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Tricorn Production Control Software
Tricorn is a user friendly, easy to use production control system that is quick to implement, and helps you streamline manufacturing operations from quotation to invoice and generate ROI quickly. Supporting more than 280 UK manufacturers, it's perfect for SMEs of all sizes.

Location: North West, North East, East Midlands, London, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South East, West of England, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire & The Humber, East Anglia

Treatment MRP System - DNAsp
DNAsp is the UK's leading production control software for treatment houses. It's manages unique operations of treatments and is adaptable for Heat Treating, Plating, Anodising, and more, to provide the flexibility and agility needed for the fast paced metal finishing industry.

Location: North West, North East, East Midlands, London, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South East, West of England, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire & The Humber, East Anglia

Transforming business
Business improvement and transformation by linking technology, processes, and organisational structure to goals and strategy.

Location: North West, Wales, West Midlands

Track, Visualise and Manage Production
Elements Docket is multi-award winning production tracking and management software for SME manufacturers. It combines order tracking (using a mobile app and contactless technology), quality control features, a live view of WIP, shop-floor data collection, and automated order digitisation (amongst a mix of other time-saving and value-creating features). It requires no sensors or complicated hardware, which means that it can be tried out in half an hour, and fully implemented across a business in less than a week.

Location: North West, North East, East Midlands, London, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South East, West of England, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire & The Humber, East Anglia

Track & plan production schedules
With multiple machines and new jobs coming in, it can difficult to organise your resources to optimise production scheduling. The Fitfactory Scheduler intelligently plans in jobs according to live capacity availability to optimise resources and achieve delivery efficiencies and cost targets.

Location: North West, North East, East Midlands, London, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South East, West of England, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire & The Humber, East Anglia

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Traceability & Weighing Systems
Stevens Traceability specialises in traceability and weighing systems that support you in meeting your compliance obligations, whilst reducing product giveaway and waste. Remove paper from your factory, and access reports and data at any point of production at the touch of a button.

Location: North West, North East, East Midlands, London, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South East, West of England, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire & The Humber, East Anglia, South West

Business challenges solved:
Manufacturing Infrastructure
Thingstel Platform
At Thingstel we have capability of offering and end to end solution for Industrial use cases that include Remote Process Monitoring, Asset (Machine) Management and Maintenance, Alert/Notifications for Threshold, Reports for accessing historical production, notification and downtime reports.

Location: North West, North East, East Midlands, London, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South East, West of England, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire & The Humber, East Anglia

The Optimized Inventory Analytics Application
Inventory Analytics solution to help manufacturing companies to ‘Right Size’ their inventory investment, reduce costs and improve customer service. Our solution works along side your existing ERP system and typically delivers inventory reductions of between 10-25% in year 1.

Location: North West, North East, East Midlands, London, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South East, West of England, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire & The Humber

The next generation, affordable ERP system
ERP, Industry 4.0, Supply Chain, Paperless Shop floor, Net Zero, Smart Factory, Factory of the Future, Digital Transformation, and SaaS - Our innovative solution provides real-time transparency of shop floor and carbon data capture as a digital data thread throughout the entire supply chain.

Location: North West, North East, East Midlands, London, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South East, West of England, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire & The Humber, East Anglia, South West

Business challenges solved:
Enterprise Management
The HAL Robotics Framework

The HAL Robotics Framework is a portable, extensible and vendor-agnostic middleware for modelling, programming, simulating and monitoring processes involving industrial machines. The Framework can be integrated into CAD software, run in embedded systems or anywhere in between.

Location: West Midlands, East Anglia, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South East, East Midlands, London, North East, Wales, West of England, Yorkshire & The Humber, North West

Business challenges solved:
Manufacturing Product & Process design
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