Together, let’s make your machine shop exceptional

About CloudNC and CAM Assist

The skills crisis in manufacturing is putting extra pressure on businesses like yours, but CAM Assist from CloudNC offers a way to streamline operations across your entire team.

CAM Assist helps you remove bottlenecks, shorten lead times, and increase productivity—whether it's programming machines, quoting new jobs, or selecting the right tools. This means your team can focus on what they do best, with less time spent on repetitive tasks - saving the typical machine shop over 1,000 hours a year.

Our software is built by experts with real first-hand experience tackling the same challenges you face daily.  

We use CAM Assist in our own 22-machine factory, manufacturing components for industries like Aerospace, Space, Oil & Gas, Nuclear, Automotive, and Defense.

Our goal is to help businesses like yours thrive, even as the industry faces rising costs, workforce shortages, and global competition.

Theo Saville

CEO & Co-Founder

Theo is a Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineer (M.Eng, University of Warwick), with a background in defence, laser-based metals 3D printing research at Warwick Manufacturing Group, and sales.

Theo entered metals 3D printing expecting to be able to harness a technology ready to disrupt manufacturing, but gradually became disillusioned with the state and future applicability of the technology.

He was exposed to CNC machining around the same time and realised the disruptive potential if it could be automated to the same degree as plastics 3D printing, and he co-founded CloudNC to realise that opportunity. Theo was recognised in the 2019 Forbes 30 under 30 in Manufacturing & Industry and in the MIT 35 Under 35 in 2023.

Chris Emery

Chief Scientist & Co-Founder

Chris has expertise in the fields of 3D Graphics and High Performance Computing, and an M.Eng in Computing from Imperial College London. Chris has been programming since the age of 12, having been coached by his parents (both software engineers) and started selling shareware when he was 15.

He co-created “EventBox”, which was acquired by Realmac Software within 12 months of launch. He then worked as a software engineer at Google, before leaving to found Five Sided Software. Prior to CloudNC he developed a GPU accelerated lightmapping engine of his own design for mobile games.

Chris was recognised in the 2019 Forbes 30 under 30 in Manufacturing & Industry.

Andy Cheadle

CTO

Andy is the Chief Technology Officer at CloudNC, a manufacturing technology company striving to make single-click manufacture a reality.

Prior to joining CloudNC, Andy held a variety of senior leadership roles across research, engineering, and architecture divisions within major telecoms, automotive and defence companies, including Chief Engineer at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, and Executive Director of Engineering at McLaren Applied Technologies, as well as in his own startup and in enterprise software startups.

He is a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society and holds MEng and PhD degrees in computer science from Imperial College London, and has held research posts within its Faculty of Engineering.

Jason Bowes

COO

Jason is a scale-up focused financial leader. He has a strong background within audit, accounts, taxation and data analytics, and has worked for a broad range of clients up to £150m turnover. He is a finance and accounting graduate from Newcastle University, placing 1st in his year. A qualified ACA chartered accountant, Jason was placed 1st globally during his qualification, winning the Peat Prize - an award for achieving first place in the Advanced Level Annual International Order of Merit.