Engineering ¹ú²úÂÒÂ× Software
- Integrated control from design to delivery
- Real-time production data and inventory insights
- Built-in traceability for serial and batch management
- Streamlined change control and version management
- Supports lean manufacturing and continuous improvement
Benefits of Exel's Engineering ¹ú²úÂÒÂ× Software
Highly Flexible
Adaptable to Your Business
AI Enabled
Engineering ¹ú²úÂÒÂ× for Modern Manufacturing Environments
The engineering sector demands operational flexibility, process control, and full visibility across complex workflows. EFACS is built to meet these challenges, offering a browser-based, fully integrated ¹ú²úÂÒÂ× platform that unifies functions from production planning and scheduling to inventory control, traceability, and quality assurance.
Whether you manufacture one-off prototypes, tooling, or high-volume parts, EFACS adapts to the way you work. With embedded support for a wide range of engineering processes, including machining, fabrication, welding, forming, and finishing, it enables engineering businesses to reduce waste, meet delivery deadlines, and maintain rigorous quality standards.
Enterprise Resource Planning
Production Agility Across Every Engineering Process
Engineering businesses need systems that support precision, responsiveness, and custom workflows. EFACS provides the tools to manage a wide variety of production environments, from bespoke assemblies to multi-operation batch jobs.
EFACS enables you to:
- Capture real-time data with barcoding and RFID
- Streamline goods receipt, assembly, and dispatch
- Optimise production capacity and resource allocation
- Deploy browser-based SFDC on client mobile devices
- Smooth demand with advanced forecasting and planning
A powerful planning engine factors in machine availability, staff skill levels, setup/clean-down time, and department capacity, all to help you balance resources and meet customer deadlines with confidence.
Control
End-to-End Traceability & Product Lifecycle Control
In engineering environments, product quality and traceability are paramount. EFACS offers built-in tools to maintain strict lifecycle control while supporting agility in design and production.
Key capabilities include:
- Engineering Change Control (ECN) for lifecycle management
- Serial number and batch traceability integrated throughout the system
- Version-controlled document management for full design accountability
- CAD/CAM integration directly linked to bills of material
- Inventory quarantine and QA procedures aligned with industry standards
Whether you’re working in machining, presswork, profiling, or multi-stage assemblies, EFACS ensures your systems are fully connected, auditable, and ready to scale with your operation.
Client Case Study
HV Wooding
Founded in 1968 in a small shop in Lyminge, HV Wooding has grown to become one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of precision engineered components and assemblies. A commitment to product quality, customer service and innovation is the reason why companies such as Rolls Royce, Honeywell, Schneider Electric and ABB have worked with HV Wooding for over 30 years. Parts manufactured by HV Wooding can also be found in over 22 million UK homes and continued success has seen HV Wooding’s turnover double in six years, reaching £13.5m in 2012.
HV Wooding has five key areas of work: Busbars, Presswork, Wire Erosion, CNC Machining and Sub-assembly. With an average split between 70% Make to Order (MTO) and 30% Make to Stock (MTS), the company produces approximately 1.2 million parts per month. Depending on the nature of production, order sizes can range from single items to substantial batches measured in hundreds of thousands, with lead times varying from next day on MTS items through to months for complex custom parts where tooling also has to be designed and manufactured. In fact, all parts are manufactured to customer requirements with orders/enquiries being in the form of engineering drawings.
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Contact UsEngineering ¹ú²úÂÒÂ× Frequently Asked Questions
Does it cater for Project Management & Job Costing?
The Job Costing system provides extensive reporting based on works order labour bookings compared with planned costs, actual material issues compared with planned material and actual subcontract costs incurred through the Purchase Order Processing module compared with planned subcontract costs. Analysis is available by works order, work centre, operator and section. The Project Management module provides a ‘project umbrella’ for the tendering process and subsequent management of successful contracts associated with a project.
Does it provide a Gantt chart?
It does. You can visualise the schedule effortlessly with intuitive Gantt charts, delve into resource utilisation and availability with the utilisation view, or extract relevant information through data query views. These versatile views enable analysis and interpretation of scheduling data from multiple angles.
Does it have Engineering Change Control functionality?
Yes, the Engineering Change Control facilities provide an Engineering Change Note (ECN) system and full ‘part revision’ control. A single Change Note may affect any number of parts. A flexible status system controls the state of the ECN. Parts may be managed at multiple revisions, each revision demanding a potentially different Bill of Materials and Routing definition.
Does it have Non-conformance reports (NCRs) and corrective actions?
Exel’s Engineering ¹ú²úÂÒÂ× provides a full quality management system with NCRs and corrective actions, utilising workflows to provide efficiency gains
Does it have centralised storage for project documents, CAD files and specs?
The platform has a comprehensive document management system that allows a document to be saved once and referenced in many places – it is compatible with a multitude of file types, such as Word, Excel, PDF, video, sound, images (JPG, MPG, GIF, etc.) and CAD formats such as DXF, DWG – in fact all normal formats supported within a browser environment.
