01926 633333January 27th, 2026
Bourton Group is proud to announce a new strategic partnership with Ubisense. This partnership strengthens our ability to help clients across manufacturing, aerospace, defence and complex production environments design and deliver the Factory of the Future and manufacturing transformation.
What this means for you
For many years, Bourton Group has helped organisations achieve step-change improvements in performance through Lean, value stream transformation, robust process design and organisational development. Our focus has always been on improving flow, reducing waste, increasing reliability and building the internal capability required to sustain results. This partnership enhances that mission by adding real-time operational visibility and digital execution to our transformation work.
This partnership enables us to jointly develop the extended ecosystem that enables our clients to implement their “Factory of the Future” based on Bourton Group’s expertise in implementing Lean and reorganising into highly-focussed Value Streams and utilising Ubisense’s ground-breaking Real Time Logistics System as the bedrock that other Industry 4.0 solutions can be built upon.
In practical terms
This means we can now help clients not only design better operating models and future-state value streams, but also run and manage those systems in real time.
Ubisense’s SmartSpace® platform provides live visibility of assets, people, tools and work-in-progress, creating a digital twin of operations that connects physical processes to management systems and decision-making.
Our approach
Critically, our approach remains operations-led, not technology-led. We start with value, flow and performance. We then use digital enablement where it genuinely strengthens execution, control and learning. By combining Bourton’s deep operational improvement capability with Ubisense’s real-time execution technology, clients can finally connect strategy, process design and day-to-day operations in a single, coherent system.
Together, we support organisations to:
- Redesign factories and production systems around clear, highly-focussed value streams
- Eliminate waste, variation and search-time losses from day-to-day operations
- Improve flow, productivity, quality and delivery performance
- Create real-time management and control of operations
- Build scalable, data-driven, Industry 4.0-ready operating models
The result is not isolated digital initiatives, but a coherent, value-stream-driven Factory of the Future that delivers measurable performance improvement today and long-term competitive advantage tomorrow.
Get in touch
If you are thinking about how to transform your manufacturing or production operations and want to ensure technology is serving performance – not the other way around – we would be delighted to talk.
Get in touch on 01926 633333 or email info@bourton.co.uk.