Industrial manufacturing

Engineering Change Notifications out of email, into one place.

Client
Leading Irish Manufacturer
Industry
Industrial manufacturing
Engagement
Bespoke application, delivered in under three weeks
< 3 wks
Delivered into user testing from kick-off
Every change
Visible, tracked, and audited in one place
One app
Replacing fragmented email coordination
01The brief

Change control, run on email.

Engineering Change Notifications (ECNs) are how design and process changes are communicated through product development, manufacturing, and installation. Our client was running ECNs over email. As volume grew, coordination broke down: fragmented communication, unclear approval status, no visibility across departments, and frequent delays with no mechanism to root-cause them.

02What we built

One central application, Office 365-authenticated.

A central ECN Management application, Office 365-authenticated, replacing the email workflow.

1
Centralised creation and tracking

Every ECN, every approver, every status, visible in one place.

2
Personalised action lists

Each user sees the ECNs waiting on their action, prioritised.

3
Colour-coded status dashboards

Delays and bottlenecks visible at a glance.

4
Interactive graphical view

ECNs presented as node-edge diagrams, making change impact assessable at a glance.

5
Configurable categories and reason codes

The process flexes to departmental needs without re-coding.

6
Automated deadline alerts

Approvers reminded before they miss SLAs, not after.

7
Full audit trail

Every comment, every status change, every approval, logged.

03The results

Structured workflow in under three weeks.

Delivered and in user testing in under three weeks
Replaced fragmented email coordination with structured, visible workflow
Improved accountability and faster approval cycles
No external system integration required — deployed as a standalone solution that can extend later
04Technology
Vue.jsPython FastAPIPostgreSQLMicrosoft 365 authentication