The Aplomb Digital Approach

Our approach to digital transformation is holistic. It’s not just about tools, it’s about reshaping processes and culture to unlock continuous improvement and long-term value creation.

With adoption, users will see significant reductions in manufacturing cycle times across training, design, testing, verification, inspection, and certification, allowing for frictionless knowledge sharing across the value chain with real time, data driven analytics.

Digital Transformation

Aplomb Digital provides a clear, phased approach to modernizing manufacturing sitting on top of your existing legacy systems.

Configure

Transition from paper‑based processes to model‑based digital workflows for greater accuracy, consistency, and control.

Connect

Integrate engineering, manufacturing, and quality data to establish a single source of truth across the product lifecycle.

Automate

Automate complex, repeatable processes to reduce cycle time, minimize errors, and free teams for higher‑value work.

Synthetics

Leverage spatial computing and virtual/digital twins to visualize, validate, and train. Before impacting the shop floor.

Optimize

Simulate and refine designs and manufacturing processes prior to build, reducing risk, cost, and time‑to‑market.

Our People

With proven expertise across IT, finance, engineering, and sales, the Aplomb Digital Founders deliver a uniquely precise and highly efficient service model that elevates performance, reduces cost and compresses schedules across a wide range of engineering and manufacturing disciplines.

Our Values

Our Truth

We believe in our team. We acknowledge our challenges. Each of us are unique and value one another.

Our Beliefs

We strive for precision. We look in the corners and to the horizon. Focused on simplicity.

Our Transparency

Always sharing our curiosity. Open and honest dialog is key. We act with integrity, empathy and respect

Our Thesis

We challenge the status quo. We excel where we add value. We deliver on our commitments.

Leadership Bios

With proven expertise across IT, finance, engineering, and sales, the Aplomb Digital Founders deliver a uniquely precise and highly efficient service model that elevates performance, reduces cost and compresses schedules across a wide range of engineering and manufacturing disciplines.

John Vadino

Chief Executive Officer

Has led companies from just an idea to market. Through 35 years with brands in the Technology, Aerospace and Manufacturing markets he has helped bring new products to life. As The Production Network Inc. founder, he has created technologies and systems to build creative solutions for his team’s client’s products. As a lead investor he has driven Odyssey toward satisfying the need of industry to build the single source of truth for complex engineering and manufacturing projects. His strength is bringing together the right partners to create something larger than what they can do separately.

Steve Evans

Head of Sales

Steve Evans is an accomplished technology and industrial transformation leader with three decades of experience driving innovation across the UK IT sector, coupled with a deep 15-year specialization in UK aerospace and defence manufacturing and digital twin implementations. Throughout his career, Steve has sat at the intersection of complex systems engineering and enterprise IT architecture. His core expertise centres on bridging legacy infrastructure with advanced digital capabilities, helping organisations streamline product lifecycle management, optimise manufacturing workflows, and implement robust digital twin frameworks. His extensive background spans critical sectors where precision, data integrity, and operational resilience are paramount.

Pat Needham

Chief Operative Officer

Has spent the last 28 years in aerospace with Boeing in their Commercial Airplane, customer finance, and Global Services divisions. He is viewed as an innovative senior leader with a proven trackrecord in marketing, customer relations, financial analysis, strategic market engagement, and sustainableaerospace circular economies. Known for driving operational efficiency and delivering measurable resultsthrough strategic brand-focused engagements and large-scale event marketing.

Steve Fletcher

Chief Standards Officer

(BEng DipM) Has over 40 years’ experience within manufacturing engineering metrology. He started his career at Rolls-Royce Aerospace in 1976 within the Precision Casting Facilities. Fletch as he is called, received a Mechanical Engineering Degree and achieving the Lord Hives Award. He moved into RB 211 524 and early Trent engine development team working on development civil engines Turbine and combustion modules. Steve then went back to Rolls-Royce Aerospace, as the Global Process Ownerfor Contact and Non-contact measurement solution across all businesses and supply chain, introducing new measurement solution and analysis application with the manufacturing space.

Mike Phillips

Chief Technology and Solutions Architect

And his team are systems integration specialists with extensive experience designing, installing, and commissioning advanced inspection solutions for modern manufacturing environments. His work focuses on translating complex inspection requirements into practical, high performance systems that integrate seamlessly into existing production lines. Through Envisage Systems,he brings a vendor independent approach, selecting best in class hardware and technologies from a widerange of suppliers to ensure each solution is optimized for the application rather than constrained by proprietary limitations. Through careful planning and close collaboration, I help manufacturers implement inspection systems with minimal disruption and maximum operational impact.

Professor Andrew Sherlock

Chief Data Architect

And also is CEO of the Arrol Gibb Innovation Campus (AGIC) at Rosyth, Professor of Practice at the University of Strathclyde, and founder and CEO of ShapeSpace Ltd. His career spans advanced manufacturing, digital engineering, artificial intelligence and technology commercialisation. At ShapeSpace, a University of Edinburgh spin-out, he has led the development and deployment of engineering analytics, product data intelligence and 3D CAD search technologies in industry. He has also held senior roles at the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland, leading data-driven manufacturing and industry facing innovation programmes. His work focuses on translating research and emerging technologies into practical deployment across defence, maritime, aerospace, nuclear and advanced manufacturing, and he is now leading AGIC’s development as a collaborative innovation environment for industry, government, academia and skills partners.

Paul Garrish

PLM Specialist

Has spent the last 25 years architecting and supporting PLM deployments on some of the largest programs in the UK including Typhoon, Astute, Dreadnought, Type 26 and latterly on Hinkley Point C. He has worked with Teamcenter, Windchill and 3DX as well as integrations with Baan, IFS and SAP.