diff --git a/code/processes/gateway.q b/code/processes/gateway.q
index e0fbbd566..bc1a1ef83 100644
--- a/code/processes/gateway.q
+++ b/code/processes/gateway.q
@@ -535,6 +535,12 @@ addserversfromconnectiontable[.servers.CONNECTIONS]
 // Join active .gw.servers to .servers.SERVERS table
 activeservers:{lj[select from .gw.servers where active;`handle xcol `w xkey .servers.SERVERS]}
 
+/function to tell orchestrator to scale up or down
+scale:{[procname;dir]
+ handle:.servers.gethandlebytype[`orchestrator;`any];
+ neg[handle](`.orch.scale;procname;dir);
+ }
+
 \d .
 
 // functions called by end-of-day processes
diff --git a/code/processes/orchestrator.q b/code/processes/orchestrator.q
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..115abb412
--- /dev/null
+++ b/code/processes/orchestrator.q
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+/TorQ Orchestrator Process
+
+\d .orch
+
+/default parameters
+
+scalingdetails:([] time:`timestamp$(); procname:`$(); dir:`$(); instancecreated:`$(); instanceremoved:`$(); totalnumofinstances:`int$(); lowerlimit:`int$(); upperlimit:`int$());	/table for tracking scaling
+
+inputcsv:hsym first .proc.getconfigfile"processlimits.csv";	/location of csv file
+limits:@[{.lg.o[`scale;"Opening ", x];`procname xkey ("SII"; enlist ",") 0:`$x}; (string inputcsv); {.lg.e[`scale;"failed to open ", (x)," : ",y];'y}[string inputcsv]];	/table of scalable processes and the max number of instances allowed for each
+
+scaleprocslist:exec procname from limits;	/list of scalable processes
+
+/initialises connection to discovery process and creates keyed table containing the number of instances of each scalable process
+getscaleprocsinstances:{[] 
+	.servers.startup[];
+	`.orch.procs set exec procname from .servers.procstab where proctype=`hdb;
+	scaleprocsinstances:count each group first each ` vs/:procs; 
+	`.orch.scaleprocsinstances set ([procname:key scaleprocsinstances] instances:value scaleprocsinstances);
+	}
+
+getscaleprocsinstances[];
+
+/function to scale up or down a process
+scale:{[procname;dir]
+	if[dir=`up;op:"-u ";limitcheck:{x>=y};limit:`upper;parentproc:procname];
+	
+	if[dir=`down;op:"-d ";limitcheck:{x<=y};limit:`lower;parentproc:first ` vs procname];
+
+	if[limitcheck[scaleprocsinstances[parentproc;`instances];limits[parentproc;limit]]; .lg.o[`scale;string[limit]," limit hit for ",string parentproc]; :()];
+
+	system "bash ${TORQHOME}/scale.sh ",op,string procname;
+	/update number of process instances
+	getscaleprocsinstances[];
+	/update table with record for scaling
+	`.orch.scalingdetails upsert (.z.p;parentproc;dir;$[dir=`up;` sv parentproc,`$string .orch.scaleprocsinstances[parentproc;`instances];`];$[dir=`down;procname;`];scaleprocsinstances[parentproc;`instances];limits[parentproc;`lower];limits[parentproc;`upper]);	
+	}
+
+/function to ensure all processes have been scaled up to meet lower limit
+initialscaling:{[procname]
+	if[scaleprocsinstances[procname;`instances]<limits[procname;`lower];
+		reqinstances:limits[procname;`lower]-scaleprocsinstances[procname;`instances]; 
+		do[reqinstances;scale[procname;`up]];
+	];
+	}
+
+initialscaling@/:scaleprocslist;
diff --git a/config/processlimits.csv b/config/processlimits.csv
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9655479f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/processlimits.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+procname,lower,upper
diff --git a/config/settings/gateway.q b/config/settings/gateway.q
index 820c6c9bc..1362db942 100644
--- a/config/settings/gateway.q
+++ b/config/settings/gateway.q
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ loadprocesscode:1b              // whether to load the process specific code def
 
 // Server connection details
 \d .servers
-CONNECTIONS:`rdb`hdb		// list of connections to make at start up
+CONNECTIONS:`rdb`hdb`orchestrator		// list of connections to make at start up
 RETRY:0D00:01                   // period on which to retry dead connections.  If 0, no reconnection attempts
 
 \d .aqrest
diff --git a/scale.sh b/scale.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1f51efcc2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scale.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+usage() { echo "Usage: $0 [-u procname] or [-d procname]"; exit 1; }
+
+#input procname from cmd line
+inputprocname=$2
+#get all procnames from process.csv
+PROCNAMES="$(sed '1d' ${KDBAPPCONFIG}/process.csv | awk -F',' '{print $4}')"
+#get all procnames from customprocess.csv
+CUSTOMPROCNAMES="$(sed '1d' ${KDBAPPCONFIG}/customprocess.csv | awk -F',' '{print $4}')"
+
+if [ $# -gt 2 ] ; then
+        echo -e '\nToo many arguments.'
