Engineering Practice First, Technology Second.
Darbury Ltd is the engineering technology consultancy of Dave Bradbury, apprentice draftsman in 1980, founder of Darbury in 2000 and today an AI specialist applying 42+ years of hands-on engineering practice to modern problems.
42+ Years, Five Major Chapters
A career that has tracked the entire arc of engineering computing, from the drawing board, through CAD and 3D modelling, into AR/VR and now production AI.
Three Platforms, Three Decades
Darbury is recognised as a developer partner across the three platforms that matter most for industrial engineering.
Autodesk
Developer Partner: AutoCAD, Plant 3D, Inventor, Revit. Continuous ADN membership since 2000.
Apple
Developer: iOS, iPadOS and Vision Pro applications for engineering and field use.
Microsoft
Developer & Partner: .NET applications, Power Platform, Power BI dashboards and data flows.
Why Engineering First Matters
Most technology vendors arrive with a hammer and start looking for nails. Darbury is the opposite: we start by understanding your engineering workflow, the drawings, specs, P&IDs, asset registers, handover packages and then choose tools that fit it.
That principle is why a 1984 hand-drafting apprentice now ships production AI tools. The technology has changed multiple times, the engineering hasn't.
Today that means two complementary offerings: the consultancy and services at darbury.com, and the productised AI-enabled tools, PlantMCP, Plant Viewer, P&ID Analyser at darbury.ai.
Work With Dave Directly
Every engagement at Darbury is led personally by Dave Bradbury, 42+ years of practice, no account managers between you and the work.