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Orion Five Engineering

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Services

Two capabilities. One team, one delivery.

Automation is only as good as the data underneath it, and reaching that data is integration work. That's why one team does both.

  • Systems integration
  • AI workflow automation

Systems integration

UNIT 01

One working layer, not a stack of point solutions

We bring your industrial control, OT, and enterprise systems onto one working layer, from the feasibility study through to maintenance and support.

  • Industrial and OT systems integration
  • Maritime and port systems integration
  • Integrated command centres and video wall systems

Most estates we inherit grew one system at a time. We start by deciding what to decommission, what to move, and what has to stay on premise. Then we choose the tool for the problem in front of us — not the one we sold last time. We specify monitoring, guaranteed message delivery, and behaviour under partial failure in the design, so you do not discover them in production.

An integrated command centre is often where this lands: live video, sensor monitoring, scheduling, and performance tracking on one surface. Your operations team sees and directs a mobile workforce from a single position.

AI workflow automation

UNIT 02

Automation is only as good as the data under it

We put agentic automation, RPA, computer vision, and predictive maintenance where they remove real operational friction.

  • Process automation and agentic workflows
  • Robotic process automation (RPA)
  • Computer vision applications
  • Predictive maintenance
  • Custom integration software and interfaces

The constraint is almost never the model. It is whether your data is complete, current, and trustworthy enough to act on. You beat your competition with better data — not more of it, but the data they do not have. Getting there is integration work, which is why we treat the two pillars as one job.

That work is often software in its own right — the APIs, middleware and dashboards that let an OT system, an enterprise application, and an automation layer act on the same data. We build it as part of the same engagement rather than handing it to a separate vendor once the integration is done.

Recently delivered: a machine-learning quality control system for pharmaceutical pill packs, and an RFID-based asset and inventory system with a self-service kiosk for a Government Agency.

Scope of work

UNIT 03

Five core services, one accountable team

Whichever pillar your engagement starts in, the work runs through the same five services, delivered by the team that scoped it. That scoping runs in four stages, each one gating the next.

  • Systems integration for digital platforms
  • Feasibility studies and architecture development
  • Quality assurance and testing
  • Software optimisation and issue resolution
  • Maintenance and support services

The framework

UNIT 04

Five layers that have to hold before a system is worth switching on

We deliver both capabilities against the same five layers: what has to be true before a system is worth switching on, whichever service your engagement starts in. We publish them so you can judge any proposal against a stated standard, ours included.

Five machined steel plates held apart in an exploded stack, with a thin red light line running through each gap.
FIG. 01The Junction Framework. A junction is any point where two systems that were never designed for each other have to meet. Nearly every failure we get called in to repair is at one of them.
L1

Anatomy

What is actually running on site

Equipment, protocols, signal paths, and the people whose work depends on them, recorded as found rather than as drawn. Estates grow one system at a time, and the drawings usually stopped being true somewhere around the third addition.

Artefact
A signal and interface register, dated to the walk.
Prevents
Designing against documentation that no longer describes the plant.
L2

Readiness

Whether the data can carry the decision

Before a decision is handed to software, the data behind it is tested for coverage, currency, and whether the people who produce it already trust it. The constraint is almost never the model.

Artefact
A readiness verdict for each decision in scope, including the ones we advise against automating yet.
Prevents
Automating a judgement the underlying data cannot support.
L3

Boundary

Where two systems meet, and what happens when one of them fails

Interfaces, data flows, protocol boundaries, message delivery, and behaviour under partial failure, all specified before anything is priced. Every junction in the design carries a named owner and a stated failure mode.

Artefact
A preliminary engineering design that names its own constraints.
Prevents
Meeting the integration boundary for the first time during commissioning.
L4

Accountability

Who answers for what the system decides

For anything with a model inside it: what it is allowed to decide on its own, what is logged, who reviews it, and how it is withdrawn. Our practice is aligned to ISO/IEC 42001:2023, with the Singapore IMDA framework and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework as reference points.

Artefact
A control set mapped to the standard, with owners named in it.
Prevents
A system that cannot be audited, explained, or switched off.
L5

Continuity

The system a year after handover

Who runs it, what happens when it drifts, and what your own team was trained to do about it. Handover is a date. Keeping it running is a schedule, and we price it as one.

Artefact
An operator runbook and a managed-service schedule.
Prevents
A delivered system that quietly falls out of use.

A macro view of two steel plates that have failed to seat, the red light line broken across the open joint and a bolt left loose beside it.

Four questions worth asking any integrator, including us

A joint that fails on commissioning day was decided months earlier, in a proposal nobody interrogated. Ask these four before you sign one.

  1. Which of these five layers does the proposal actually price?

    Most price L3 alone, then discover L1 on site and raise a variation for it.

  2. What is the failure mode for the busiest interface in the design?

    If it cannot be answered in a sentence, it has not been designed yet.

  3. Who is accountable for this system in month thirteen, by name?

    Support that belongs to nobody in particular belongs to your operations team.

  4. What in this scope do you recommend we do not automate yet?

    An integrator with nothing on that list has not looked at the data.

There is nothing in the framework to buy. It is the checklist our own engineers work to, published so that any proposal, ours included, can be held against something.

Four sectors, and what we have delivered in each

A photorealistic 3D render of a dockside gantry crane lifting a red shipping container above stacked grey and white containers, small red sensor lights on the crane structure, on a plain white ground, representing Orion Five's maritime and port systems integration work.
01

Maritime and port operations

AI harvest sensing for PSA Marine's rooftop hydroponics, and a secured biometric fuel management system at Brani and West Coast Base.

A photorealistic 3D render of a white six-axis robot arm with red joint rings gripping a small part above a red-striped conveyor, on a plain white ground, representing Orion Five's manufacturing automation work.
02

Manufacturing

1,000%+ efficiency gain. An Enterprise Singapore EDG funded robotics line for Raymang Eggs.

A photorealistic 3D render of an open laptop showing a red data chart on a grey desk, beside a small white storage shelf and a compact sensor device with a glowing red light, on a plain white ground, representing Orion Five's work across small and mid-sized businesses.
03

Small and mid-sized business

Environmental monitoring for ENGIE, computer vision for PestBusters, and fleet communications for Chye Thiam Maintenance.

A photorealistic 3D render of white storage totes on grey steel shelving, a red-accented handheld scanner in the foreground and a floating red-outlined AI detection panel above one tote, on a plain white ground, representing Orion Five's work across logistics and public-sector operations.
04

Logistics and public sector

RFID-based asset and inventory management, with a self-service kiosk, for a Government Agency.

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