+elif [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then
+	if [[ "$1" == "-"* ]]; then
+		echo -e '\nProcname needed. Use: \n ' $CUSTOMPROCNAMES
+	else
+		usage
+	fi
+elif [ $# -eq 2 ] ; then
+	while getopts "ud" option;do
+		case ${option} in
+			u)
+#check for correct argument number and content:
+#check number of arguments is greater than 1
+#check if number of arguments is lower than one
+#check if inputed procname matches a procname in process.csv
+				if [ "$(echo $PROCNAMES | grep -w $inputprocname)" == "" ] ; then
+                				echo -e '\nUnavailable procname. Use: \n' $PROCNAMES
+        			else
+#get the last replica of inputed procname
+                			var=$(bash ${TORQHOME}/torq.sh procs -csv ${KDBAPPCONFIG}/customprocess.csv | grep $inputprocname | tail -n 1)
+#work out new procname based var
+                			if [ `echo $var | grep -P -o '\d' | wc -l` -lt 2 ] ; then
+                        			next=2
+                			else
+                        			next=$((${var: -1} + 1))
+                			fi
+                			newprocname="$inputprocname"."$next"
+#determine port number increment based on number of lines in the process.csv
+#if that port is already in use, increment by 1 till succesful
+                			portnum="$(wc -l < ${KDBAPPCONFIG}/process.csv)"
+                			while [ "$(netstat -an | grep "$((${KDBBASEPORT}+$portnum))" | grep -i listen)" != "" ]
+                			do
+                        			((portnum++))
+                			done
+#use the inputed procname to determine what process to replicate:
+#use configured port number and process name
+#add new process to customprocess.csv
+#starts the replicated process automatically using customprocess.csv in the -csv flag
+#run summary of all processes in customprocess.csv
+                			grep $inputprocname ${KDBAPPCONFIG}/process.csv | awk -F',' -vOFS=',' '{ $2 = "{KDBBASEPORT}+" '"$portnum"'; $4 ="'$newprocname'" }1' >> ${KDBAPPCONFIG}/customprocess.csv
+               				echo "$inputprocname replicated as $newprocname"
+                			bash ${TORQHOME}/torq.sh start $newprocname -csv ${KDBAPPCONFIG}/customprocess.csv
+                			bash ${TORQHOME}/torq.sh summary -csv ${KDBAPPCONFIG}/customprocess.csv
+       				fi
+				;;
+			d)
+				if [ "$(echo $CUSTOMPROCNAMES | grep -w $inputprocname)" ] ; then
+                			echo -e 'Shutting down process now'
+					bash ${TORQHOME}/torq.sh stop $inputprocname -csv ${KDBAPPCONFIG}/customprocess.csv
+					cp ${KDBAPPCONFIG}/customprocess.csv ${KDBAPPCONFIG}/customprocessCopy.csv
+					grep -v "$inputprocname" ${KDBAPPCONFIG}/customprocessCopy.csv >| ${KDBAPPCONFIG}/customprocess.csv
+				else
+					echo 'Process name does not match, try again'
+				fi
+				;;
+			*)
+				usage
+				;;
+		esac
+	done
+else 
+	usage
+fi
diff --git a/tests/orchestrator/customprocess.csv b/tests/orchestrator/customprocess.csv
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..74ea50f33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/orchestrator/customprocess.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+host,port,proctype,procname,U,localtime,g,T,w,load,startwithall,extras,qcmd
+localhost,{KDBBASEPORT}+1,discovery,discovery1,,1,0,,,${KDBCODE}/processes/discovery.q,1,
+localhost,{KDBBASEPORT},segmentedtickerplant,stp1,${TORQAPPHOME}/appconfig/passwords/accesslist.txt,1,0,,,${KDBCODE}/processes/segmentedtickerplant.q,1,-schemafile ${TORQAPPHOME}/database.q -tplogdir ${KDBTPLOG},
+localhost,{KDBBASEPORT}+2,hdb,hdb1,${TORQAPPHOME}/appconfig/passwords/accesslist.txt,1,1,60,4000,${KDBHDB},1,,
diff --git a/tests/orchestrator/process.csv b/tests/orchestrator/process.csv
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..74ea50f33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/orchestrator/process.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+host,port,proctype,procname,U,localtime,g,T,w,load,startwithall,extras,qcmd
