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Software for Auto Component Manufacturers

Supplying an OEM means living with someone else's schedule and someone else's documentation requirements. The operational pressure is not making the part — it is proving what you made, delivering to a rolling schedule, and keeping rejection where it needs to be.

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What makes this industry its own problem

  • Rolling customer schedules that change more often than they are honoured
  • Part-level traceability expected as a condition of supply
  • Rejection rates measured in parts per million, not percentages
  • Tooling and gauge life affecting quality and capacity
  • Multi-stage processes with in-process inspection at each
  • Documentation and audit requirements imposed by the customer

The chain

  1. Customer schedule
  2. Production plan
  3. Machining
  4. In-process inspection
  5. Final inspection
  6. Packing
  7. Despatch

The problem

Where auto components operations lose control

Written in the vocabulary your plant actually uses. If none of these sound like you, this is probably not the right page — and we would rather you knew that now.
  • 01

    Schedules maintained by hand

    A revised customer schedule arrives and is entered into a spreadsheet. Production plans from the previous version, and the gap shows up as a shortfall in a delivery window.

  • 02

    Rejection recorded, not analysed

    Rejection quantity is known. Rejection by defect type, machine, operator, shift and batch is not, so corrective action is directed at the symptom.

  • 03

    Traceability not built in

    A customer asks which batch a part came from and what its inspection record was. The answer requires a search, and sometimes the answer does not exist.

  • 04

    Rework mixed into fresh production

    Reworked parts are recorded as production, which overstates output and hides the true cost of quality.

  • 05

    Tooling and gauge life untracked

    Tool changes and gauge calibration are managed on a board or in memory, so a quality drift caused by a worn tool is diagnosed late.

  • 06

    Delivery performance measured by the customer

    Your own on-time delivery number differs from your customer's rating, and the discussion happens in a review meeting rather than in advance.

What we build

Systems for auto components operations

  • Schedule management

    Customer schedules held with their revisions, production planned against the current version, and the effect of a revision on commitments made visible immediately.

  • Part-level traceability

    Batch and, where required, part-level identity linking raw material, process, machine, operator, shift and inspection record.

  • Defect-wise rejection analysis

    Rejection captured by defect type at the stage it occurs, analysable by machine, operator, shift and batch — which is what makes corrective action land on the real cause.

  • Rework as its own route

    Rework recorded separately with its own cost, so output is not inflated and the cost of quality is visible.

  • Tooling and gauge management

    Tool life, change history, gauge calibration due dates and usage tracked against the production they influenced.

  • Inspection records and documentation

    In-process and final inspection recorded against the batch, with the documentation your customer requires produced from the record.

Automation

What runs by itself in a auto components operation

Each rule replaces a moment where somebody currently has to notice something and tell somebody else.

  • A revised customer schedule is loaded

    Affected plans and commitments are recalculated

  • Rejection crosses its threshold at a stage

    Quality and production are notified together

  • A tool reaches its life limit

    A change is raised before quality drifts

  • A gauge calibration falls due

    It is scheduled and the gauge is flagged if overdue

  • A batch is inspected

    Its record is linked for traceability and documentation

  • A delivery window is at risk

    It is flagged before the customer's system notices

None of these need a person to remember them. That is the whole point.

Management visibility

What you will be able to see

If a system does not make at least one of these visible for the first time, it has not earned its cost.
  • Schedule against production and despatch, by part and window
  • Rejection in ppm by defect, machine, operator and shift
  • Rework quantity and cost, separated from fresh output
  • Tool life and gauge calibration status
  • Traceability from despatched batch back to raw material
  • Your own on-time delivery number, measured the way your customer measures it

How it works

From operational chaos to a connected business system

Five steps, in this order, every time. The first two produce no software at all — and they are the ones that decide whether the software will be used.
  1. 01

    Understand

    We sit with each department and learn the process as it is actually run — including the workarounds, the informal exceptions and the things people do because the official way does not work. This is where most of the value of the project is decided.

    You getA written map of your current processes, departments and bottlenecks

    1–2 weeks

  2. 02

    Map

    We trace how information moves between people, departments and systems: where it is created, where it is re-entered, where it is lost, and where a decision waits on something nobody can see. The re-entry points are almost always the expensive ones.

    You getAn information flow map, with every handoff and duplication marked

    1–2 weeks

  3. 03

    Design

    We design the target workflow — owners, rules, gates, automations and the screens each role needs — and agree it with the people who will live in it. We also agree what we are deliberately not building yet, and say so plainly.

    You getA workflow design, screen list and phased build plan with scope you have signed off

    2–3 weeks

  4. 04

    Build

    We build in phases, so one department is genuinely using something early rather than waiting for a full system. Each phase is delivered, tested with real data and put into use before the next begins — which is also how the awkward details get found while they are still cheap.

    You getWorking software in real use, phase by phase, with integrations and reports

    Phased, typically 4–12 weeks per phase

  5. 05

    Optimize

    After go-live we look at what is actually being used, which alerts are being acted on and which are being ignored, where people are still keeping a parallel sheet, and what the data now reveals that nobody could see before. Then we improve it.

    You getUsage review, workflow refinements, new reports and ongoing support

    Ongoing

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Questions

Auto Components — questions we are asked

The questions that come up when we first sit down with a company in this industry.

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Can it support PPAP and customer audit requirements?

It provides the records those requirements rest on — process parameters, inspection results, traceability, tool and gauge history, and an audit trail. Compiling a specific PPAP submission remains your quality team's work, but it becomes an extraction from the system rather than a data-collection project.

Do you handle part-level traceability or only batch level?

Both. Batch-level is sufficient for most components and cheaper to operate; part-level serialisation is supported where your customer requires it. We would rather implement batch-level well than part-level badly, and we will say which your situation actually needs.

Can it import customer schedules automatically?

Usually yes, depending on what your customer sends. Fixed-format files and portal downloads can be imported and reconciled against the previous version so the change, not just the new schedule, is visible. EDI is possible where your customer supports it.

How does it help reduce rejection?

By making rejection analysable. Capturing defect type at the stage it occurs, against machine, operator, shift and batch, turns a monthly rejection figure into a ranked list of causes — and that list is what corrective action can actually be aimed at.

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Where to go next

The solutions most often built for companies in this industry.

Other industries

We work across operational businesses

Different products, the same underlying structure — departments, handoffs and data that has to survive both.

Next step

Your business has a process. Let's turn it into a system.

From manual workflows and disconnected departments to connected operations, automated processes and real-time visibility.

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