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How Navtech Radar eliminated waste and mastered quality with Azumuta

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Brand: Azumuta

Navtech Radar builds safety-critical radar systems where there's no room for error. With Azumuta, they cut rework by 30%, save 30 minutes of admin time per product, and run a fully paperless, ERP-connected shop floor.

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How Navtech Radar eliminated waste and mastered quality with Azumuta

Company

Navtech Radar

Headquarter

Wantage, Oxfordshire, UK

Employees

100+

Industry

Electronics Manufacturing

Group

Part of Halma plc (safety technology group)

Use cases with Azumuta

Digital work instructions, ERP integration, traceability, quality assurance

Headline metrics

30%

Reduction in end-to-end rework

30 min

Admin time saved per product through automated serial-number matching

Navtech Radar's Success Story with Azumuta

About Navtech

Navtech Radar builds high-resolution 360° radar systems used for detection, surveillance, and collision avoidance — in autonomous vehicles, critical national infrastructure, and high-risk environments where other sensors fail. They're part of the Halma safety technology group, and they live by a single line: Safety is everything.

The challenge: complexity in the build process

Navtech's products look almost identical but perform very differently. Getting the right build, every time, used to depend on what each operator could remember.

Similar products, different performance.

Variants differ in beam shape, beam angle, range, and processing — but share the same enclosure.

Heavy reliance on operator knowledge.

Word documents and paper route cards meant operators had to interpret variant-specific steps from memory.

Inconsistent builds and avoidable rework.

Misinterpreted instructions led to configuration errors, costly rework, and delayed deliveries.

Lost efficiency and missed opportunities.

No real-time link to the MRP system meant job creation and serial tracking were manual.

The solution: guided builds, connected to the MRP

Navtech wanted clear, unambiguous instructions that route the right work to the right operator — and integrate directly with their MRP. That's what Azumuta delivers.

Guided selection of the correct build.

Variant rules push the right instruction set automatically, based on the job pulled from the MRP.

Clear, unambiguous work instructions.

Visual, step-by-step digital work instructions with pass/fail checks. No more interpreting Word documents.

Reduced uncertainty and operator dependency.

Rule-based checks and a traffic-light system stop a build the moment something is out of spec.

Seamless MRP integration.

Jobs flow into Azumuta. Serial numbers flow back to the MRP. No manual data entry.

Richard Morris, Engineering & Operations Director at Navtech Radar

We moved from a system where we had good process control, but it was heavily reliant on operators understanding the versions and variants of our product. Having Azumuta means there can be no doubt — we're going to manufacture the right product.
Richard Morris
Engineering & Operations Director, Navtech Radar

What Azumuta delivers

Seamless integration

Jobs flow directly into production.

MRP-connected workflows via API.

Full traceability

Complete history for every build.

End-to-end visibility, no paper.

Centralised control

One source of truth for all builds.

Version-controlled instructions across teams.

Innovation partner

Built-in continuous improvement.

Ongoing enhancements and new capabilities — most recently, building documentation directly from video and commentary.

The first thing the production team ask is: "When will the instructions be loaded into Azumuta?" Operators actively rely on Azumuta to get builds right, first time.
Navtech Radar production team

Implementation: live on the shop floor in weeks

MRP integration in two weeks.

Azumuta's API connected to Epicor in under two weeks. Production jobs are pushed into Azumuta, and serial numbers are matched back into the ERP automatically at the end of the process.

First instructions live in a day.

The drag-and-drop editor let Navtech build their first digital work instruction set within a day. By the end of week one, the system was running on the shop floor.

Peripherals connected via the Peripheral Hub.

Barcode scanners and test equipment plugged in without infrastructure changes — eliminating manual data entry and automating pass/fail recording.

Azumuta connects directly with our ERP. With a single button press, jobs are created and sent to the factory floor. Serial number matching and pass/fail results are automated through API connections.

James Robson Manufacturing Engineer, Navtech Radar

Making production simpler, smarter, and more reliable.

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