A new standard in consulting
A million layouts.
One answer.
Athenite is breaking new ground to find the best recommendations for our clients. Our proprietary AI-powered software, Daedalus, can design factories, warehouses, and whole sites: what to buy, where it goes, how it connects, and what to automate. Then it proves the design with cutting-edge mathematics, before anyone pours concrete.
A universal optimizer
Daedalus can optimize anything, for anyone.
You're building a new plant
A plant layout from a blank slab: what to buy, where it goes, and proof it will hit the number, before the concrete is poured.
You want to rearrange an existing factory
The machines you already own stay in the picture, and every move in the new factory layout has to pay for itself.
You're deciding what to automate
Which stations first, what each step saves in labor and throughput, and how fast it pays back.
You run a warehouse or distribution floor
Docks, storage, shipping bays, and forklifts, designed as one material-handling flow.
Your plant has more than one floor
What belongs on the mezzanine, what the lift costs, and what the slab can carry.
You're laying out a whole site
Where each building goes, and how trucks and material move between them.
You make food, pharma, or chemicals
Allergens, ingredients, or solvents that must stay apart are kept apart by the layout itself.
You make several products on one line
Changeovers and shared machines, planned so they stop eating your capacity.
The category problem
Most tools grade your layout. Ours writes it.
Simulation software can tell you whether the factory layout you drew will work. It cannot tell you what to build. There are more possible plant layouts than any team could try by hand in a lifetime. Daedalus's AI-driven search tries them by the millions, and hands back the one that holds.
The instrument
See the plant before it exists.
Everything happens on one drawing. You set up the floor, and the answer lands on it. Tilt the view and the plant stands up: every machine it bought, every conveyor it routed, every floor it chose.
Our flagship
Daedalus
Your plant, on paper
The floor plan of your actual building, an equipment catalog, transport options, demand targets, and a capital budget.
The whole design
Which machines to buy, where each one goes, how everything connects, and how big the buffers, fleets, and crews should be.
Its own answer
It runs the finished design for a simulated week, failures and all, and gives a plain verdict on whether it meets the target.
The firm
Consultants who build their own instruments.
Athenite is named for Athena, patron of both wisdom and craft. We take on hard operational problems, and where the right software doesn't exist, we build it. Daedalus, our AI-powered factory-layout software, is the first such instrument. It will not be the last.
- IHonest numbers. Every figure we hand you carries its uncertainty. When a result is too close to call, we say so rather than round it in our favor.
- IIThe decision stays with you. We bring evidence: simulations, measurements, and trade-offs laid bare. You bring judgment.
- IIIBuild the tool the problem needs. When off-the-shelf software can't answer the question, we write software that can.