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Initial launches first mobile engineering service for SMEs
Initial has launched the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’ s first mobile engineering service, providing small and medium enterprises( SMEs) with direct access to professional, data-driven building maintenance delivered with greater speed, flexibility and cost efficiency. Initial’ s new mobile engineering services division, unveiled at the Smart Built Environment Forum in Riyadh, introduces a modern, technology-enabled model designed to address the evolving needs of SMEs across the Kingdom.
The service is based on a mobile delivery model that replaces traditional static on-site arrangements with rapid response engineering teams. Engineers are deployed across the Kingdom and supported by advanced diagnostics powered by AI, IoT sensors and predictive analytics. This approach enables faster decision-making, improved first-time fix rates and optimised resource utilisation, helping SMEs manage their facilities more effectively and at a more competitive cost.
Central to Initial’ s mobile engineering division is its 24 / 7 Service Operations Centre, a digital command hub that monitors client assets in real-time. When a system requires attention, engineers are dispatched immediately, equipped with asset histories, technical manuals and required parts needed to complete firsttime fixes. This integrated process results in reduced downtime, lower costs and improved performance for businesses.
Initial’ s GPS-tracked mobile engineering fleet provides coverage across the Kingdom, including remote locations and multi-site portfolios. Urgent reactive tasks are managed through immediate dispatch, while predictive and preventive maintenance is planned and executed using automated alerts and data-led insights. Each site visit is logged digitally and supported with clear reporting, visuals and compliance documentation, giving clients full visibility of service activities.
Rowden and Isembard join forces to scale sovereign UK manufacturing and create 100 jobs
Rowden Technologies and Isembard have announced a joint effort to scale sovereign UK manufacturing of advanced sensing systems for national security.
The collaboration forms part of Rowden’ s multi-million-pound investment in expanding sovereign production of advanced sensing systems. Over the next 12 months, Rowden will create around 100 highly skilled roles across the Southwest, with Isambard manufacturing precision-engineered components to support Rowden’ s growing Magos product line – a family of sensing systems developed for use across government, defence and national infrastructure.
Bringing together Rowden’ s system design, integration and in-house manufacturing expertise with Isembard’ s MasonOSdriven, software-defined production facilities, the collaboration strengthens the UK’ s industrial base and export competitiveness.
It links advanced system design directly to industrial output – demonstrating how British engineering can deliver frontier technologies with a clear path to export at pace and scale, competitively and securely.
The engineering initiative integrates Rowden’ s sensing systems – including RF decoy platforms for tactical deception operations – with Isambard’ s software-defined factories, capable of rapidly prototyping, qualifying and mass-producing complex metallic assemblies, heat sinks and CNC components for sensing payloads. This enables a faster transition from lowvolume prototyping for early trials to high-volume production for operational deployment.
Applying modern engineering and manufacturing techniques proven in the commercial sector to mission-critical technology development, the approach compresses traditional industrial timelines. It allows the UK to deliver scalable, modular sensing and deception systems efficiently, cost-effectively and entirely within a sovereign supply chain.
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