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WorkGuru | Job Management & Inventory Management
WorkGuru.io is a comprehensive project management platform designed to streamline your operations. The platform offers a suite of tools tailored to manufacturers, including inventory management, timesheets, project forecast vs actual reporting and purchase allocation. With WorkGuru.io, you can efficiently track materials, monitor production progress, and optimise workflows to increase productivity and reduce costs. With its user-friendly interface and customisable dashboards, it's easy to adapt to your manufacturing needs, helping you achieve greater efficiency and profitability.
Pallet and tote shuttle storage system
Intelligent parcel sortation, intelligent warehousing/storage, material handling, ASRS.
Plastics Simulation & Robotics
We deliver Simulation Software for Plastics Part and Mould Design plus Modular Robots for Cross-Industry Automation.
Business challenges solved:
Manufacturing Product & Process design
3D Interactive Parts Catalogue
3D Exploded Electronic Parts Catalog is a new way to create and view your parts catalogs. The 3D exploded aspect of the electronic parts catalog enables users to view products in full 3D, allowing them to manipulate the view of the product how they need, including explosions to see exactly where parts are housed in products with precision.
Leak Testing and Automation Solutions
TQC provide special purpose, innovative turnkey solutions for all industries in manufacturing to improve your safety, throughput, efficiency and quality.
Utilising over 35 years experience, TQC design and supply assembly automation, robotics and testing equipment to global customers from the Nottingham based factory which is a one-stop-shop for bespoke automated solutions and special purpose machines.
TQC can help you by designing and suppling the complete solution tailored to your requirements.
Automation and automatic assembly machine technology
Test equipment including force, distance, vision and electrical testing
Specialists in leak testing machines, helium testing, vacuum testing
Robotic handling solutions and special purpose machines
Factory automation design to reduce Work in Progress (WIP)
Production flow, conveyors, and pallet systems
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AutoCoding System
AutoCoding Systems was founded in 2005 by a small group of coding and marking specialists who recognised the number of recurring packaging problems faced by food and beverage manufacturers. It has since grown to become a global leader in the automation of packaging lines and workflow control, with offices in the USA, UK and Australia.
We help food and drink manufacturers avoid product recalls and re-work by providing workflow software solutions for packaging verification and date code control, enabling them to eliminate errors, reduce risk and improve set-up times for product labelling and packaging. Our control monitoring and recipe deployment is well known throughout the industry and in 2021, AutoCoding Systems was acquired by JBT Corporation, a global technology solutions provider to the food and beverage industry.
Our services are scalable, ranging from entry-level coding integrity solutions to complete setup and control of all packaging line devices. AutoCoding connects to coders, barcode scanners, labellers, metal detectors, checkweighers and vision solutions, continuously monitoring and collecting data to support a seamless process and data-rich environment.
We continue to add value to our customers with our range of modular software applications in three distinct layers consisting of control, data acquisition and data reporting and visualisation. Using our modular approach, factories can progressively create smart packaging lines and error-proof primary, secondary and tertiary packaging.
Our modules enable devices and applications to work together, allowing them to communicate, share data and report on packaging performance and quality insights from our digital tools. This combination makes packaging line automation accessible and affordable. It minimises human intervention, eliminates errors and improves set-up time. Now that's smart!
Business challenges solved:
Manufacturing Process
Legacy system modernisation and custom software development
We support organisations to modernise their existing legacy systems to enable new and better capabilities and functionalities with minimal operational disruption. We offer legacy health checks to understand functionality, architecture and potential risks or limitations and recommend modernisation options that best suit your organisation's requirements. In addition, we provide a range of services to help you transform your business from software development and data integration through to customer portals.
Business challenges solved:
Enterprise Management
Digital portals for managing customers, suppliers and partners.
KDC is a digital consultancy focused on serving manufacturing and distribution business. We design and develop digital portals for managing customers, suppliers and partners. These types of digital portals help improve trading relationships and reduce costs.
Smart Services
For network and cybersecurity a co-managed modular approach to managed services combined with AIOps and Machine Learning built into modern software defined technologies, providing additional benefit and value compared with standardvendor and legacy provider offerings, that also:
• Ingests data to provide real-time anomaly detection and business impact alerting;
• Automates actions to self-heal or proactively raise an incident before impacting end-users;
• Provides access to cloud-scale analytics to find the patterns, trends and deviations in the network;
• Assesses underlay providers for circuit health and cost and software licensing for commerciality;
• Demonstrates and helps maintain compliance with many industry’s standards by continually assessing configurations;
• Leverages data to enable powerful workflows in mission critical business platforms.
Business challenges solved:
Enterprise Management
KFactory Platform
KFactory stands at the forefront of the Industry 4.0 revolution with its AI-driven platform that integrates manufacturing insights into conversational applications, enabling seamless interaction in natural language between all actors from a shopfloor.
The KFactory platform directly addresses the evolving needs of the manufacturing industry by leveraging conversational applications using advanced Artificial Intelligence. This innovative approach ensures seamless integration and analysis of diverse data sources within the factory environment, tailored to address specific challenges faced by operational managers and operational personnel on the shop floor.
Our Team of Virtual Engineers will act as an extension of the existing team, automate and optimising all operational processes to minimise losses, enhance operational efficiency, and integrate relevant data sources and business processes.
By automating tasks, performing mandatory paperwork, compiling reports, extracting data from historical documentation, offering guidelines for internal procedures - our solution allows human engineers to concentrate on higher-value tasks, thus elevating the overall productivity and quality standards of the manufacturing process. Including the KFactory platform in the current operations will bring immediate results in optimising the operational process within factory.
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