Industry 4.0 solutions.

Bloc is a ‘partner of choice’ for an ever-growing portfolio of international blue-chip clients. With our roots firmly planted in innovation, we continuously look to, and harness, new technologies and capabilities in order to push boundaries for our clients and develop bespoke solutions... ultimately helping businesses to work smarter, and with greater efficiency and impact!

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UX & UI

Insightful and targeted UX & UI delivers increased interaction, cost-savings and user retention. We collate, research, and investigate - evaluating and designing solutions to meet a variety of user goals and requirements. Based on user insight, our sketch to wireframe and prototype process delivers intuitive and fit for purpose concepts – which embody ideal user flows, interface development and interaction familiarities. All to provide bespoke digital solutions - both products and services - that not only aesthetically wow but are user-friendly and accessible at their core. We offer effective UX and UI design as part of our solutions or as a standalone service.

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Web Dev

We utilise industry standard web technologies to develop everything from template-driven customer websites with ecommerce functionality, to fully integrated and bespoke cross-platform products and solutions. Further enhancing interactivity, we can incorporate real-time Web3D content to build media rich environments, display data-driven dashboards, or visualise complex logic algorithms to guide users through their journey. Whatever your requirement, our programmers build intelligent, scalable solutions to suit all your business needs.

Explore our Web3D interactive asset produced for Inovance.

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App Dev

When a targeted solution is required, we adopt a more native approach. Our app development solutions interact with additional device functionality and hardware, augmenting content against environmental and user input to add that increased level of feedback. From interactive marketing material that creates interest at exhibitions, to detailed simulations and dashboards for inspection and review, we create bespoke applications that engage, inform and support. Working with your subject matter experts we deliver interactive content as part of a blended approach to brand, product, and service familiarisation.

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Immersive

Whether augmenting objects and media into our everyday lives with Augmented Reality (AR) or creating fully immersive digital environments with Virtual Reality (VR), we utilise the latest technology to create compelling XR content for marketing and operational support applications. With our accessible and cost-effective solutions, users can visualise complex data or explore impressive virtual worlds using hand tracking and gesture control technologies. We also incorporate gamification techniques, when required, to further engage audiences and build understanding. Augmented Reality (AR) involves adding virtual layers into a user's real-world environment. Virtual Reality (VR) is a completely immersive experience that replaces a real-life environment with a simulated one.

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Data

Data is everywhere. It enables companies to understand their customer and product lifecycles, make informed decisions, and address business problems that would have been challenging to tackle before. We offer a full data analytics service to help you compile, cleanse, understand and make the most of your unstructured data for use in our digital solutions. Alongside assistance with data collection, we help interrogate and utilise your information for progression – delivering operational and strategic opportunities across industrial and other sectors.

Collection | Analytics | Dashboards | Data visualisations

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IoT

We employ IoT technologies and unstructured data lake solutions to provide edge or cloud connected platforms that receive, store, and analyse data. Our systems can monitor, evaluate, and optimise on-demand or sandbox scenarios for future implementation – improving systems and personnel efficiency. We can support companies who wish to retrofit sensors to legacy hardware in order to collect, and make the most of, available machine data. Industries can benefit from smarter factories and real-time data dashboard access for modernised production, processes and maintenance, and operational opportunities.

Platform software | Real-time dashboards | Sensors

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R&D

The research and development of your current manufacturing and industrial processes helps you to meet evolving sector needs. We can support emerging strategies such as circular economies and adoption of servitisation, or meet the support requirements of traditional engineering operations and practice. We do this by providing programming, visualisation and analytical expertise to evaluate both existing and new hardware and software. By developing innovative and scalable products and services, we help improve your company’s processes, efficiencies and offerings.

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Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0 is revolutionising the way companies manufacture, improve and distribute their products. Facilitating this digital transition, we deploy digital twinning technologies and automated IIoT solutions to create virtual representations of your factories and processes that monitor and collect machine data, including legacy machine conversion. We offer data cleansing, analysis and AI capabilities to explore and optimise your systems and, in turn, drive improved cost and output efficiencies. These digital twins can also influence additional services, creating an integrated solution.

Digital twinning | Real-time data | Smart manufacturing | IoT

Our Work

Showcase

GSK Maintenance Support App

Created for use on a tablet, this step-by-step procedural maintenance application provided guided support - helping employees and alleviating skills fade.

Maintenance | App Dev | UX & UI

Case Study

Digital twin production productivity for JCB

Chosen to support JCB in creating their first Industry 4.0 ‘Factory of the Future', we harnessed our digital twin and data visualisation capabilities to digitally transform their production.

Industry 4.0 | Digital Twin | Process | Modelling

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Digital twin production productivity for JCB

Showcase

AR App for Errwood Hall Heritage site

With life-sized AR, 3D models of past and present, and accessibility centre stage, users can see this Victorian home brought virtually back to life – uncovering its rich heritage, from anywhere.

AR | UX & UI | App dev

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Interactive Web3D for Rolls-Royce ACCEL

Web3D experiences – the 3D visualisation of concepts and products on the web – are powerful tools for product demonstrations and interactive showcases. This example for Rolls-Royce ACCEL highlights their 'Spirit of Innovation' aircraft and its new world record for all-electric flight.

Web Dev | Modelling | Marketing

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Elevating Print with Web AR technology

Helping the University of Derby to attract and inspire increasingly tech-savvy students, we harnessed emerging WebAR technologies and print expertise to provide a new kind of experience – bringing an immersive showcase of the university's culture directly to students’ fingertips.

AR | Web Dev | Marketing

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Showcase

Rail Sector Data: Supply Chain Capability Mapping

The Capability Map allows users in government and industry to quickly and accurately answer key questions surrounding the capabilities of UK rail based on the results from two main tools: the Company Search Mode and Statistics Mode.

Data | Research and Development

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Rail Sector Data: Supply Chain Capability Mapping

Let's talk...

+44 (0)1332 265800 enquiries@bloc.digital

Derby Office

2^nd Floor, Enterprise Centre, Bridge St, Derby, DE1 3LD