It's also worth mentioning that the economics of software may be very painful. Right now, the cost of building all that software is being shared across all the customers of this company. OP is proposing his/her company bears the entirety of it.
Assume you can hire good sr engineers. This project badly needs some scoping to figure out how much eng time and how much risk it will take to replace what exists.
I've worked on software for small-run scientific instruments: think 200 to 400 sold. The cost of software can be 30% of the total cost of the projects. It may well be that, given what customers are willing to pay, there isn't enough money in this to build good software.
And for OP, for core software, if customers interact with it as well, you likely need follow-the-sun ops too.
Assume you can hire good sr engineers. This project badly needs some scoping to figure out how much eng time and how much risk it will take to replace what exists.
I've worked on software for small-run scientific instruments: think 200 to 400 sold. The cost of software can be 30% of the total cost of the projects. It may well be that, given what customers are willing to pay, there isn't enough money in this to build good software.
And for OP, for core software, if customers interact with it as well, you likely need follow-the-sun ops too.