Manufacturing
Technology designed around the reality of your operations.
Your costing sheet was built once; your shop floor changes every day. Between the purchase order and the dispatch invoice sits work in progress that nobody can see.
Operational areas
- Work orders
- WIP
- Inventory
- Quality
- Costing
How we work here
A system built around your floor
Custom systems built around your shop floor
One afternoon
A job is quoted from a costing sheet built two years ago. Material leaves the store. Three machines touch it. Two pieces are rejected and quietly remade on the evening shift. The invoice goes out showing twenty-two per cent margin. What the margin actually was, nobody in the building can say.
Manufacturing businesses manage a constant flow of
- Quotations
- Sales orders
- Bills of material
- Material issues
- Job cards
- Machine time
- Work in progress
- Rework
- Finished goods
- Costing
The operation
How the business runs — and where it stops being visible
Every stage produces information. The problem is rarely any single stage; it is that they never meet. The marked stages are where the record either stops, or stops being trusted.
Quotation
Sales order
Production plan
Material issue
Material leaves stores and becomes work in progress nobody can value
Job cards
Actual time against a job is recorded on paper, if at all
Machining
Inspection
Rework consumes machine hours that never reach the job's cost
Finished goods
Dispatch
Where it breaks
The problems that cost real money
Not the ones a brochure lists. The ones that come up when you sit with the person doing the work.
Work in progress is invisible
Material has left the store and product has not reached finished goods. Where it is, how much there is, and what it is worth are three questions with no fast answer.
Standard cost and actual cost quietly separate
The sheet assumes a yield, a cycle time and a rejection rate. Nobody measures the real ones, so quoted margin and earned margin drift apart for years without anyone noticing.
Rework is consumed twice and recorded once
Material, machine hours and labour spent again, usually booked as normal production, usually on a shift when the person who would have asked about it had gone home.
Purchase runs on shortage instead of plan
Indents raised when the store runs out. The business alternates between stockouts that halt a line and inventory that ties up cash it needed elsewhere.
What changes
How we approach it
Manufacturing varies too much for one product to fit honestly. A fabrication job shop, a plastics moulding unit and a food processing line share almost no workflow. So we walk the floor, map the process as it actually runs, and build to that. We reuse what is proven from our other systems where it genuinely applies, and build the rest.
How we work here
Not every business fits a product.
Most manufacturing operations work differently enough that a product would be the wrong answer. We design the system around the floor as it actually runs.
Custom & enterprise
Built around your operation
Delivered as a custom system rather than an off-the-shelf product. That is a deliberate choice, not a gap in the portfolio: no two shop floors sequence the same way, and a product that assumed one would be wrong for everyone else.
Our approach
However it gets built, it starts the same way
We spend time in the operation before proposing anything. The first three stages finish before a single screen is designed.
Understand
How the business actually works
Analyse
Where time, money and clarity are lost
Research
What the better way forward looks like
Design
Workflows, data and interfaces
Build
Modern, maintainable technology
Evolve
Improve as the business changes
Let's understand your operation.
Tell us how the business runs today and where it becomes difficult. We'll start there.