Technical Design

Quality, considered design from our experienced team

We produce detailed technical design from high level control philosophy flow diagrams & synoptics to detailed electrical drawings, schematics, cable schedules, IP & IO schedules. Everything that is required to deliver the project.

Our focus is always on the quality of the design and ensuring the engineered solution is suitable for delivering the required performance. For this reason we remain manufacturer independent, selecting the most appropriate products for the project.

Our engineering team work with the client’s creative team to develop detailed design and technical specification for the project. We coordinate with the other technical specialists within the project team including lighting designers, media producers, and ride & special effects vendors to ensure an integrated design that is efficiently implemented on site.

Our design team don’t hide away in the office, they deliver projects on site. This gives them first hand knowledge of what works and what doesn’t, and ensures constant design evolution.

Programming 

One team delivering consistency & quality across a project

Robust, reliable and elegantly engineered control systems programming is at the core of our business.

Our team’s strong industrial engineering background is evident in our work. We programme show control systems for theme park rides with the same industrial standards that would power a car production line. What makes us different is the way we work. We are a team that works as one and delivers consistency across a project.

We have a developed in-house coding standards for all of our programming. The entire team follows these standards, meaning any one of our team can work on a project, picking up where their colleague left off without delay or re-learning. Our team have programmed entire theme parks using identical coding structures, naming and commenting with consistent user interfaces.

Ferrari world Abu Dhabi, Motiongate & Bollywood at Dubai Parks, Warner Bros Abu Dhabi, and Universal Studios Beijing are excellent examples of this. On these projects we either programmed every system in the park, or a large proportion of them. All of the programming of the show control systems, video servers, audio DSPs, PLCs etc follow a standardised structure and approach. All of the documentation is consistent. All of the user interfaces look the same, making life easier for the operations team.

We work primarily with show control systems from Medialon and Alcorn McBride; video systems from Alcorn McBride, 7th Sense Design, Modulo Kinetic and AV Stumpfl / Pixera; audio systems from QSC / QSYS, L-Acoustics and Peavey. Our skills transfer easily to other systems.

We have un-paralleled experience working with the Medialon range of systems, having worked with the Medialon range of products on a daily basis for more than 20 years.

We programme PLC & Safety PLC systems from Beckhoff, Allen Bradley, Omron, and Siemens. We love working with industrial control components in creative ways, including motion controllers, servo drives & motors, inverters / VDFs for mechanical effects, and water pumps / fountain effects. We have vast experience working with industrial fieldbus networks, and the conversion of protocols between systems.

Control Systems 

Custom control systems. Robust, reliable, built for purpose.

We build robust and reliable custom control systems, specifically engineered for the entertainment market. Our systems are built in our workshop facilities in the UK where they are thoroughly tested, programmed, and proven, before being shipped worldwide.

The control systems generally take the form of ‘racks’ comprised of computers and network switches, along with show control components such as audio DSPs, video servers and more. Alternatively they are built as ‘industrial control panels’ containing PLCs, servo drives, inverters, remote IO, and other control hardware. Often the control systems are hybrid builds combining the two form factors.

Our industrial engineering background can be seen in the quality of the system design and build.

We build:

• Ride show supervisor systems

• PLC & safety PLC control systems

• Water fountain control systems

• SFX control systems

• Show control & network systems

• Audio DSP and video server systems

• Motion control & theatre control

• Custom / bespoke control systems

• Operator interfaces

Turnkey Projects

Realising the creative design.

From concept to completion, our turnkey technical solutions realise the creative design.

There is nothing more satisfying than taking a project right through from the initial creative concept to a delivered working system.

We often work on projects many years in advance of the planed opening date, with out involvement varying depending on the project requirements.

At one end of the scale we provide design advice and consulting at the start of a project to ensure smooth delivery when we come to program the systems for an AV integrator. At the other end of the scale we embark on large, longer term projects involving complete technical design, manufacture, programming, installation, and project management of the systems.

Professional, engineered projects delivered with passion. From concept to completion.