About
Developed And Supported By Commstec In Sheffield
Keystone Precision combines manufacturing workflow, secure cloud delivery and practical implementation support for UK manufacturers.
Why This Product Exists
Manufacturers between roughly twenty-five and a hundred and fifty people are stuck between two kinds of software. Tier-one ERP is heavy, slow to implement and priced for a different size of company. Smaller systems may not cover all the planning, quality and traceability workflows a growing manufacturer needs.
Keystone is built for the middle: a system that follows the job from enquiry to despatch, plans material and capacity properly, and holds the evidence a customer or an auditor will eventually ask for.
Security is part of the product foundation. Commstec is a Cyber Essentials certified, ISO 27001 aligned managed service provider. We adopt new technology, including the current generation of AI tooling, where it makes a planner’s day easier and where we can do it safely. Security is considered at the design stage of every feature, and we answer security questions directly with supporting information for your IT team or auditor.
How it is built
Developed Around Manufacturing Workflows
We work through how orders, people, machines and quality decisions move through the factory. Feedback is assessed, tested and built into the shared product where it helps the manufacturers using it.
Planning That Knows Who Is In
A planner pointed out the obvious gap in capacity planning: the board said a machine was free when nobody was rostered to run it. Planning now narrows each work centre to the hours somebody is on it, counts unattended running separately, and shows a machine with no operator before the week starts rather than on the morning it matters.
Slippage Without Moving The Commitment
The request was precise: do not push jobs backwards automatically when we are behind, because the agreed plan is what we are measured against. Publishing a plan now fixes it as a revision. Progress is compared to it, an overrun is forecast past it, and replanning is a deliberate step with the previous revision kept.
Both of those came from manufacturers describing their own working week, and both ship to everybody rather than being held as a special build. We do not name the factories we work with, and we do not publish numbers we cannot evidence.
See Keystone Precision With Your Manufacturing Workflow
A tailored walkthrough follows one of your jobs from customer demand through planning, production, quality and despatch.