Manufacturing
Material certificates, customer approvals and traceability, branch by branch.
Automotive
Aerospace
Shipbuilding
Rail
Metallurgy and steel
Machining
Machinery and capital goods
- Document control in manufacturingStart hereYou sit mid-chain: you receive certificates and have to issue your own.
- Selling machinery: the documentation that goes with itGoing furtherWhat you hand over with the machine stays with you for its whole working life.
- The inspections that fall due by calendarGoing furtherNobody skips an inspection on purpose. They get missed because the reminder lived in the head of whoever retired.
- Plant shutdowns and industrial maintenanceAdvancedTwo hundred people from twenty different companies, all arriving the same morning.
- Who assembles the machine and puts their name on itAdvancedYou buy components from twelve suppliers and sell a machine. Twelve sets of papers do not add up to yours.
Component manufacturing
- Machinery and equipment certificatesGoing furtherTracking paperwork attached to a machine rather than a person.
- Manufacturing and industrial supplyGoing furtherMaterial certificates, customer approvals and traceability by batch.
- The stockist who doesn't manufactureGoing furtherYou buy, cut to size and sell. You manufacture nothing, and yet you are the link where the certificate gets lost.
Chemicals
Petrochemicals
Plastics and rubber
Pharmaceuticals
Biotechnology
Electronics
- The distributor who only resells and still answersGoing furtherYou buy finished goods and sell them untouched. You are the only link the customer knows by name, and that is enough.
- Electronics and component substitutionAdvancedA component goes end-of-life and must be swapped. Documentation does not travel with the function: it travels with the part number.