SUMMARY OF BUSINESS ACTIVITIES
Moulders Consulting delivers ERP/MRP tools built by plastics veterans for injection moulders. Expect BOMs, smart scheduling, and seamless MES integration—real shop-floor insight meets Industry 4.0 expertise.
DETAILS OF PRODUCT RANGE
MCL's MCL Software is a comprehensive, integrated MRP/ERP platform, explicitly tuned for injection moulding. Here are the standout features:
- Tooling Register: Track tooling status, location, and client assets.
- Bill of Materials (BOMs): Multilevel assemblies using dynamic percentages for resins, colourants, additives—adjusts automatically based on weight or cycle.
- Production Planning & Scheduling: Visual capacity planning on weekly, daily, or even hourly scales.
- Job Cards / Work Orders: Shop-floor-ready documents incorporating part details, drawings, BOMs, tools, ancillaries, allocations, even images of parts.
- CRM & Traceability: Capture full customer/supplier data, maintain traceability, and monitor non-conformance reports (NCR) with corrective actions.
- Purchasing: Auto-generated purchase plans driven by customer demand, with stock allocation oversight.
- Shop-Floor Data Capture: Real-time monitoring of processes, works orders, and job cards.
- Dashboard: Real-time, at-a-glance metrics—sales, quotes, purchasing, production, quality, delivery.
- Invoicing Integration: Generate invoices integrated with Sage, Xero, and QuickBooks.
- Traceability Features: Track materials from purchase order to WIP (Work In Progress) to final component.
- NPI & Quotations: Integrate new product introduction, approvals, tooling, trials, validations—and fast, accurate quoting using real-time inputs like material pricing, labour/machine costs, and cycle data.
- Plastics Packaging Tax Calculator: Built-in to assess and ensure compliance based on recycled content, material type, and usage.
SPECIALIST AREAS
- MRP/ERP for Injection Moulding: Deeply customised systems that reflect the realities of plastic injection moulding operations—from BOMs based on percentages to NPI workflows.
- E-Commerce & Website Development: They don't stop at production—they design, develop, host, and market manufacturing websites to boost digital presence.
- MES / Shop-Floor / Industry 4.0: Real-time scheduling, energy and process monitoring, and manufacturing execution systems tailored for smart manufacturing environments
ADDITIONAL SERVICES PROVIDED
- Custom Implementation & On-Site Support: Tailored rollouts with dedicated consultants who champion adoption and guide teams.
- Hands-On Training & Ongoing Support: Practical, expert-led guidance with updates informed by industry feedback.
- Operational Efficiency & Compliance Consulting: Advisory services laser-focused on improving traceability, efficiency, and regulatory alignment.
- Ancillary Equipment Provision: Solutions for material handling and gravimetric systems to automate material flow within the factory.
- Marketing & Strategic E-Commerce Assistance: Support for digital marketing, website strategy, positioning, and online growth.
- Total Service Coverage: Combining system implementation, ERP/MRP, MES, industry 4.0 consulting, e-commerce infrastructure, ancillary hardware, and hands-on operational uplift initiatives.
OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION
Business Essence: MCL delivers ERP and MRP systems purpose-built for plastic injection moulding SMEs—authored by insiders who’ve felt the hum of machines firsthand.
Product Highlights: A handsomely integrated system—MRP + ERP + MES + dashboards + quoting + tax compliance + e-commerce—all executed with sector-specific finesse.
Specialisms: Injection moulding, real-time manufacturing, e-commerce, Industry 4.0—no pigeonholes, just precision.
Service Spectrum: Implementation, training, consulting, digital strategy, equipment, and lifecycle partnerships that foster sustainable growth.
