UK MANUFACTURING / ENGINEERING IT
UK manufacturing cannot hire its way out of the skills gap. It can stop wasting the engineers it already has.
With around 55,000 vacancies unfilled and £6bn a year in lost output across the sector, every engineering hour counts. Yet engineers still wait on slow assemblies, queued solves and ageing workstations. GPU-accelerated virtual desktops and UK sovereign private cloud put that time back, on one contracted, predictable platform.
£6bn
lost output each year from roughly 55,000 unfilled UK manufacturing vacancies.
1/3
of engineering time goes to non-value-added work, with a fifth spent working from outdated information.
78%
of UK manufacturers suffered a cyber incident in the last 12 months. Over half of the worst cost more than £250,000.
If any of this sounds familiar, your bottleneck is infrastructure, not people.
You fought to hire them. Your hardware wastes them.
Engineers across manufacturing already lose around a third of their time to non-value-added work. Ageing workstations make it worse: multi-thousand-part assemblies that crawl, drawing packs that take all afternoon, rework after every engineering change. In a sector with 55,000 unfilled roles, that is capacity you cannot buy back.
The solve queue is eating your launch dates.
CFD and FEA runs lock machines for hours or days, so analysis arrives after the design review, not before it. About two-thirds of manufacturers already miss design due dates and time-to-market targets by more than 5%. Every queued solve pushes the next NPI gate.
Your CAD data is on laptops, in the most attacked sector on earth.
Manufacturing has been the most cyber-attacked industry for five consecutive years, and 78% of UK manufacturers were hit in the last 12 months. Design IP scattered across endpoints, sites, suppliers and home machines is exactly what attackers monetise, and exactly what your primes and OEMs now ask about in security questionnaires.
Two cost models, both broken.
Workstation refresh capex lands in lumps every three to four years. Public cloud experiments swing the other way: 85% of organisations call managing cloud spend their top challenge, and around 29% of that spend is simply wasted. Finance is asked to fund both and can forecast neither.
Built for the tools your engineers already run.
Virtual desktops are GPU-accelerated and tuned for graphics and compute-intensive engineering software, including:
Your PDM/PLM comes with you. SolidWorks PDM, Teamcenter and Windchill run exactly as they would on a physical workstation, against the same vault, with the same workflows.
All product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Running something else? Tell us in the assessment. If it needs a GPU, it is in scope.
“What differentiated Inevidesk was its ability to deliver genuine workstation-level performance through virtualisation, without introducing the fragility or administrative overhead we’d seen elsewhere.”
Danny Gillmore — Head of Information Technology, Grimshaw
Two products. One outcome: your heaviest workloads, off the desk and under your control.
Inevidesk
GPU virtual desktops for engineering.
Each engineer gets a high-performance virtual workstation, accessible from the design office, the plant, a customer site or home. Large assemblies and viewport-heavy work run on dedicated GPU resource in the data centre, not on whatever machine is to hand.
Inevicloud
UK sovereign private cloud.
Simulation, data and applications run on private infrastructure operated from the UK by a UK-incorporated company, under ISO 27001 certified processes. Your design IP stays off endpoints and where you can account for it.
Migration
A managed path, not a leap.
We start with an assessment of your current environment, run a scoped pilot with a real project team on your real models, then scale on the evidence. No rip and replace, no big-bang cutover, no disruption to a live programme.
One platform. Two business cases.
The technical case and the financial case for this decision are different, and both have to stand up. Here is each, in its own language.
Track A
For your technology leaders
Performance engineered for the workload.
GPU resource specified for large assemblies and long solves, not general-purpose compute dressed up for engineering.
Engineering hours recovered.
If a third of engineering time is going to non-value-added work, infrastructure that removes waiting, rework and machine contention is the cheapest capacity you will ever add.
Design IP off the endpoints.
In the most attacked industry, data in the data centre is a smaller target than data on every laptop. Access is managed, logged and auditable.
From design office to plant to supplier.
Engineers, contractors and external design partners work in the same controlled environment, with access granted and revoked centrally rather than by shipping files.
Headroom you will not outgrow.
The same GPU private cloud foundation carries simulation growth and future digital factory and AI workloads when your roadmap gets there.
Track B
For your financial and compliance leaders
Predictable opex replaces lumpy capex.
Fixed, contracted per-desk pricing replaces three-to-four-year refresh spikes and the shadow spend on top-up machines between them.
Neither broken cost model.
Not refresh capex, and not the usage-metered cloud where 29% of spend is estimated to be wasted. A contracted number finance can hold against budget.
Risk exposure you choose.
A scoped pilot limits commitment to one project team. Performance and pricing are contracted in writing before anything scales.
Compliance evidence, not assurances.
ISO 27001 certification, UK incorporation and documented architecture, ready for audits and supplier due diligence.
Answers for your customers’ questionnaires.
Primes and OEMs increasingly ask where design data lives and who can reach it. Centralised, UK-operated infrastructure gives you a defensible answer, and removes a growing obstacle to winning their work.
