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How it worksAll industries
Process and conversion
Every order is a project, and the estimate is the target.
Engineer-to-order bills of material, long-lead procurement, cost against estimate, stage inspection, and milestone billing.
Where the standard system leaves the cost in place.
Capital equipment is built to order, which means the bill of material is still being drawn while procurement is already committing money. Design changes mid-build, long-lead items are ordered against a schedule that moves, and the only number that matters, cost against estimate, is usually calculated after the machine has shipped. By then the project is either profitable or it is not, and nothing can be done about it. The common thread is that cost is known too late to be managed.
- The bill of material is issued in stages from design, so procurement works from drawings and email rather than from a released structure.
- Committed cost is not visible until invoices arrive, so a project overruns quietly for weeks.
- Design revisions during the build are absorbed by the shop floor without the cost impact being attributed anywhere.
- Stage inspections and third-party clearances are chased manually, and a missed hold point delays dispatch.
- Milestone billing, advances, retention, and liquidated damages are tracked in a spreadsheet held by one person in commercial.
Built for heavy engineering.
Built on the same core our products run on, extended with the records and rules this sector is actually judged against. These are scopes we build and integrate, not shelf modules with a licence key.
Engineer-to-order structures
Project bills of material released in stages with revision control, so procurement and production work from a controlled structure while design is still progressing.
Long-lead procurement against milestones
Requirements dated from the project schedule rather than from a fixed lead time, with expediting driven by what the build actually needs next.
Cost against estimate, live
Committed, incurred, and forecast cost held against the estimate at project and work package level, so an overrun is a warning rather than a post-mortem.
Stage inspection and hold points
Inspection and test plans with customer and third-party hold points, clearances recorded against the stage, and dispatch gated on the ones that have not closed.
Milestone billing and contract terms
Advances, milestone invoices, retention, and liquidated damages tracked against the contract, with recovery and release calculated rather than remembered.
Erection, commissioning and after sales
Site activity, commissioning records, spares, warranty, and maintenance contracts held against the delivered machine, so the service business has a system rather than a filing cabinet.
What it has to be able to prove.
Compliance fails when it is a parallel activity. These obligations are carried by the system that runs the operation, so the evidence exists because of how work was recorded rather than because someone assembled it afterwards.
Inspection and test plan evidence
Stage-wise inspection records, third-party clearance certificates, and the documentation dossier handed over with the equipment, assembled from records captured during the build.
Contractual obligation tracking
Warranty periods, retention release dates, performance guarantees, and delivery obligations held against the contract so they are actioned rather than discovered.
Project tax treatment
Advances, progressive billing, retention, and deductions handled in a way that keeps statutory reporting consistent with the commercial reality of a long project.
What it runs on.
The sector layer is built. The operational core underneath it is not a proposal: it is running in production with clients today.
ERPMachERPLiveProject-oriented procurement, production, cost control, and finance, extended with the estimate, milestone, and stage inspection structures capital equipment work needs.See what it does
SIMSMach SIMSLive with clientsProject-allocated stock, long-lead item control, site material, and movement history across works and site locations.See what it does
What it returns.
Overruns surface while the project is running
Committed cost against estimate is visible per work package, not after final invoicing.
Design change stops being absorbed silently
Revisions carry a cost and schedule impact that is attributed to the project rather than to general overhead.
Dispatch is not held by paperwork
Stage clearances and the handover dossier are assembled from records captured during the build.
Where this normally starts.
Which of these applies depends on how well the constraint is already understood. A review that finds the real one usually turns into a build.
Systems consulting
An operating review that ends with a costed, sequenced plan you can act on with or without us.
How it worksQuestions we actually get asked.
Every machine we build is different. Can a system handle that variability?
It has to be built for it, which is precisely why standard manufacturing software struggles here. The system is structured around the project rather than around a repeating part number, so a one-off build is the normal case rather than an exception to be worked around.
How do you track cost against estimate when the design is still changing?
By separating the estimate, the commitment, and the actual, and by making revisions explicit events rather than silent edits. The estimate stays as the baseline it was approved as, and the variance tells you what the changes cost.
Our site teams work where connectivity is poor. Does that limit us?
No. Site capture is built to work offline and reconcile when a connection is available, because commissioning records and site material consumption are worth more than the convenience of assuming a network.