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UK machinery manufacturers are under increasing pressure: more custom builds, longer lead times, tighter regulations and volatile supply chains.
Whether you’re building industrial pumps, precision tooling, or bespoke automation equipment, your business needs more than a generic ERP system. It needs software built for the way machinery manufacturing works and able to address the challenges the sector is facing.
“123Insight’s reporting has given us greater visibility across our operations. This is improving our level of stock holding, driving down working capital and freeing up our cash flow. After four months of using the system, we have already reduced our stock holding by £250,000.”
Mark Bastable, Group Finance Director, Flowplant Ltd
Machinery and equipment manufacturing in the UK is a complex sector and is getting more so year-on-year. Because we work with so many machinery manufacturers, we know very well what their pain points are – here are some of the biggest:
Custom builds mean frequent design changes, long approval chains, and tight turnaround times. Traditional systems can’t keep up with the flexibility ETO requires – it needs true ERP for machinery manufacturing.
Managing deep, multi-level BOMs without a structured bill of materials software creates errors, delays, and costly rework, and seeds inefficiency across the whole business.
Supply chain volatility means that component delays can sometimes stretch to months, and many machinery manufacturers have no proactive way to plan around them.
A shop floor is the beating heart of any machinery manufacturing firm. Without integrated shop floor control, it’s hard to know what’s in production, what’s late, and where bottlenecks are forming.
For any subsector of manufacturing traceability is essential. Machinery is no different. But capturing and retrieving detailed build history is a constant burden without the automation offered by MRP for machinery.
Unlike generic ERP solutions, 123Insight is tailored to the precise needs of machinery manufacturers and provides the features that best address industry challenges.
The ability to balance customer orders, available stock, capacity, and staffing all in one view is priceless. Our production planning software delivers exactly this. dynamically adjusting to keep schedules realistic and up to date.
No machinery manufacturer can realistically hope to address BOM version control without industrial machinery ERP. 123Insight’s BOM version control keeps everyone working from the correct build data, with clear history, change approvals, and impact analysis.
123Insight acts as a complete digital audit trail for industrial manufacturers. It tracks parts, operators, inspections and delivery status from start to finish, and in so doing acts as your regulatory compliance partner.
Support for complex routing, variable BOMs, and configuration management means you can quote faster and build with confidence, even for one-off jobs. Flexibility is key, and 123Insight makes that straightforward.
123Insight is designed for discrete manufacturing environments where every build matters. It is trusted by leading machinery and equipment builders across the UK, from industrial fabrication to bespoke robotics and automation.
For machinery companies dealing with constant change, unique customer requirements and the need for full traceability, it provides the clarity and control that general ERP platforms lack.
We are always looking to grow our business and 123Insight is a key factor in allowing us to do this. The business model and scalable licencing fits perfectly for us and has allowed us to invest in other areas - from the start it was £100k of our budget that we were able to use elsewhere.
By reducing our stock levels and only ordering what we need, we know straight away what the lead time is for the part so we can give accurate times to our customer at order placement.
The return on investment is very short for the level of investment we made. It’s within the first few months of use – almost instantaneous.
Pain Point | 123Insight Solution | Benefit |
|---|---|---|
Engineer-to-order complexity | undefined Configurable routings and BOMs with real-time updates | Deliver custom builds on time and without errors |
Long lead times and supply chain volatility | undefined Automated reordering, lead-time tracking, supplier performance data | Reduce errors, boost quality |
Lack of cost visibility | Job-level cost tracking across materials, labour, and overhead | Quote accurately and protect your profit margins |
Shop floor visibility | Integrated shop floor control with live WIP tracking | Spot delays early and improve delivery performance |
| undefined Manual systems and disconnected data | Fully integrated MRP/ERP modules across departments | Eliminate double entry and keep all teams in sync |
| undefined Compliance and traceability demands | undefined Part-level tracking with full build history and audit reporting | undefined Pass audits quickly and reduce compliance risk |
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