From quote to invoice eTrack enables the provision of fast, accurate fabrication and manufacturing operational intelligence.
Digitisation, automation, machine learning, Smart Factory, AI, AM, 3D, Industry 4.0, and Industry 5.0 has resulted in the digital integration of objects, including machinery and systems, that ‘talk’ to each other. For all there’s an opportunity, right now, to fully exploit the tools of computer-aided engineering using the capabilities, software and systems that are fast being developed and are on hand for all to use. The digital engineering world, the foundation of innovation in advanced manufacturing, that we now live in is fast transforming how the world makes products – in highly positive ways.
“Automation is significantly improving fabrication and manufacturing companies’ productivity and costs, thereby presenting opportunities despite industry challenges. Technological advances in fiber laser cutting machines offer quicker cutting times for less energy expenditure, resulting in greater capacities,” said Andrew Poole of Tekenso.
“Today, fiber laser cutting machines of up to 50kW and, importantly, software-driven automation mean that these supersonic cutting machines are supplied or ‘fed’ metal materials correctly and timeously,” said Poole.
Tekenso’s eTrack enables the provision of fast, accurate fabrication and manufacturing operational intelligence, which is flexible, interoperable, and modular
“By carrying out processes quicker and with a better control of costs, it becomes possible to provide customers with adequate feedback, thereby offering them a competitive advantage,” he explained.
“Businesses require effective management and oversight of various operational inputs from sales to pricing, orders outstanding, and tracking work-in-progress on the shop floor, to ensure the production and delivery of product – on time and within budget – for the end-customer.”
“But to do this you need the tools i.e. systems and software. Technical engineering solutions company Tekenso launched the eTrack manufacturing software solution two years ago. E-Track enables the provision of fast and accurate fabrication and manufacturing operational intelligence, which is flexible, interoperable and modular.”
“It is a complete management system that incorporates finance, sales, production, logistics, HR and IT (CAD/CAM/nesting software, CRM/ERP). It is a powerful software solution that is simultaneously a digital platform and a portal, gathering together all necessary component operational information from various financial, production, draughting, CRM and ERP sources, and distilling this into an integrated, logical and holistic mechanism, thereby enabling users to gain access to and clear visibility and oversight of their manufacturing and fabrication information.”
A powerful software solution, Tekenso’s eTrack is simultaneously a digital platform and a portal, gathering together all necessary component operational information from various financial, production, draughting, CRM and ERP sources, and distilling this into an integrated, logical and holistic mechanism, thereby enabling users to gain access to, and clear visibility and oversight of, their manufacturing and fabrication information
Strategies and best practices to do it well
“The world of the typical metal fabricator / ‘job-shopper’ is a highly complex one: a complicated ‘soup’ or mixture of hectic production schedules, timing, stock management, customers’ orders and more. In this environment, several different operational inputs need to happen in order for mission-critical decisions to be made and production promises to be kept. Management needs to know the status of everything from sales to pricing, orders outstanding, and how to track work-in-progress on the shop floor in real-time.”
Solution
“Tekenso’s integrated consulting and manufacturing software solution eTrack is the ‘silver bullet’ solution which has the ability to remove the complexity and confusion of ‘fabrication soup’, making order and sense out of chaos, and distilling the critical decisions from the mix. How?”
Simple
“Removing manufacturing and fabrication complexity, Tekenso’s eTrack enables critical decision-making by gathering together all necessary component operational information from various financial, production, draughting, CRM and ERP sources and distilling this into an integrated, logical and holistic mechanism which enables users to gain access to, and clear visibility and oversight of their manufacturing and fabrication information.”
Integrated
“Giving integrated, holistic oversight but also access –Tekenso’s eTrack is not only a ‘passport’ to integrated manufacturing now, with the current capability to transform fabrication, it also has the ability to change the future of fabrication.”
“With eTrack, fabrication management becomes a live, dynamic entity, with which fabricators can interact at will, utilising the robust capabilities of the software to know more – with real-time tracking and reporting – do more, and do it more productively and more cost-effectively, positively impacting bottom lines, hugely improving customer service and safeguarding customer relationships for repeat business in the future.”
From quote to invoice
“Tekenso’s eTrack enables the provision of fast, accurate fabrication and manufacturing operational intelligence, which is flexible, interoperable, and modular. It is also web-based, Cloud-hosted and in line with contemporary ‘on-demand’ software trends and the data integration demands of the 4th and 5th Industrial Revolutions (‘IR4’ and ‘IR5’) and the Internet of Things (IoT).”
