Overview
ESI Robotics is a leading Portuguese engineering company in the industrial technology sector, delivering solutions in robotics, automation, and digitalized manufacturing. Headquartered in Vila Nova de Famalicão, it supports clients across multiple industries, from automotive and food processing to metalworking and medical devices. Its broad client base and diverse project portfolio demand high operational efficiency, particularly in the way projects are managed and controlled. One of the biggest pain points was tracking and controlling multiple projects across different client companies, each with their own processes, documentation, and expectations — creating complexity, delays, and fragmented visibility.
Client
ESI ROBOTICS
Industry
Industrial Tecnology
Service
Faster Decision Making, More Control over Projects
The Challenge
Managing multiple robotic installations across several client companies is a complex and demanding operation. Precise project management is essential for maintaining cost control and ensuring profitability. ESI’s main challenge was gaining fast, reliable access to the large volumes of project data stored across their systems. They needed to analyse this information at a granular level to keep every project on track. The complexity increased further with the need to monitor several versions of project plans — from early drafts to the latest operational updates — reviewed and adjusted on a weekly basis. ESI required a solution that would give them full independence in managing and updating this information, without relying on IT intervention.
The Solution
ALLOS gave ESI the ability to access detailed project-level cost information, providing the granular control needed to manage robotic installations across multiple client companies. It also simplified version management by allowing ESI to track every iteration of their project plans, from early engineering drafts to the latest operational updates, with full visibility over technical and financial changes. With ALLOS, ESI could manage and update all project information directly within Excel, removing the need for IT involvement in reports or data extraction. This independence enabled ESI to create their own analyses, interpret data in real time, and respond quickly to new project-tracking requirements — a critical advantage in a fast-moving industrial environment.
The Result
By introducing ALLOS into their project management process, ESI achieved a clear and measurable improvement in operational control. Project data that was previously scattered across systems became accessible in a single, reliable structure, allowing teams to analyse costs, timelines, and technical updates with far greater precision. The ability to manage multiple project-plan versions eliminated uncertainty and reduced delays, giving ESI real-time clarity over the status of each installation. Reports that once depended on IT intervention were now created directly by the engineering and management teams, significantly accelerating decision-making. Most importantly, ALLOS gave ESI full independence to adapt their analyses to each client, each project, and each week’s operational demands. This flexibility strengthened their capacity to monitor installations, prevent deviations, and maintain profitability across a diverse and rapidly evolving portfolio of industrial automation projects.