Curious whether your CAD and simulation workloads fit? A 30-minute call with our engineers gives you a straight answer.
You have three realistic options. Only one was built for this.
| What matters | Physical workstations | Hyperscaler public cloud | Inevitech |
|---|---|---|---|
| Performance on large CAD and simulation | Good until the model outgrows the box. Then another refresh cycle. | Capable, but GPU instance choice, tuning and latency are your problem. | GPU infrastructure specified and tuned for 3D and simulation workloads as the core product. |
| Cost predictability | Lumpy capex every three to four years, plus shadow spend on top-up machines. | Usage-based billing. 85% of organisations name managing cloud spend their top challenge, and around 29% of cloud spend is wasted (Flexera, 2026). | Fixed, contracted pricing per desk and workload. Costed in the assessment, before you commit. |
| Where your design IP lives | Scattered across machines, sites and laptops, in the most attacked industry on earth. | In-region storage available, but on shared infrastructure governed by the provider’s terms. | On private infrastructure operated from the UK by a UK-incorporated company, under ISO 27001 certified processes. |
| Compliance and audit evidence | Endpoint sprawl. Hard to evidence, harder to audit. | Provider attestations cover their layers. Your configuration and usage remain your audit problem. | ISO 27001 certified operations, documented architecture, one accountable provider. |
| Who you deal with | Hardware vendors and your own IT team’s weekends. | Tickets, tiers and account managers. | The engineers who built and operate the platform. Direct. |
The honest answer to “are you big enough to bet on?”
Proven on demanding workloads.
The infrastructure runs production CAD, BIM and visualisation workloads for established UK design and engineering practices today. Manufacturing workloads run on the same platform, not a new one.
Infrastructure we own and operate.
We are not reselling someone else’s cloud. The platform is ours, which is why performance and pricing can be committed in writing.
Certified and accountable.
ISO 27001 certified, UK incorporated, UK operated. Your security and procurement teams get documentation, not promises.
Start small, scale on evidence.
A scoped pilot means exposure is one project team, not the whole engineering function. You expand when the numbers justify it.
Case studies
Engineering teams running on Inevitech.
Manufacturing workloads run on the same platform that already powers production CAD, BIM and visualisation for established UK practices.
Grimshaw
Global architecture practice running BIM and visualisation workloads on Inevitech infrastructure across UK and European studios.
Morris+Company
Award-winning architects with studios in London and Copenhagen, collaborating in real time on the Inevicloud platform.
Hopkins Architects
An established practice delivering globally significant projects, powered by sovereign virtual workstations since 2020.
Book a 30-minute infrastructure assessment.
A technical conversation with the people who run the platform, not a sales pitch. You will leave with:
• A read on whether your CAD and simulation workloads are a fit for GPU virtual desktops.
• A realistic view of pilot scope, timeline and what migration would involve alongside a live programme.
• A costed picture for your environment, so finance can compare it against the next refresh budget.
30 minutes. No obligation. We respond within one working day.
Questions your procurement team will ask anyway.
On private infrastructure operated from the UK by a UK-incorporated company, under ISO 27001 certified information security processes. The full architecture, including data centre locations and access controls, is documented and walked through in the assessment so your security team can evaluate it properly.
Both. GPU virtual desktops cover interactive design work in tools like SolidWorks, NX and Creo. Compute-heavy solves in ANSYS, Abaqus and similar run on dedicated private cloud resource, so a long simulation no longer locks up an engineer’s machine. The assessment maps your specific workload profile to the right configuration.
Yes. PDM and PLM clients such as SolidWorks PDM, Teamcenter and Windchill run exactly as they would on a physical workstation, against the same vault, with the same workflows. Your data management environment comes with you.
We start with a scoped pilot for one project team, running alongside your existing environment on your real models. Nothing is decommissioned until the pilot proves performance. Most engineers are productive on a virtual desktop within their first session, because the software is identical. Only the hardware underneath has changed.
Fair question, and the right one to ask. We are ISO 27001 certified, UK incorporated, and we own and operate our infrastructure rather than reselling capacity. The platform already runs production workloads for established UK design and engineering practices. The pilot model exists precisely so you can verify all of this with limited exposure before committing.
It depends on the number of desks, the GPU profile your software demands, and your simulation compute requirements. Pricing is fixed and contracted, not usage-metered. The assessment produces a costed proposal for your environment, so your finance team compares a real number against the workstation refresh budget rather than a generic rate card.
Contract terms, including exit and the return of your data, are agreed in writing before you commit. Your design data remains yours throughout. We expect to win renewals on performance, not on the cost of leaving.
ISO 27001 certification, an architecture overview, and security documentation under NDA. Enough to complete supplier due diligence and answer the supply chain security questionnaires your own customers send you.
The infrastructure is GPU-based private cloud, which is the same foundation digital factory and AI workloads need. With digitalisation estimated to be worth a £150bn boost to UK GDP by 2035, the assessment covers how the platform supports your roadmap, so you are not building on infrastructure you will outgrow.