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Technology and innovation

Our world-class technology capability means we can deliver outstanding innovations for our clients and provide them with solutions that our competitors just can’t match.

At our dedicated technology centre in Cambridge, we offer product development, manufacturing process development and technology consulting services across a broad range of sectors including healthcare, communications, consumer products and defence and security.

We have been bringing our clients ground-breaking innovations for over 50 years, from developing revolutionary manufacturing processes and providing innovative smart-meter solutions to creating next-generation 4G wireless test equipment and transforming drug delivery with novel medical injector products.

Latest Technology

CLient Stories

Launching Ora, a revolutionary new kitchen towel - Better All Round LtdWe helped to develop, manufacture and launch Ora, a ground-breaking new kitchen towel, taking it from concept to supermarket shelves in less than 12 months.
Using innovative procurement techniques to save lives - UK MODWe helped to rapidly deliver a system for detecting explosive devices – protecting UK forces and saving the UK MOD £17 million.
Helping to secure funding for new medical technology - MIMITWe worked with MIMIT to secure funding for new medical technology.
Developing an innovative smart-meter product - Landis+GyrWe helped Landis+Gyr to develop its latest 'ecoMeter' in-home display as part of the first regulator-compliant smart metering system in the UK.
Improving data quality and productivity at a laboratory and manufacturing facility - CambTEKWe worked with CambTEK to improve quality of data and productivity at its laboratory and manufacturing facility.
Accelerating the development of a home energy display device - ONZO We were instrumental in bringing Onzo's innovative home energy display device to market more quickly.

Latest Insight

Patent Box legislationPatent Box legislation offers an opportunity to reduce corporate tax rate – but to maximise the benefits CFOs, product developers and IP managers must align their strategies.
How to shrink a base-station into a Raspberry PiFind out how our Technology team got hold of a Raspberry Pi to see if we could implement a mobile phone base-station that could run our own private mobile-phone network.
Design - experience is everythingDiscover how our design team exploit PA's insight, technology and total development capabilities to deliver the edge over more generic agencies.
Meet the Brusheads - a new PA concept for children's toothbrushesThis is PA's new concept for a range of toothbrushes, designed to encourage children to develop positive brushing habits while making teeth-brushing fun.
Maximising the potential value of IP requires a combination of legal, technical and commercial skillsTraditional product manufacturers are seeing revenues from existing products decline as a result of market saturation and competition from global brands and agile new entrants. We explain how business can maximise the potential value of intellectual property.

Services

Product developmentDeveloping products from concepts, through design and development and into manufacture

Manufacturing process developmentRe-inventing manufacturing to deliver innovative new products

Technology consultingCreating commercial advantage from technology

Sectors

Life sciencesDeveloping the healthcare of the future

CommunicationsDeveloping and applying technology in the telecoms, IT and electronics sector

Consumer productsInnovating consumer products in the real world

DefenceExploiting technology and innovation to deliver defence transformation

Latest Media

BBC online - The life of Pi, 21 March 2013Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC technology correspondent, discusses the winning entries of PA's Raspberry Pi-making competition.
A pill dispenser and an air quality monitor – all from a £25 Raspberry Pi, 21 March 2013PA Consulting Group and Raspberry Pi's programming challenge competition winners announced.
Mandag Morgen - New million dollar market for the pharma industry, 5 February 2013Jon Howells, PA pharmaceutical industry expert, comments on the development of the pharmaceutical industry, and its prospects.
Renewable Energy World - Ocean energy contenders race to market, 26 December 2012Steven Carden, PA energy innovation expert, and Paul Johnson, PA energy technology expert, have had a byline on marine technology published in renewable Energy World.

Industries

Bankers wanted for hazardous journey

Establishing what is possible

Caring Times – Health and social care integration is coming: care home providers should act now or be acted upon, 1 May 2013

Management consulting

Business design: lessons from the industry

Award-winning service integration – AstraZeneca

Dagens Samhälle - How to get Swedish authorities to accelerate and brake at the same time, 9 April 2013

IT consulting

Breaking traditional conventions to mine real value from big data

Working with Google to launch a global real-time music game – Google

Ingenioren - 3D print may kick-start a sustainable economy, 25 April 2013