The Automation Roadmap
We walk your whole plant, rank every automation opportunity by payback, and hand you the ROI case for each one with capital and lease options side by side. It costs you nothing, and when a project is approved we deliver it turnkey.
Who this is for
“We want to automate. We're not sure of the exact areas. We don't have the expertise to walk through the entire facility and find the best opportunities with the best payback.”
If that sounds like your plant, the roadmap is the first step.
What you get
The roadmap is a working document your plant can act on, not a sales brochure. It is built so an operations manager can take it up the chain and get a yes.
Every line, receiving to shipping. We look for hand loading, hand packing, hand palletizing, product giveaway, inspection gaps and changeover losses, whether or not anyone has flagged them.
Each opportunity gets a budgetary cost, the labor and loss it removes, and a simple payback. Sorted fastest to slowest, so you know what to do first.
Every ROI case shows the capital purchase and an equipment lease. Many lines are cash-positive from month one on a lease, which changes the conversation with finance.
Concept layouts, budgetary quotes from the OEMs, the ROI model, and the lead-time picture for your capital year. Written for the people who sign.
What it costs
Through our vendor relationships we provide equipment at list pricing, with all of the systems engineering and project management handled by Next Tech Automation. You pay the same price for the equipment as you would have if you put in the hundreds of hours yourself.
We are paid by the equipment manufacturers out of their distributor margin. That is the whole model. There is no engineering fee for the roadmap, no retainer, and no obligation to buy anything when it is done.
List pricing from the OEM. Our discount is the OEM's cost of sale, not a markup on you.
Two dozen vendor partners across packaging and robotics. We pick the machine that fits your product, not the one we happen to carry.
If full automation can't justify itself, the roadmap says so and looks for the semi-automated version that can.
ROI calculator
Put in the line you are staffing today. You get the annual savings, the payback, and what the same project looks like as a lease instead of a capital purchase. Every roadmap includes the full version of this model, built for your plant.
Count only the positions the automation would replace.
Your roadmap builds this model for every opportunity in the plant, with your real numbers. We'll bring these inputs with you.
Estimates only. Labor savings use fully loaded cost for the positions entered; workers' comp, turnover, injury and overtime effects use the assumptions above, which you can edit. Lease figures assume a fixed-rate lease with a residual buyout at end of term. Depreciation benefit is applied to the capital purchase only.
Case study example
A charcuterie producer was hand-placing four products into large trays and hand-packing the cases. The solution included robotic tray loading, count-based filling, inline label verification and robotic case packing as one system, with the full ROI case in both capital and lease form.
Read the case studyProjected figures. Customer anonymized.
After the roadmap
The roadmap is step one of a turnkey project. When an opportunity is approved, Next Tech is the general contractor: one contract covering the equipment, the engineering and every OEM on the line.
Product testing at the OEMs, firm pricing, layouts and drawings for approval.
Fabrication tracked across every supplier, with acceptance testing at each factory before anything ships.
Rigging, placement, mechanical and electrical installation, controls integration between machines.
Site acceptance at rate, operator training, punch list, and support after the line is running.
Request your roadmap
We'll reply within one business day to set up a short call, then schedule the plant walk. Most roadmaps are delivered within a few weeks of the walk, depending on how many opportunities we find and how fast the OEMs quote.
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