Lifting appliances
Offshore and subsea cranes, A-frames, davits and handling tools, designed and verified for dynamic sea-state loading.
Mechanical engineering consultancy
Equipment engineered for demanding environments.
We design mechanical equipment for places where loads are high, access is hard and failure is costly. Our roots are offshore and subsea: lifting appliances, pipelay and cable lay systems, ROVs, trenchers and their launch and recovery systems.
Sectors served
- Offshore oil & gas
- Pipelay · subsea
- Offshore renewables
- Cable lay · burial
- Marine
- Deck · lifting
- Nuclear
- Restricted access
- Energy & industry
- Specialist machinery
What we design
Equipment forhard places to work
Most of our work is offshore and subsea equipment for the contractors who operate it. The same discipline carries into nuclear and the wider energy sector, wherever equipment has to be right first time.
Pipelay equipment
Reel lay systems and the tensioners, aligners, straighteners and handling equipment around them.
Cable lay equipment
Carousels, tensioners, chutes, overboarding and cable handling systems for power and umbilical installation.
Subsea vehicles
ROVs, tooling skids, and jetting and cutter trenchers for cable burial, from tracked chassis to the cutting and jetting assemblies.
Launch & recovery systems
LARS, docking heads, snubbers and umbilical management for safe deployment through the splash zone.
Specialist mechanical systems
Remote handling, precision mechanisms and test rigs for nuclear and energy research facilities where access is restricted.
Beyond equipment
Structural and engineering services
Not every job is a machine. We also take on the structures, analysis and technical leadership that sit around offshore and energy projects.
Offshore & marine structures
Seafastening, grillages, deck foundations, lift points and the structural assessment of existing assets.
Engineering analysis & verification
Finite element and hand-calculation analysis, independent checking and calculation packages to support certification.
Technical leadership
Technical authority and lead engineer roles on multidisciplinary projects, on your team or ours.
How we help
From first sketchto commissioning and delivery
Bring us in at concept stage, for a single calculation package, or to take a design all the way through manufacture to commissioning and handover.
Concept & feasibility
Options, layouts and early sizing to test an idea before money is committed.
Detailed design
3D models, assemblies and general arrangements through to manufacturing drawings.
Analysis & verification
Structural and mechanical analysis, checked and documented for certification.
Manufacture support
Technical queries, concessions and design changes through fabrication and build.
Commissioning & delivery
Factory acceptance, testing, commissioning and support into operation.
Design review
A second pair of eyes on an existing design, or a rescue for one that has stalled.
| Analysis | Finite element and hand calculation |
|---|---|
| Design | 3D CAD, general arrangement and manufacturing drawings |
| Data | Within your PLM and drawing standards, or self-contained |
| Standards | To the codes and class rules your project requires |
We can work inside your PLM and drawing standards, or deliver a self-contained package.
How we work
Built around your operation
Equipment offshore lives or dies on its interfaces: the vessel, the product, the sea state and the crew. We start there.
- 01
Brief
Understand the operation, vessel interfaces, loads and constraints.
- 02
Concept
Develop and compare options; agree the arrangement with you.
- 03
Design & analysis
Detailed design, FEA and calculations, checked as we go.
- 04
Deliver & commission
Drawings and calculation packs, then support through manufacture, test and commissioning.
Selected work
Projects we haveled and delivered
Project details are generalised to respect client confidentiality.
30,000+Engineering hours coordinated
2000 t+Individual installation lifts
≈1 kmRigid pipe spooled in trials
CertifiedIntegrated system and subsystems
Offshore energy
Technical leadership on a major offshore pipelay system
Our principal engineer, embedded as technical lead in the client's team, helped restart a stalled programme and take an integrated pipelay system through certification, commissioning and full-scale trials.
FATConcept to factory acceptance
3High-capacity jetting pumps integrated
3Load regimes structurally verified
LeadFinal mechanical technical authority
Subsea engineering
Engineering development of a subsea jetting trencher
Mechanical technical leadership on a subsea jetting vehicle, from an established concept through detailed design, structural verification and jetting integration to factory acceptance.
Who you work with
Senior engineering expertise.
Direct access.
AuraTech Innovation was founded in Darlington in 2012 to provide specialist mechanical and structural engineering consultancy to the energy, offshore and marine industries.
Led by a principal engineer with over 25 years of industry experience, AuraTech brings the technical capability and leadership experience of major engineering organisations, without the layers of management.
Our experience spans complex multidisciplinary engineering projects, including technical leadership of a €130 million offshore pipelay system, delivery of DNV-certified equipment, advanced subsea vehicles, heavy lifting systems, marine renewable technologies and fusion energy research.
From early concept development and advanced engineering analysis through to detailed design, manufacture, commissioning and operational delivery, we provide practical engineering solutions backed by real project experience.
No account managers. No unnecessary hand-offs. You work directly with the engineer responsible for delivering the work.
We are growing. If you're a mechanical, structural or design engineer with relevant industry experience and share our approach to engineering, we'd be interested in hearing from you.
- Founded
- 2012
- Experience
- 25+ years
The group
Hardware and software,under one roof
AuraTech Innovation is the parent company. We engineer physical equipment; Moduli, our software business, builds the engineering tools and services behind it.
Hardware engineering
AuraTech Innovation
Mechanical and structural engineering of offshore, marine, subsea and energy equipment for contractors and equipment owners.
Software & services
Moduli
Engineering software built from the same practice: Calculi for engineering calculations, with Fluvi to follow.
From the archive
In-house R&D
Before focusing on client work we developed our own robotic systems for subsea and aerial survey. They are part of our history, and what we learned building them feeds into the equipment we design today.
Our most ambitious project
Vegetation management for overhead power lines
A complete survey system, from a drone-based LiDAR data acquisition vehicle to ATLAS, our own cloud platform, built to replace walking the line and judging clearance by eye.
Read the project
Subsea R&D
Work-class ROV concept
An in-house ROV design study.
Aerial R&D
AT-1
Aerial endurance vehicle. Selected for the Innovate UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems Mission to California, 2014.
Survey R&D
Iris (ATI-0001)
Survey sensor head for drone platforms.
Start a project
Got equipment to design,
check or rescue?
Send a short description of the operation and where you are in the design. We will reply within two working days with how we can help and an indicative scope.
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