Consulting

Client Work

More than eight years of digital transformation consulting across manufacturing, oil and gas, and industrial sectors.

Scope of Work

Industrial digital transformation, done properly.

The work spanned digital maturity assessment, transformation roadmap development, and leadership alignment, alongside SIRI assessor training and Industry 4.0 programmes for government agencies and industrial organisations.

SIRI was created in Singapore and scaled globally through a World Economic Forum and EDB initiative with McKinsey, Siemens, and TÜV SÜD. As one of the first certified assessors on that programme, I personally assessed more than 70 companies in Singapore’s founding cohort with EDB and TÜV SÜD.

Through my own consultancy, Advico, I continued carrying out SIRI assessments, taking my total past 100 across the 13 industry sectors listed here, and ran engagements for industrial organisations under Saudi Vision 2030 programmes including MODON and NIDLP, helping clients secure government funding along the way. Separately, Certified SIRI Assessor training and Industry 4.0 programmes, first at BSI and later through Advico for an inaugural cohort in Kazakhstan, reached more than 100 professionals across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Central Asia, North America, and Latin America.

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Sectors covered

Discrete manufacturingProcess industriesOil and gasPrecision engineeringElectronics and semiconductorsFood and beveragePharmaceuticalsLogistics and supply chainUtilitiesBuilding and constructionAerospaceMarine and offshoreFMCG

How an engagement works

A clear picture first. Then the work.

Every engagement is shaped around where your organisation actually is, not a fixed template. Most follow the same arc.

Find out where you stand

Two ways in, depending on what you need. A structured diagnostic, the Verathis Digital Maturity Assessment (S$2,000 to S$3,800), scores your organisation across Process, Automation, and People and produces a prioritised roadmap. Or a scoping conversation, if you already know the problem and need a plan to fix it.

Assessment and roadmap

Where the assessment route is taken, this runs over two to four weeks: the questionnaire, a working session with your operations team where it adds value, then a personalised report and a live debrief, with an executive slide deck in the Complete tier. The working session is where years of quality auditing pay off: finding the gap between how a process is documented and how it actually runs. You leave with a ranked list of what to address and in what order.

Advisory through execution

Ongoing advisory as the roadmap is put into practice: keeping the sequence right, pressure-testing vendor and automation proposals before the money is committed, and making sure change is managed on the floor and not just on slides. Charged at S$300 per hour, from S$3,000 per month on a retainer, with scoped transformation projects typically S$25,000 to S$60,000. Clients of past assessment engagements have seen a 20 to 30 per cent productivity uplift in the first year through targeted, assessment-led recommendations.

“Damien’s structured approach to assessments, combined with his deep understanding of change management and operational efficiency, made the evaluation process both insightful and productive.”

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What assessments reveal

The gap is rarely where companies expect it.

Across more than 100 assessments, the same pattern keeps showing up. Most factories have already invested in the shop floor. What holds them back is what sits around it: how the plant connects to the business systems, and whether people and processes are ready to use what was bought. Three examples, anonymised.

Consumer goods manufacturer, Saudi Arabia

“The machines were ahead of everything around them.”

The production lines were among the most automated I had seen in the sector. But the business systems were not linked to the shop floor, product development had no defined process, and the building’s own equipment was not connected at all. The next step was not more automation. It was integration: linking the business system to the line, connecting the facility, and getting sales and logistics planning together.

The lesson: High automation can hide low integration.

Food and agri manufacturer, Saudi Arabia

“The plant was smart. The office was not.”

The plant ran on real-time controls and could diagnose its own process problems. The business side was still largely manual: planning, quality and inventory ran on separate tools that did not talk to the plant, and most training happened informally on the job. A new ERP system was about to go in. The priority became designing the link between the ERP and the plant into that project from day one, and preparing people to use it, rather than bolting both on afterwards.

The lesson: The best time to plan integration is before the new system goes live.

Chemical producer, Saudi Arabia

“Best in class, and the gap was still the system they had just bought.”

This site was at or above its industry average in every area assessed, and best in class in most. It had recently introduced a major new ERP system. Awareness was high, but day-to-day use had plenty of room to grow. The advice was to get full value from the system already in place before adding anything new, and not to chase higher maturity in areas that did not suit the operation.

The lesson: Even leaders get more from using what they have than from buying more.

Every one of these gaps was invisible from the shop floor and obvious from the assessment. That is why Verathis exists: a structured look at Process, Automation and People before the next investment.

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Before you get in touch

Questions people ask before getting in touch

If yours isn’t here, include it in your enquiry and I will answer it directly.

How long does an engagement take?

It depends on the entry point. The assessment and roadmap phase runs two to four weeks: the questionnaire, a working session with your operations team, then a personalised report and a live debrief, with an executive slide deck in the Complete tier. The assessment on its own usually takes one to two weeks end to end. Advisory through execution continues afterward for as long as it is useful, whether that is a few months on retainer or a scoped project.

Do you work with organisations outside Singapore?

Yes. Alongside Singapore’s founding SIRI cohort, engagements have run under Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 programmes, and assessor training has reached professionals across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Central Asia, North America, and Latin America.

Is our assessment data kept confidential?

Yes. Assessment scores and findings stay confidential to your organisation. Examples on this page are anonymised patterns, described only by sector and region — never by client name or identifiable project detail.

Not sure whether I need the assessment, advisory, or a website?

That is normal — get in touch and we will work it out on a short call. If you are too early even for an assessment, Website Builds is a lighter entry point built the same way.

What does the hourly and retainer pricing actually cover?

That is the advisory-through-execution phase — keeping the roadmap sequence right, pressure-testing vendor and automation proposals before money is committed, and supporting change management on the floor. It is billed hourly (S$300/hour), as a monthly retainer (from S$3,000/month), or as a scoped transformation project (typically S$25,000 to S$60,000).

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