Hone Hone

From idea to pilot to production

We design, build and ship our own measurement instruments. Bring us an idea, a proof of concept or a working prototype, and the same engineers take your product the rest of the way.

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A thumb on the red button of the Hone Lab Red as grain pours into the sample window

Hone Lab Red. Designed here, proven in the paddock, built at volume.

Working with

  • SunRice Group
  • GrainCorp
  • Agriprove
  • Carbon West
  • AMPS
  • CSIRO
  • Nutrient Advantage

Wherever you are up to

Idea, proof of concept or prototype. We pick it up from there.

Most clients arrive somewhere in the middle. Wherever that is, the work is staged, each stage ends with outputs you own, and the next decision is yours.

  1. Stage 1

    Idea

    You know the problem and who has it.

    A short, fixed-scope discovery turns that into a costed plan and a first technical direction.

    How discovery works →
  2. Stage 2

    Proof of concept

    Something works on the bench.

    We engineer it into a prototype real users can trial in real conditions.

    Our engineering disciplines →
  3. Stage 3

    Prototype

    It works, but not at volume.

    We rework the design for manufacture and hand you a production package a contract manufacturer can build from.

    The path to production →
  4. Stage 4

    Pilot & production

    Time to build it properly.

    We place the build with a contract manufacturer, the route our own instruments take, and stay on through the first runs.

    Pilot runs and supplier management →
A Hone engineer holding the open electronics and optical module of an instrument at the workshop bench

Why Hone

Engineers who ship their own product

We design, calibrate and support every Hone instrument ourselves, and our manufacturing partners build them from packages we produce. We have taken our own instruments through design for manufacture, supplier selection and compliance. That is the route we run for yours.

Engineering services for your product Design for manufacture and the path to production Custom calibrations for your application
A grower holding up the Hone Lab Red in a wheat paddock, with moisture and protein results on the phone

Our own instrument

The Hone Lab Red

A handheld NIR analyser that reads moisture, protein and oil from a grain sample in seconds, in the paddock, on the header or at the receival stand. Designed in Newcastle, calibrated on our own laboratory data, built by our manufacturing partners and supported for the long run.

It is also the product every claim on this page was learned on.

See the instrument range Order a Lab Red →

Where our instruments work today

All applications →
The Hone Lab Red standing in a bucket of barley at the edge of a crop

Grain testing

Moisture, protein and oil at the point of receival, with results in seconds.

 A phone showing total organic carbon results held above a freshly dug soil pit

Soil & carbon

Compliant soil carbon measurement, trusted at project scale.

See Hone in the field

Adam Hoare on testing grain at harvest: moisture and protein in seconds, on the header.

Adam Hoare, Farmer, Poomah Farm

Connected product?

The cloud platform beneath our own instruments is available for yours, under your name. About Hone Foundation →

Bring us the idea, the prototype or the problem

You will talk directly with the engineers who would do the work.

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