Manufacturing · UK
Microsoft Power Platform for UK Manufacturers
Manufacturers run on paper, spreadsheets, and disconnected line-of-business systems far longer than they should. We replace those with Power Apps on the shop floor, Power Automate between systems, and Power BI in the production meeting, without ripping out the ERP you already paid for.
Shop-Floor Apps
Offline-capable tablet apps
Quality & NCR
Digital inspection records
Maintenance
Asset and downtime tracking
Production BI
OEE and yield dashboards
The Problem
Challenges We See Across Manufacturing
The patterns below come up in almost every manufacturing conversation we have. If two or more sound familiar, there is usually a quick win available.
Paper travellers and clipboard inspections
Quality records captured on paper are slow to find, easy to lose, and impossible to analyse. Audit preparation becomes a manual archaeology exercise across filing cabinets.
ERP that nobody wants to touch
Your ERP holds the master data but is too rigid, too expensive, or too slow to change for day-to-day operational needs, so teams work around it in Excel.
No single view of production performance
OEE, scrap rates, and downtime live in separate systems and spreadsheets, so performance conversations start with arguing about whose numbers are right.
Maintenance is reactive, not planned
Asset history sits in engineers' heads and paper logbooks, so failures are a surprise and planned maintenance slips whenever the line gets busy.
What We Build
Power Platform Solutions for Manufacturing
Built on Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Copilot Studio, and Dataverse, inside your own Microsoft tenant.
Shop-Floor Power Apps
Tablet and handheld apps designed for gloved hands and poor Wi-Fi, job booking, batch records, inspection capture, and stock movements that sync when the connection returns.
Quality & Non-Conformance Automation
Digital inspection plans, automatic NCR raising, containment workflows, and CAPA tracking, with a full audit trail for ISO 9001 and customer audits.
Maintenance & Asset Management
Planned maintenance schedules, breakdown reporting from the line, spares consumption, and asset history in Dataverse, with Power BI showing MTBF and downtime causes.
ERP & MES Integration
Power Automate connectors and custom connectors that move data between your ERP, MES, and the apps your teams actually use, no double keying, no overnight CSV imports.
Production Intelligence in Power BI
OEE, yield, scrap, and throughput dashboards fed from live data, on screens in the factory and on phones for the leadership team.
Copilot Studio for Operations
AI agents that answer standard operating procedure questions, guide new starters through processes, and raise maintenance requests conversationally from Teams.
Typical Projects
Where Manufacturing Organisations Usually Start
Focused first projects that deliver a visible result quickly, then extend once the approach is proven.
Digital quality inspections
Replace paper inspection sheets with a Power App that enforces the inspection plan, captures photos of defects, and raises non-conformances automatically.
Inspection records searchable in seconds instead of hours
Downtime capture at the line
Operators log stoppages against standard reason codes on a tablet at the machine, feeding a live Power BI downtime Pareto.
Root-cause conversations backed by real data
Supplier non-conformance workflow
Automated supplier NCR notifications, response deadlines, and escalation, with a supplier portal built on Power Pages.
Supplier issues closed within agreed SLAs
Engineering change requests
Structured ECR submission, impact assessment, and multi-stage approval in Power Automate, replacing email chains and shared drives.
Change history traceable for audit
Governance
Compliance & Data Considerations
Everything we build runs inside your own Microsoft 365 tenant, under the controls you already operate.
ISO 9001 audit trails
Dataverse records every create, update, and approval with user and timestamp, so quality management system evidence is a report, not a project.
Data stays in your tenant
Everything runs inside your own Microsoft 365 tenant under your existing Entra ID, conditional access, and data loss prevention policies.
UK data residency
Dataverse environments and Power BI capacity provisioned in the UK South and UK West regions where your policy requires it.
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Power Platform for Manufacturing: Frequently Asked Questions
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Talk to Someone Who Knows Manufacturing
Book a free consultation. We will look at the process causing you the most pain, tell you honestly whether Power Platform is the right answer, and scope it if it is.