+localhost,{KDBBASEPORT}+1,discovery,discovery1,,1,0,,,${KDBCODE}/processes/discovery.q,1,
+localhost,{KDBBASEPORT},segmentedtickerplant,stp1,${TORQAPPHOME}/appconfig/passwords/accesslist.txt,1,0,,,${KDBCODE}/processes/segmentedtickerplant.q,1,-schemafile ${TORQAPPHOME}/database.q -tplogdir ${KDBTPLOG},
+localhost,{KDBBASEPORT}+2,hdb,hdb1,${TORQAPPHOME}/appconfig/passwords/accesslist.txt,1,1,60,4000,${KDBHDB},1,,
diff --git a/tests/orchestrator/processlimits.csv b/tests/orchestrator/processlimits.csv
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..be16bea67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/orchestrator/processlimits.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+procname,lower,upper
+hdb1,2,3
diff --git a/tests/orchestrator/run.sh b/tests/orchestrator/run.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8a89b55c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/orchestrator/run.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+#path to test directory
+testpath=${KDBTESTS}/orchestrator
+
+OLDKDBAPPCONFIG=${KDBAPPCONFIG}
+export KDBAPPCONFIG=${testpath}
+
+#start procs
+${TORQHOME}/torq.sh start all -csv ${testpath}/customprocess.csv
+
+#Start test proc
+/usr/bin/rlwrap $QCMD ${TORQHOME}/torq.q \
+        -proctype orchestrator -procname orchestrator1 \
+        -test ${testpath} \
+        -load ${TORQHOME}/code/processes/orchestrator.q \
+        -procfile ${testpath}/customprocess.csv -debug
+
+#Shut down procs
+${TORQHOME}/torq.sh stop all -csv ${testpath}/customprocess.csv
+
+export KDBAPPCONFIG=${OLDKDBAPPCONFIG}
diff --git a/tests/orchestrator/test.csv b/tests/orchestrator/test.csv
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cdc270c5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/orchestrator/test.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+action,ms,bytes,lang,code,repeat,minver,comment
+
+run,0,0,q,\c 300 300,1,,""
+
+/test initial scaling
+true,0,0,q,.orch.scaleprocsinstances[`hdb1;`instances]=.orch.limits[`hdb1;`lower],1,,"check hdb1 scaled to lower limit upon startup"
+
+/test for scaling up func
+before,0,0,q,instancesbefore:.orch.scaleprocsinstances[`hdb1;`instances],1,,"get current instances of hdb1"
+run,0,0,q,.orch.scale[`hdb1;`up],1,,"scale up hdb1"
+run,0,0,q,instancesafter:.orch.scaleprocsinstances[`hdb1;`instances],1,,"get current instances of hdb1"
+true,0,0,q,instancesbefore<instancesafter,1,,"check instances now bigger for hdb1"
+
+/testing scaling down
+run,0,0,q,instancesbefore:.orch.scaleprocsinstances[`hdb1;`instances],1,,"get current instances of hdb1"
+run,0,0,q,.orch.scale[`hdb1.3;`down],1,,"scale down"
+run,0,0,q,instancesafter:.orch.scaleprocsinstances[`hdb1;`instances],1,,"get current instances of hdb1"
+true,0,0,q,instancesbefore>instancesafter,1,,"check instances now smaller for hdb1"
+
+/testing limits: upper then lower
+run,0,0,q,.orch.scale[`hdb1;`up],1,,"scale up"
+run,0,0,q,before:.orch.scaleprocsinstances[`hdb1;`instances],1,,"get current insatnces of hdb1"
+run,0,0,q,.orch.scale[`hdb1;`up],1,,"scaling up once more after limit is hit, to show no. instances doesn't chnage once limit hit"
+run,0,0,q,after:.orch.scaleprocsinstances[`hdb1;`instances],1,,"get current instances of hdb1"
+true,0,0,q,before=after,1,,"checking no. instances hasn't changed, so limit prevents further scaling up"
+
+run,0,0,q,.orch.scale[`hdb1.3;`down],1,,"scale down"
+run,0,0,q,before:.orch.scaleprocsinstances[`hdb1;`instances],1,,"get current insatnces of hdb1"
+run,0,0,q,.orch.scale[`hdb1.2;`down],1,,"scale down once more to show no.instances stays same, indicating can't scale lower once limit hit"
+run,0,0,q,after:.orch.scaleprocsinstances[`hdb1;`instances],1,,"get current instances of hdb1"
+true,0,0,q,before=after,1,,"checking no. instances hasn't changed, so limit prevents further scaling down"