Plyable joins NCC to accelerate AI adoption across UK manufacturing

OXFORD, UK – 3 November 2026 – Plyable has joined NCC as a Tier 2 member, deepening a long-standing relationship to bring its cloud-hosted software platform, Tangible, to the wider UK manufacturing community.

Through this membership, Plyable will collaborate with NCC’s network of suppliers, SMEs and industry leaders to test, refine, and scale Tangible’s deterministic and AI-driven capabilities against complex, real-world industrial requirements. The partnership aligns directly with NCC’s focus on enabling businesses to adopt new digital, AI and automation technologies, with Plyable working to make automation more accessible and close the industry’s confidence gap in AI adoption.

“We look forward to welcoming Plyable as a NCC Tier 2 member, continuing a long-standing collaboration. Partnerships like this enable NCC to connect cutting-edge digital capability with real-world challenges across the engineering lifecycle, unlocking business growth and long-term UK competitiveness.”

Katy Riddington, Chief Portfolio Officer and Managing Director for Supporting Growth at NCC

“Joining NCC is a natural next step for a relationship that goes back many years. Membership gives us a world-class environment to work alongside NCC and its network, building industry confidence in automated quoting and design, and bringing Tangible to more of the UK supply chain.”

Wes Tonks, Business Development Director at Plyable

While the collaboration will initially target long-standing bottlenecks in Plyable’s traditional area of expertise, composite manufacturing, Tangible is designed with the flexibility to support all manufacturing processes. Plyable will leverage NCC’s extensive industry links to expand this reach outward, driving the adoption of Tangible Auto-Quote, a system that generates editable, geometry-driven quotes from CAD and PDF drawings while performing automated design-for-manufacture (DFM) checks. This directly addresses the industry’s reliance on slow, manual quoting processes and frees up limited engineering resources.

“By centralising manufacturing knowledge and applying it digitally, Tangible enables faster, more accurate quotations and supports more confident, streamlined, and scalable decision-making.”

Shaw Beattie, Engineering Capability Lead at NCC

Looking ahead, the two organisations will also collaborate on Auto-Mould, Plyable’s patented technology for generating production-ready mould and pattern CAD directly from component files. Set to launch in Q1 2027, Auto-Mould is designed to slash pre-production engineering lead times and unlock high-rate manufacturing capabilities for UK supply chains.

This formal membership builds on years of successful collaboration between the two organisations, including Plyable’s prominent case study in the NCC-republished 2023 Mould Tooling for FRP Good Practice Guide. It also arrives during a period of significant momentum for Tangible, which is currently a finalist for Innovation in Composite Manufacture at the Composites UK Industry Awards 2026.