With eTrack, fabrication management becomes a live, dynamic entity, with which fabricators can interact at will, utilising the robust capabilities of the software to know more
“Keep your ERP, keep your CAD and CRM, keep what you have working, we will give you the solution for what you need, eTrack is a complete system but also completely modular.”
“A powerful software solution, Tekenso’s eTrack is simultaneously a digital platform and a portal, gathering together all necessary component operational information from various financial, production, draughting, CRM and ERP sources, and distilling this into an integrated, logical and holistic mechanism, thereby enabling users to gain access to, and clear visibility and oversight of, their manufacturing and fabrication information.”
“The world of the typical metal fabricator is a highly complex one: a complicated ‘soup’ or mixture of hectic production schedules, timing, stock management, customers’ orders and more. Tekenso provides a powerful software solution, enabling future-proofed fabrication at the click of a button and changing the future of fabrication at the same time.”
“Born out of a powerful synergy of manufacturing and fabrication knowledge expertise and ‘married’ with a strong understanding of contemporary software integration. Our consulting services coupled with a powerful software solution will give you complete control and visibility over your business whether you are looking for a complete solution or an integrated option.”
eTrack is a complete management system that incorporates finance, sales, production, logistics, HR and IT (CAD/CAM/nesting software, CRM/ERP)
“Creating solutions for manufacturing and offering know how of proven and tested processes in the manufacturing, fabrication industry for over 12 years, Tekenso can analyse your requirements and advise on the least disruptive implementation, control your business and workshop processes with our business logic, let us show you how with our modular approach and solutions.”
“Since the launch of Tekenso eTrack there has been significant progress made in the advancement of the software as well as the establishment of a business process consulting arm of Tekenso. We are headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland and we now have a staff compliment of 10 covering admin, commercial, sales and development, together with a development team in India.”
“As we have progressed through proof of concept and neared completion of the heavy tech build, we are seeing more interest from customers who have the confidence now that the platform is basically built out as a cloud solution. We collect an inordinate amount of data and dashboarding from live data across the different divisions in businesses. This is becoming huge.”
“We have customers that have joined our subscription based network ranging from small start-ups to medium-size businesses to a large OE. We feel that our sweet spot is the SME as we have the right balance of price, functionality, and quality of business process. We also want to stay in the sheet metal vertical as this is where our expertise sits.”
eTrack can integrate with most ERP systems and OEMs software
“We are getting really good feedback in terms of scrap utilisation as well as efficiencies related to staff ( super-fast quoting ) and machines (better planning and scheduling). A sizable job shop that has signed up with us could be paperless in the next four months.”
“We presented our digitisation of the manufacturing process at last year’s EuroBlech exhibition where there was significant interest from customers, as well as developments from the likes of OEMs and ERP developers. Our platform can integrate with most ERP systems and OEMs software. We are impartial and objective and work with any brand of equipment for sheet metal processing.”
“We started in the UK and South Africa. Over the next 12 months we have plans to penetrate the Middle East, Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand.”
Third-party integrations
“As with any software you are always looking to integrate your product with other software and improving it by adding new features and enhancements. During the last two years we have certainly been busy in these areas, all to make the software user friendly.”
“Third-party integrations are tools built by someone else. It contains data that are used to add features to applications, rather than building those features from scratch.”
Tekenso can analyse your requirements and advise on the least disruptive implementation and control your business and workshop processes with business logic
“The third-party integrations include BySoft CAM API Integration (new); TruTops Boost CAM Integration (new); TruTops Classic CAM Integration (enhancements); SigmaNest V9 and V10 CAM Integration (enhancements); Syspro ERP Integration (enhancements); Sage Evolution ERP Integration (enhancements) and Sage One ERP Integration (new).”
New features
“We have added a number of new features that have been very well accepted during the rollout. These include multi-factor user authentication using Microsoft Azure AD, eTrack CAD, DXF processing within sales and estimations, multi-level sales and purchasing approvals, customer contract pricing, web based integrated inventory control, web based production tracking, scheduling, operational and quality management, user task management both desktop and web and multiple document templates manager for system document and label templates.”
Enhancements
“Software enhancements means modifications or improvements made to the software relating to the products, which improve performance, capabilities or capacity of the software revision level with which it is associated or which provide additional functions to the software.”
Our software has passed platform wide web security and penetration testing, there is improved material heat number traceability, there have been audit trail transactional reporting improvements and quotation estimation calculation enhancements as well as better long steel product estimation and processing.”
For further details contact Andrew Poole on 082 903 4135 / +44 7365 119112, andrew@tekenso.com or visit www.tekenso.com
