ERP does not match the floor
Work orders, quality checks, and inventory adjustments happen offline — then get keyed in twice.
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Automation & integration for manufacturing & industrial
Manufacturers live between ERP, spreadsheets, and shop-floor reality. Production reporting is manual, quality data is late, and leadership wants visibility without another seven-figure ERP project. North Ark automates handoffs and connects systems with fixed-price outcomes.
Discrete manufacturers, food production, and industrial suppliers — 40–200 staff.
Manufacturing — systems that talk
ERP gaps, manual reporting, and shop-floor data stuck in spreadsheets? Tell us the workflow — we reply with integration or automation ROI.
Common pressures
Reporting lags reality by days
Leadership asks for numbers that require exports from three systems every Monday.
AI pilots without OT boundaries
Corporate wants AI summaries; plant teams need solutions that respect segmentation and safety.
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Typical outcomes
- — FC-06 Business Automation Scan — quantified ROI on top manual workflows
- — OC-01 integrations between ERP, quality, and finance systems
- — Hybrid Azure connectivity for analytics without ripping out ERP
Proof
Related project work
Anonymised outcomes from similar engagements — fixed price, senior delivery.
Business Automation
Workflow automation — 15 hours/week back for ops team
Agency, 18 staff
An agency ops team spent half their week on manual data entry — copying client briefs between Slack, Google Sheets, project tools, and Xero. Legacy Power Automate flows broke silently every few weeks.
- Time saved: ~15 hours/week across ops team
- Reliability: Documented workflows with error handling
- Reporting: Friday report automated — 4 hrs → 20 min
Questions
- Do you work on the shop floor OT network?
- We integrate at the systems boundary — ERP, reporting, and cloud — with your IT/OT policies. We do not reconfigure PLCs or SCADA without a qualified partner.
- Power Automate vs custom integration?
- M365-native handoffs → Power Automate. Multi-system job-to-cash or ERP sync → OC-01. FC-06 maps the business case before you commit.
Brisbane-based delivery — see local hub.
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