Manufacturing

Your operations team knows the floor better than anyone, but they’re spending too much time on manual processes, disconnected systems, and data that lives in spreadsheets.

We build custom automation and visibility solutions for manufacturing teams using the Microsoft tools you already own: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and SharePoint.

The Challenge: When Manual Processes Cost You Production Time

Does this sound familiar? Your team has the experience and the expertise, but too much of their time gets consumed by tasks that technology should be handling.

Work Orders on Paper or Email: Supervisors and technicians are chasing job statuses instead of working on the floor, with no central system to track what has been assigned, started, or completed.
Inventory Tracked in Spreadsheets: There is no real-time view of parts, raw materials, or finished goods until something runs out or a shipment gets delayed.
Approval Chains That Stall Operations: Purchase requests, maintenance sign-offs, and safety approvals are sitting in someone’s inbox with no visibility into where things stand or how long they have been waiting.
No Maintenance History: Equipment issues get fixed but never properly logged, so the same problems keep coming back and there is no data to support a preventive maintenance strategy.
Leadership Flying Blind: Plant managers and operations leaders are making decisions without real-time data on output, downtime, or floor performance, relying on reports that are already outdated by the time they are compiled.

These are not just inefficiencies. They are costing you production time, inflating operational costs, and keeping your best people buried in administrative work instead of driving output.

Our Solutions: Automate Processes, Get Visibility Across Your Operations

We build secure, scalable solutions on the Microsoft Power Platform that connect the systems your team already uses and eliminate the manual work that slows everything down. This is not about replacing your core systems. It is about building the applications and workflows that fill the gaps between them.

Microsoft Power Apps

ESW creates custom, user-friendly applications that replace paper forms, spreadsheets, and disconnected tools for everything from work order management to maintenance requests and inventory tracking. Your team gets purpose-built apps that match how they actually work on the floor.

Microsoft Power Automate

We design automated workflows that handle rule-based tasks like approval routing, notifications, work order assignments, and data synchronization between systems, eliminating the manual handoffs that create delays and errors.

Microsoft Power BI

We build real-time dashboards that pull data from your production systems, ERPs, and line-of-business applications into a single view, giving plant managers and leadership the visibility they need to make fast, informed decisions.

Custom Solutions for Manufacturing

Digital Work Order Management

Replace paper-based and email-driven work order processes with a structured Power Apps system where jobs are created, assigned, tracked, and closed digitally. Supervisors get real-time status visibility, technicians get clear task queues, and nothing falls through the cracks.

Inventory and Parts Tracking

Give your team a live view of parts, raw materials, and finished goods with a custom inventory tracking app built on Power Apps and SharePoint. Integrate with barcode scanning for fast updates, set automatic low-stock alerts via Power Automate, and stop relying on spreadsheets that are out of date the moment they are saved.

Maintenance Request and Preventive Maintenance Workflows

Build a complete maintenance management system where equipment issues are logged, routed to the right technician, tracked to resolution, and stored as a searchable history. Layer in preventive maintenance scheduling so your team is addressing problems before they cause downtime, not after.

Production and Operations Dashboards

Connect your production data to Power BI and give leadership real-time visibility into output, downtime, cycle times, and performance KPIs across the floor. Move from reactive monthly reporting to dashboards your team can act on in the moment decisions need to be made.

Your Expert Partner in Manufacturing Operations

Choosing a partner to build solutions around your critical operations requires confidence in both their technical depth and their accountability. ESW brings both.

Deep Microsoft Expertise: We are certified experts in the Power Platform and the full Microsoft 365 ecosystem, with proven experience building production-grade solutions across complex operational environments.
100% U.S.-Based Team: Our entire team of consultants and developers is based in the U.S., ensuring clear communication, fast response times, and direct accountability throughout every engagement.
Practical, ROI-Driven Approach: We focus on solving your highest-impact challenges first and deliver working solutions in weeks, not months. You see value quickly, not at the end of a lengthy implementation cycle.
Security and Governance Focused: Every solution we build is designed with enterprise security standards in mind, keeping your operational data protected and your processes compliant.

Ready to Modernize Your Manufacturing Operations?

Let’s talk. Schedule a complimentary consultation to discuss your specific challenges and goals. We’ll show you how a targeted automation or visibility solution can eliminate manual work, reduce downtime, and give your team the tools to operate at full capacity.

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