Kentec has used three distinct space technologies to realise their system with graceful degradation for industrial manufacturing, initially in the production of car headlight glass elements: data management over a distributed platform; hardware and software redundancy techniques; and advanced image processing techniques. These technologies were acquired while working on the data management system of Europe’s Columbus space laboratory and the EC’s RACE project IOLE (Integrated On Line Environment), which rely heavily on advance space systems technology, and from advanced image processing techniques taken from the Hubble space telescope.