The business wants to improve the quality and accuracy of its puppets in the most cost-effective way possible.
It is also looking to find a faster, more efficient way of designing and making the moulds used to recreate the parts of its puppets.
However, it cannot afford to invest in certain industrial digital technologies.
Peter Saunders said: “We’ve always been a mix of traditional craftsman skills aided and abetted by new technology and processes.
“We’ve done all our technological development in a guerrilla way, keeping abreast with what’s available and finding a way of affording that when the right project comes along.
“We can’t always afford the most high-end equipment, but we have now found a way to access it.”