3audit functions unified
Automotive OEM
Audit module digitisation
Manufacturing quality, supplier quality assurance and integrated management system audits digitised into a single system, with findings, ownership and closure tracked end to end.
MachDatum Engineering
Digital transformation for manufacturers, built by engineers who work on the floor.
Custom software, industrial IoT and shop-floor integration — from machine connectivity and process monitoring through to quality, audit and traceability systems.
Manufacturers we’ve built for
Looking for a product, not a project?
Engineering builds custom systems for your plant. If you would rather buy something ready to run, these are the two products we make.
Every manufacturer eventually hits the same wall
Quality certificates, audit trails and non-conformance records that live in Excel, in email, and in someone’s memory. The data exists — it just cannot be trusted, found, or signed off without someone spending a day assembling it.
MachDatum Engineering builds the software that gets that data into a system, without forcing a generic off-the-shelf tool onto a process that does not fit one. Here is what that looks like in practice.
Selected projects
Client names are withheld; the work is described as delivered.
2,496manual readings eliminated every day
Carbon products manufacturer
Wireless process monitoring for kiln operations
Custom battery-powered BLE thermocouple readers on rotating kiln drums, replacing 2,496 hand-taken readings a day — and catching the temperature drift that spoils a whole batch while it is still correctable.
Read the full story →Zeromanual collation left in the process
Tier 1 automotive gearbox manufacturer
Digital quality certificate for gearbox assemblies
Four quality data streams unified into one platform, generating tamper-proof digitally signed certificates with no manual collation.
Read the full story →3 hrssaved on every charge plan
Tier 1 automotive gearbox manufacturer
Nitriding process optimisation for gearbox components
An optimisation engine for nitriding charge planning — three hours saved per charge and 10% more furnace utilisation from smarter fixture packing.
Read the full story →80%less manual effort processing certificates
Industrial valve manufacturer
Assembly digitalisation and digital valve test certificate
OCR and LLM extraction over unstructured supplier certificates, joined to hydro testing and ERP data — 80% less manual effort per certificate.
Read the full story →5utility streams on one platform
Industrial gas and utilities operation
Utility monitoring and safety automation
Five utility streams and four meter vendors integrated over Modbus, RS485, SunSpec and PLC onto a single platform, with real-time gas and oxygen alerting.
Read the full story →Also delivered
FullNCR/CAPA lifecycle digitised
Commercial vehicle manufacturer
NCR and CAPA process digitalisation
The full non-conformance and corrective action lifecycle digitised into a structured process application with defined ownership at every stage.
2020live continuously since
Tier 1 automotive gearbox manufacturer
Maintenance and ticketing platform
Role-based checklist permissions, a ticketing and operator-performance dashboard and reassignment logic, layered onto a maintenance platform we originally built for the same plant.
2019our earliest engagement on record
Precision gear manufacturer
Machine monitoring and multi-vendor dashboard
Interfaces built to both FANUC and Siemens 840D controllers, with a single dashboard integrating and analysing data across two controller families.
Why MachDatum Engineering
A specialisation, not a portfolio
Every engagement below solves the same underlying problem for a different manufacturer — getting quality, compliance and audit data out of spreadsheets and into a real system. That is a practice, not a general dev shop.
Long relationships, not one-off builds
Three separate engagements with the same gearbox manufacturer, a valve-manufacturer relationship spanning multiple phases, and systems still on active renewal years after handover.
Software and hardware, one team
Custom applications alongside PLC, CNC and sensor integration — including hardware we design and build ourselves when nothing off the shelf survives the environment.
Built to run without us
The oldest system here has been in daily production since 2020. We are measured on what keeps working after handover, not on what demos well at go-live.
Have a process that still runs on paper?
Tell us what it is and how it works today. We will tell you honestly whether it is worth building, whether our CMMS already covers it, or whether you are better off leaving it alone.