Built in Sheffield, for factories we can walk around

Discovery means walking the floor and following a job from the order that started it to the crate it left in. That is a morning in the building, not a call. Opening stock has to be counted and agreed with the people who count it. Training a planner and training an operator are different jobs, and both go better in person.

For a manufacturer in Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Doncaster or Chesterfield that is a short drive rather than an expense line in a proposal. We work with manufacturers across the UK, and we are honest that the first phase goes better when somebody can come out the same week.

Commstec has supported Sheffield organisations since 2017 as a security-first managed service provider, which is where Keystone’s approach to access, permissions and audit came from. South Yorkshire still makes things: precision engineering and subcontract machining around Sheffield and Rotherham, fabrication across the Dearne Valley, and an aerospace and advanced manufacturing cluster in the north of the city. The problems in those factories are current ones — a schedule that assumes capacity nobody is rostered for, material provenance that stops at the rack, and job cost that arrives after the margin has gone.