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Besyncly
Besyncly is a secure integration platform that enables businesses to integrate their systems together including their ecommerce platforms.
Besyncly offers plugin integrations for a variety of systems – some ‘out of the box’, others requiring some upfront configuration – allowing you to create connections and share data between both your cloud and on-premise systems.
These smart plugins give you the freedom to import and export key data from one system to another automatically, at intervals which suit you.
This facility removes the need for manual entry and the duplication of tasks within your business, resulting in huge time savings, letting you and your staff focus on core responsibilities.
Automating these processes also ensures data accuracy, ensuring processes run smoothly and you deliver outstanding service to your customers.
Fliweel Tech - AI and automation
Fliweel.tech is an award winning AI and automation consultancy helping manufacturers remove repetitive, manual tasks and unlock smarter ways of working.
We began our journey over three years ago, before the ChatGPT era, delivering real world machine learning solutions that made a measurable impact.
From automating document extraction and saving hundreds of hours, to using vision AI for object detection, to enabling predictive maintenance through data analytics, our results speak for themselves.
Whether your business is starting from scratch or scaling existing systems, we meet you where you are. Our solutions connect smoothly with ERP platforms, cloud tools and on site operations, so you can modernise without disruption.
We focus on outcomes. That means delivering automation that improves productivity, reduces errors and supports better decision making. Our clients free up their teams to focus on higher value work like innovation, quality and growth.
We work closely with manufacturing teams across operations, IT and leadership to ensure every solution is grounded in your real world challenges and aligned to your goals.
Business challenges solved:
Operations Management
MRP and MES Software
We’re helping more than 400 factories through their digital transformation to improve processes and get real-time insights from their business.
Streamline your production with easy-to-use MRP and MES software designed for UK engineering and manufacturing businesses. Whether you’re implementing your first production planning system or enhancing existing workflows, Fitfactory provides the tools to improve efficiency, accuracy, and visibility across your operations.
Gain control with optimised production scheduling, precise labour tracking, and real-time machine monitoring, helping you reduce downtime, cut costs, and maximise productivity. At Fitfactory, our Manufacturing Execution System (MES) gives you full visibility and control over your production processes with real-time machine monitoring, advanced scheduling, and shop floor data capture, available as a complete package or as standalone modules to suit your needs.
By automating data synchronisation, tracking WIP in real time, and ensuring full audit traceability, you can reduce waste, improve delivery performance, and increase capacity, without needing additional machinery. Accessible on mobile, desktop, and tablet, with open API integration our MES keeps your factory connected and adaptable.
Whether you’re taking your first step to go paperless, or implementing IoT through your business, we’re here to guide and support you on your digital transformation journey. With decades of experience innovating, delivering and supporting manufacturing software, our team of experts are always on-hand to guide you step-by-step on your digital journey.
Managed SOC
Aruga Cyber provides the next generation of managed cyber security services, designed for businesses of all sizes.
By combining the power of AI and automation, backed by human expertise, our service delivers unparalleled efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. Detecting and mitigating cyber threats swiftly; we empower businesses to confidently stay ahead of continuously evolving cyber risks.
Business challenges solved:
Cyber Security
Innovative and cost-effective engineering solutions
Parmley Graham and CBM Logix deployed Sawyer cobots from Rethink Robotics to automate print scanning in Edinburgh. The user-friendly robots work 24/7, scanning 5,000+ prints daily. Each cobot operates in a cleanroom, enabling efficient, lights-out digitisation of Commonwealth imagery.
Business challenges solved:
Assembly
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Digital Marketing Services
We’re a Newcastle based search marketing agency.
We scale 7 and 8 figure B2B brands across the globe into marketing leaders with data-Informed SEO, PPC, Analytics, and Content with measurable ROI.
Business challenges solved:
Marketing
Master Proceess Mapping Workshop - find continuous improvement opportunities.
Map your end-to-end customer journey.
Take time out with your colleagues to take a fresh look at the way you do business. Our Master Process Workshops will get you thinking about every aspect of your day-to-day operation, the way you work together, those you depend on and how you care for your customers.
Work together to celebrate success, identify potential points of failure and find opportunities to create new ways of working.
A health check at the heart of your business
• Map your customer journey from end-to-end
• Understand dependencies, points of failure, inefficiencies and opportunities
• Discuss the issues causing you the most pain
• Collaborate to create business solutions
• Discover ways to optimise your operational approach
Actionable outcomes to enable transformation
• Quick wins for immediate impact and strengthened peer relationships
• A focus on what needs to be done, by when, by who
• Led by an ethos of great customer service outcomes
• Proportionate to you, your business, your budget
• Placing your people at the heart of the solution
• Effective processes, the best use of your systems
You might consider a Master Process Workshop if you have
• A feeling that things could be better
• A rise in complaints or costs
• Problems meeting demand or rapid growth
• Systems that feel clunky or unfit for purpose
• Missed objectives or unhappy people
• Cash flow challenges
Short Term Technology Rental
Hire Intelligence specialise in short-term technology rental across the UK, offering a wide range of equipment including powerful workstations, portable hardware and AV solutions. Whether it's for training, process improvement, testing or remote connectivity, we provide both dry hire and fully managed services—tailored to meet tight deadlines and fluctuating needs.
Process Automation System Integrators
As a team of experienced system integrators, we stand out in our field, as we can claim that our engineers all have proficiency in hardware, software/coding and instrumentation. These multi-discipline standards for staff development mean that when you work with Process Group, you receive a more efficient offering. We can support several popular platforms including Siemens, Honeywell, ABB, Emerson, and more, as well as legacy systems. Our capabilities extend to design/implementation, maintenance, re-configuration, shutdowns, and upgrades/obsolescence, as well as delivering the associated training to on-site personnel providing the option for full handover, or ongoing support under an SLA.
Business challenges solved:
System Integration
CoolSpools
CoolSpools for IBM i (AS400) gives you the power to convert spooled files and database files to physical file formats, including PDF, Excel, CSV, and XML. The software helps users move away from paper-based reports. It also saves time and money by automating the distribution of essential information in electronic formats, including via email. CoolSpools also includes a sophiostaced spool file manager that allows you to:
- Convert files into PDF, Excel, XML, Text and HTML formats
- Manage email distribution for easy reporting
CoolSpools is driving data modernisation for hundreds of organisations running IBM i / AS400 servers worldwide.
Download the CoolSpools suite free for 30 days, and get access to support and updates while you evaluate the software. Alternatively, book a one-to-one demonstration of CoolSpools with an IBM i solutions expert.
Business challenges solved:
Data Analysis & Reporting
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