SR&ED for manufacturers.
Manufacturers claim SR&ED for the trial-and-error behind new processes, tooling, and automation, not for routine production. If your team had to experiment to make something work, there's likely a claim in it.
What qualifies in Advanced Manufacturing?
Eligibility comes down to one test: did your team work through genuine technical uncertainty? In advanced manufacturing, that usually looks like this.
- Developing new or improved production processes
- Designing custom tooling, fixtures, or jigs
- Automating a process where the outcome was uncertain
- Improving yield or reducing defects through experimentation
- Working with new materials, tolerances, or conditions
What a claim looks like
A metal fabricator developed a welding process for a new alloy that kept cracking under standard settings.
A plastics manufacturer re-engineered an injection-molding cycle to hold a tighter tolerance.
A plant automated a manual inspection step after no existing vision system could catch the defect.
How Chrono builds your claim
Chrono reconstructs defensible, evidence-linked timesheets and technical narratives from the records you already keep. No manual time tracking required.
- Production and plant schedules
- Engineering change orders
- ERP / MES logs
- QA and defect records
Advanced Manufacturing, answered
Is buying new equipment SR&ED?
The purchase itself isn't, but the work to integrate or adapt equipment under technical uncertainty can be. The experimentation is what counts, not the capital.
We didn't document our experiments. Do we still qualify?
Often, yes. Chrono reconstructs the record from production data and change orders, every entry linked to its source.
See what your Advanced Manufacturing claim is worth.
Estimate your credit in two minutes, then let Chrono build the claim from the data you already have.