Meshlock / Tools in action
Each one is a real tool, built around an existing ERP and tested on real production data. First the job by hand, then the same job with the tool. Parts, orders and machines on screen are illustrative. The results are real, rounded.
Around your ERP
Job orders and picking orders came off the ERP in one unsorted pile, with no courier and no picture of the part. Tools built around it now sort and group the job orders, stamp the courier, print a preview of the part and put picking orders in route order. The ERP provider's own consultants couldn't match it.
12 h
a week saved at peak, filtering and reprinting picking orders
5×
faster matching products to shipping slips
0
changes to your ERP. No new licences, nothing to break at upgrade time
Around the ERP
1 h → 1 min
About 80 sheets for 60 job orders came off the ERP as one mixed print. Someone spent about an hour a day sorting them, clipping multi-page orders together and writing on the courier.
A tool that sorts the sheets, groups multi-page orders, adds a separator with the sheet count, stamps the courier and prints a preview of the part. It also collects the order data and drafts a short message for the shift team with the day's priorities.
About an hour of daily sorting now takes about a minute.
A tool like this: about £1,000. Every quote is built around your own workflow. How prices work →
Around the ERP
+40% picking rate
The ERP printed picking orders as one pile, in print order, and pickers walked the warehouse back and forth. At peak, someone filtered and reprinted them by hand, aisle by aisle or by value: up to 12 hours a week.
One pile goes in. The tool sorts it the way you choose, by priority, value or size, maps every order to its location in the warehouse and puts them in route order. One loop instead of back and forth.
Picking rate up by about 40%. The filtering and reprinting by hand stopped.
A tool like this: about £2,250. Every quote is built around your own workflow. How prices work →
Quality & error-proofing
Up to 10% of machine capacity freed
New designs went to the machine to find out if they were right. Test cut, count the parts by hand, find the error, bin the sheet, fix it, repeat. About an hour on every new design.
A digital quality gate, built from scratch. Every file is checked on screen before the first cut: orientation, position, gaps in cut paths, processing settings, part count against the paperwork and part ID. Each issue is marked on the drawing and fixed in the file before it reaches a machine.
Errors caught on screen, not in the bin. About an hour saved on every new design, and up to 10% of machine capacity freed.
A tool like this: about £1,700. Every quote is built around your own workflow. How prices work →
Data & reporting
80% → 91%
The machines ran all day and nobody knew how well. Every stop was in the logs, but nobody could see it. Daily performance was a guess.
Machine logs pulled automatically, with every start and stop tracked to the second and shown per machine. With the downtime visible, the causes were found, the process changed and operators were trained on the real data.
Average machine performance up from 80% on the first measured day to 91%. Same machines, same people.
A tool like this: about £1,700. Every quote is built around your own workflow. How prices work →
Automation
0 files opened by hand
Design files were opened and exported to PDF one at a time. Open, export, pick the preset, name it, save, close, next. One wrong click meant one bad PDF.
A small Adobe script. Pick the folders, set the preset once and press Run. Every file is exported with the same settings and listed in a log.
Whole folders exported while you do something else. No skipped files, no wrong presets.
A tool like this: about £500. Every quote is built around your own workflow. How prices work →
No structured way to trace quality issues to their source. Recurring problems kept resurfacing.
Structured DMAIC project: root-caused across process and communication behaviour, ran targeted interventions.
Significant, sustained improvement in traceability compliance, verified with real data.
Auditing files across a multi-machine fleet was manual, slow, and at scale, impractical to run at all.
Automated distribution on a fixed schedule with a full, timestamped audit trail. Zero manual steps.
A process that was previously impractical to run now takes about half an hour, fully traceable.
Every new product range needed hours of manual file preparation before anything could run.
Replaced one-off files with a standard set and built-in alignment checks.
The prep step disappeared completely. Time to test a new range down 93%.
We work around it. Never inside it.
Made for your process. Not bent to fit it.
Agreed in writing before we start.
The tool and its documentation stay with you.
A free 30-minute call. Tell me what feels slow, and I'll tell you honestly whether a tool would fix it. Or tick what happens on your floor and get a one-page offer in about 90 seconds.