Manufacturing & Industrial
Software for operations that run on precision
Structured product data, deep ERP integration, and platforms your customers will actually use on a plant floor. Including one we built ourselves.
Where we tend to help
Manufacturers rarely need a nicer website. They need the product data untangled, the systems talking, and something their customers can use with one hand while holding a part in the other.
What you get
- Complex product catalogues turned into structured, searchable data
- ERP, CRM and supply chain integration, including the custom pieces
- Configurators that price and quote live from your own catalogue
- Dealer, distributor and customer portals with account-level pricing
- AI where it earns its place: search, support and content workflows
- Built on AWS, GCP or Azure, wherever your data already lives
A product we built
CrateScan
Scan the part. Skip the phone tag.
Industrial re-ordering still runs on phone calls, emailed photos of nameplates, and somebody's memory of what they ordered last spring. CrateScan replaces that with a barcode and a browser. We designed, built and now run it, which is also the clearest answer we have to what we can do for a manufacturer.
01
Scan
A technician points a phone at the barcode on the component. It runs in the browser, so there is nothing to install and nothing to train.
02
Identify
The barcode resolves against your catalogue and returns photos, specs, install docs, the kits it belongs to, and that customer's negotiated price.
03
Re-order
One tap sends a structured quote request, with quantity and facility, straight into your queue. No phone tag, no photo of a nameplate.
What it includes
- A branded customer portal: your logo, colours and pricing
- Barcode indexing for instant part resolution
- Kit and assembly explosion from a single scan
- Structured RFQ workflow with quantity and facility
- Multi-site customer account management
- Browser-based on mobile, with nothing to install
Standards it speaks
- Barcodes: CODE 128, EAN, UPC and QR
- EDI 840 for the request for quote
- EDI 843 for the quote back
- EDI 850 for the purchase order
Built for fluid power and hydraulics, material handling and conveyor, packaging machinery, compressed air and filtration, and bearings and power transmission.
Capabilities
Product data
The unglamorous part that decides everything.
- Catalogue modelling for deep and irregular product ranges
- Spec sheets, install docs and assets attached where they belong
- Kit and assembly relationships made explicit
- Search that understands part numbers, not just words
- Migration off spreadsheets without losing the exceptions
Integration
Where the hours actually go.
- ERP and CRM integration, including custom middleware
- EDI transaction sets for quoting and ordering
- Inventory and pricing sync, including account-level pricing
- SSO for dealer and distributor access
- Cloud architecture on AWS, GCP or Azure
Customer-facing
What your buyers and techs touch.
- Configurators that price live from real catalogue data
- Dealer and distributor portals
- Barcode re-ordering via CrateScan
- 3D product visualisation for parts hard to photograph
- Enterprise sites on Craft CMS
Client work
Built for this sector.
Lumber Marketplace
A marketplace for an industry that ran on phone calls
Universal Lighting
A configurator that sells the catalogue for you
We also rebuilt Mann Welding. For the other sectors we work in, see industries we serve.
Our Approach
01
Get at the data
Catalogue, pricing, inventory and the spreadsheets running alongside them. Nothing downstream is real until we know what condition this is in.
02
Model the product
Parts, kits, assemblies and the exceptions that break every clean schema. Modelled properly now rather than patched around for years.
03
Map the integrations
Which systems hold the truth, what they will hand over, and what has to be built because they will not.
04
Prototype the thing customers touch
Configurator, portal or scanner, in front of an actual buyer or technician early, because plant-floor reality is not a conference-room opinion.
05
Build and integrate
The platform and the connections together, with the failure modes handled rather than discovered.
06
Run it
Monitoring, patching and an agreed response time. Industrial customers do not tolerate a quoting system being down.
What you get
A manufacturing engagement is judged on whether it survives contact with your systems and your customers. These are the pieces that make that likely.
- Product data model and migration
- Integration architecture and middleware
- Configurator, portal or CrateScan deployment
- EDI transaction handling
- Account-level pricing and multi-site accounts
- Cloud infrastructure and environments
- Documentation for your team
- Support agreement with a response time
Got a catalogue problem?That is usually where we start.
Ask About Your Project
Questions, answered.
- Is CrateScan a product we buy, or something you build for us?
- It is a whitelabel platform. You get a branded portal with your logo, your colours and your negotiated pricing, running on the CrateScan engine, so you are not paying to have barcode resolution invented again from scratch.
- Do our customers have to install an app?
- No. The scanner runs in the phone browser. That is the entire reason it gets used: a maintenance tech on a plant floor will not install anything, and asking them to is how these systems die.
- Which barcodes does it read?
- CODE 128, EAN, UPC and QR. Between them that covers the labelling on most industrial components already in the field, which matters because you cannot relabel a customer's installed base.
- Will it talk to our ERP?
- It speaks the EDI transaction sets the workflow needs: 840 for the RFQ, 843 for the quote, 850 for the purchase order. Beyond that we integrate directly, which is most of what we do on manufacturing projects anyway.
- What if a scanned part belongs to an assembly?
- It explodes the kit. Scanning one component shows the assembly it belongs to and everything else in it, which is usually where the additional order value turns up.
- We do not need re-ordering. Do you do other manufacturing work?
- Yes, and most of it is not CrateScan. Product configurators, dealer and customer portals, ERP and CRM integration, and enterprise sites built on structured product data. CrateScan is on this page because it is the clearest example of the thinking, not because it is the only offer.
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