Your machines run on their own.
Your offices don't.
Data retyped from one system into another, a monthly report rebuilt in Excel, quotes typed again from scratch, follow-ups forgotten. In an industrial SME these tasks eat entire days that nobody ever decided to spend. We find them, we automate them on the tools you already use, and we give you the time back.
* Free as soon as an engagement follows. If none does, the day and the travel are invoiced. The written report is yours either way.
We work with your tools, not against them
Your days disappear into work that creates nothing.
Three situations found in almost every industrial SME between 20 and 150 people.
The delivery note is retyped into the ERP, the invoice re-entered into accounting, the hours copied again into a spreadsheet. Every copy costs time and manufactures a possible error.
The monthly review takes two to five days of rebuilding in Excel. By the time it lands, the decision was made three weeks earlier, without it.
An administrative role fully loaded costs €35,000 to €45,000 a year and three months of recruitment. For repetitive work a machine does without mistakes and without getting bored.
These tasks don't call for one more employee. They call for automation.
What we automate
Six areas that come up in almost every plant.
We take one, measure it, automate it. Then the next one, if you want it.
Data entry and matching
Delivery notes, supplier invoices, order confirmations: read, checked and pushed into the ERP without anyone retyping a single line.
Management reporting
Revenue, margin per job, hours sold against hours spent, variances. Produced on its own, on a fixed date, in the format you already read.
Quotes and pricing
Recurring quotes priced from your own pricing rules, prepared in minutes instead of half a day, and always reviewed by you before they go out.
Sales follow-up and outreach
Quotes left unanswered, customers who ordered every quarter and stopped, tender notices in your sector. Not mass emailing: the follow-ups you would have made if you had had the time.
Production tracking
Hours spent, variances, scrap and incidents captured from the shop floor without re-entry, visible the next day rather than at month-end close.
Information flow
Between the shop floor, the back office and management. Information goes where it is useful, when it is useful, without anyone having to think about it.
From the first visit to going live, in 5 steps
One process at a time, measured before and measured after. Never a big-bang project.
Assessment
One day on your site. We follow the real path of an order, an invoice, a report. You keep a written list of everything redone by hand and what it costs in time.
Prioritisation
We rank by time saved against effort required. You choose what gets automated first, with the gain estimated in hours and in euros. Nothing starts before that number exists.
Build
We build on the tools you already have. No ERP change, no data migration, no extra software for your teams to learn.
Parallel run
The automation runs alongside the old method long enough to prove the numbers come out right. We only switch over afterwards, and you decide when.
Upkeep
Automation is alive. A format changes, a supplier alters their file, a need evolves. We monitor, we fix, we extend. That is what the monthly subscription is for.
Neither a consultancy nor a developer.
What changes when the person across the table spent nine years running the numbers inside SMEs, before automating anything.
Commitments we keep, not results we promise.
on-site assessment, at no cost*
if the assessment finds nothing to automate
software changes required
minimum term
Frequently asked questions about automation in industrial SMEs
How many days a month go into repetitive tasks at your company?
One day on site, at no cost*. You leave with a written list of what can be automated, the time it gives you back and what it costs. You decide afterwards, or not at all.
* Free as soon as an engagement follows, with no minimum term. If none does, the day and the travel are invoiced. The written report is yours either way.