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Low Code Platform
Meritec helps engineering firms replace outdated, paper-heavy processes with streamlined digital workflows that enhance efficiency and compliance. Our integrated automation solutions reduce admin, improve job tracking, and ensure accurate, real-time data across your operations. With proven results across the sector, we deliver scalable tech built to support complex projects and sustainable growth.
Website & Web App Design & Development
Website and web app design & development for manufacturing SMEs. Modern WordPress builds, redesigns and integrations to improve enquiries, credibility and efficiency—backed by reliable hosting, maintenance, and ongoing optimisation.
Business challenges solved:
Manufacturing Infrastructure
Apparatus
Apparatus helps manufacturers sell and serve customers digitally by connecting ERP and legacy systems into a single B2B ordering and account portal—automating orders, pricing, approvals and data flow to reduce manual work and scale operations efficiently.
Business challenges solved:
Enterprise Management
Ignite AI
AI voice and SMS agents respond to manufacturing enquiries within 60 seconds, 24/7. Qualifies leads, captures specifications, books sales appointments. UK manufacturers achieve 70-91% call automation and 8x ROI within 90 days. One of the biggest revenue losses are missed opportunities, this can remove that.
Business challenges solved:
Enterprise Management
Manualy
Manualy is a digital operations platform that helps businesses standardise, manage, and scale their processes across service, manufacturing, and multi-site operations. It replaces static SOPs, spreadsheets, and paper-based systems with a single, structured source of truth for operational knowledge and task execution.
Manualy enables teams to build clear, step-by-step procedures organised by departments, roles, and workflows. In manufacturing environments, this includes production processes, quality control checks, equipment setup, health and safety procedures, and shift handovers. Tasks can be assigned with clear accountability, ensuring consistency across operators, shifts, and sites.
Built-in version control ensures that process updates, specification changes, and compliance requirements are tracked and instantly rolled out, reducing risk from outdated instructions. Multimedia support allows images, videos, and documents to be embedded directly into procedures, improving training speed and reducing errors on the production floor.
Role-based permissions ensure operators, supervisors, and managers have appropriate access, while leadership maintains full oversight and approval control. Manualy’s timelines help teams stay on schedule with recurring tasks, audits, and maintenance routines.
An integrated AI assistant allows users to quickly find procedures, troubleshoot issues, and understand tasks in real time especially valuable in fast-paced manufacturing and operational environments. Designed to be intuitive, mobile-friendly, and scalable, Manualy supports growing businesses looking to improve efficiency, compliance, training consistency, and operational resilience across both service and manufacturing operations.
Business challenges solved:
Enterprise Management
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Boex
Boex is a UK-focused digital trade platform that helps companies move goods faster and safer by connecting exporters, importers, freight forwarders and banks, enabling electronic trade documents, secure workflows and real-time collaboration to cut cost, risk and friction across global supply chains.
Business challenges solved:
Enterprise Management
MATICS
Matics is a real-time operational excellence platform designed to help manufacturers improve productivity, reduce downtime, and increase overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) using live shop-floor data.
The platform connects to existing production equipment and manufacturing systems to collect real-time data on machine status, production output, downtime, and quality. This data is consolidated into a single, real-time view of operations without replacing existing systems or disrupting shop-floor processes.
Delivered as a scalable SaaS solution, Matics can be implemented incrementally and is well suited to manufacturers at different stages of their digital transformation journey, particularly in FMCG, food, beverage, and process manufacturing environments.
Business challenges solved:
Manufacturing Infrastructure
Hosted VoIP and Internet services
We offer hosted VoIP Telephony , Internet connections including dedicated leased lines and mobile phones.
Business challenges solved:
Manufacturing Infrastructure
RBTX: Accessible, low-cost automation providing SMEs with rapid ROI
RBTX offers over 600 pre-tested application templates and "all-in-one" packages.
These are curated to solve specific industrial tasks such as:
• Pick and Place: Automated handling and sorting of items.
• Machine Tending: Loading and unloading CNC or injection moulding machines.
• Quality Control: Automated inspection using vision systems.
Palletising: Stacking goods for shipment (with dedicated XL, L, and fixed-size solutions).
Specialised Tasks: Including gluing, dispensing, bin-picking, and laboratory automation.
2. The "Test Before Invest" Service
To eliminate the risk of purchasing unsuitable hardware, RBTX provides a feasibility testing service. Customers can send their specific parts and task descriptions to the RBTX customer testing area in Northampton. Experts then perform a live trial, providing the customer with a video of the application in action and a fixed-price quotation for the required components.
3. Online Configuration Tools
The platform features several digital tools to help users design their own systems:
Machine Planner: A web-based configurator that allows users to assemble robots, grippers, and accessories while ensuring 100% compatibility between parts.
Specialist Configurators: Tools specifically for designing 7th axes, gantry robots, and cobot setups.
4. Expert Support (RBTXpert)
Even though the platform is designed for SME automation, RBTX provides free "RBTXpert" video consultations.
During these sessions, engineers help users define their requirements, select the most cost-effective components, and finalise a fixed-price offer for the entire hardware and integration effort.
The overall goal of these capabilities is to provide a "plug-and-program" experience that allows companies to deploy automation in days rather than months, typically with an investment between £3k and £30k and a return on investment in less than a year.
Business challenges solved:
Manufacturing Product & Process design
Manufacturing Product & Process design
Manufacturing Product & Process design
Odoo ERP
Stop battling fragmented legacy systems. We build the "Single Platform" factory of the future. much. consulting replaces the chaos of disconnected spreadsheets, paper-based processes, and old servers with Odoo, a unified, cloud-native Industry 4.0 platform. We don't just install ERP; we architect a GAMP 5 compliant digital backbone that connects your shop floor hardware directly to your bottom line.
Our core capabilities bridge the "Air Gap" by retrofitting legacy machines (via RS-232/OPC-UA) with Odoo IoT Boxes to capture real-time OEE and cycle data, eliminating manual entry. We connect Odoo directly to AGVs and automated storage systems, acting as the "central brain" for your warehouse operations—from Goods In to Despatch. On the line, our "Shop Floor" tablet app digitises travelers and enforces SOPs at every station, preventing "pencil-whipping" and ensuring data integrity (ALCOA+). Furthermore, we embed AI-driven intelligence into your daily workflows, handling tasks from OCR invoice scanning to predictive maintenance. Unlike multi-year enterprise projects, our agile methodology delivers a functional system in just 3 to 6 months, specialising in high-compliance sectors including Automotive (APQP), Aerospace (AS9100), and Pharma (EU GMP Annex 11 & FDA 21 CFR).
Business challenges solved:
Enterprise Management
Manufacturing Infrastructure
Manufacturing Process
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