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Deloitte’s Australian member firm has purchased Efficientia Solutions, a local consultancy that helps manufacturers make their factories more efficient.

The Big Four member didn’t divulge the acquisition price. The sum likely wasn’t too large: Efficientia’s LinkedIn profile shows that it has fewer than 10 employees. An official press release stated that seven staffers from the firm, including managing director Gordon Cornish, will be joining Deloitte Australia.

Modern factories are packed with digital componentry. Beyond the obvious example of robotic arms, there are also the specialized computers that control a plant’s conveyor belts and other mechanical equipment. Depending on how far along a manufacturer is along its digital transformation journey, there may also be high-tech sensors that collect data about potential malfunctions and send their findings to the cloud for analysis.

Efficientia’s specialty is working with factory operators to modernize their IT assets. At the start of a consulting engagement, the firm can put together a report that summarizes the state of a manufacturer’s IT stack. Using that information as a foundation, Efficientia can provide suggestions on what new technology products the manufacturer should implement to boost production efficacy.

Efficientia’s expertise spans several parts of the IT product landscape. It can work with a factory’s IT team to plug production systems into a centralized ERP platform, an arrangement that eases tasks such as tracking operating costs. Efficientia can also help clients modernize the existing software they use to manage day-to-day manufacturing tasks.

Despite its small size, the firm has adapted a one-stop-shop business model more characteristic of large market players. Efficientia says that it can not only help manufacturers plan IT upgrades and carry out those upgrades, but also train a client firm’s employees in using the newly introduced technology products. Moreover, the consultancy can provide ongoing support once the initial stretch of an IT project is complete to help companies address any technical issues that may emerge. 

“The next wave of productivity will come from digitising physical operations for our asset intensive, manufacturing and industrial clients, and bringing that information into their core business systems to unlock value,” Deloitte Industrials leader Jesse Sherwood remarked in a prepared statement. “The Efficientia Solutions team brings that capability into Deloitte.”

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