Replace the board, keep the flow.
Jobs move through cutting, welding, finishing and dispatch digitally, so status is visible without walking the bays.
Tameside-based · serving Warrington (42 minutes)
Custom software in Warrington, shaped around how the shop runs.
Job tracking, shop-floor status and the tools between the office and the bays, built for Warrington fabricators and manufacturers. Live at Kingsland Fabrications.
Start with the board, the spreadsheet or the whiteboard.
Tell us what the shop uses to track work now. We will visit, see where status gets lost and say whether a custom system is worth it, with a fixed quote after discovery.
- Kanban
- physical board replaced by digital stage changes
- ~120%
- Kingsland revenue growth versus the start-of-year plan for that financial year, no wage rise
- 42 min
- from our Tameside base
Happy Webs is based in Tameside, Manchester, we serve Warrington businesses from 42 minutes away. If you want experienced AI engineers who'll travel for the workflow audit and build the right thing for your business, that's us.
The work in context · Illustrative scenes
Build something the team can use.
Demonstrate the workflow with the people doing the job, then check the awkward cases and hand over practical guidance.
Fit the system around the work.
An engineering team may need drawings, job details and approvals in one place, without rebuilding every tool it already uses.
Kingsland Fabrications ran its shop on a physical Kanban board and a mess of free tools. We built a manufacturing execution system around the way steel fabrication really runs: real-time job tracking through cutting, welding, finishing and dispatch, digital stage changes in place of the board, and visibility between the office and the bays. The floor reports status because the system helps them, not because they are chased.
Kingsland Fabrications turned a website brief into a production system.
The Warrington fabricator first came to us for a website. We then built the custom manufacturing execution system and production AI that now connects job tracking, shop-floor status and document-heavy work.
Published outcomes include supervisor paint-note work falling from roughly two hours a day to near zero and revenue finishing roughly 120% above the start-of-year plan for that financial year without an increase in the wage bill. We visit when the process needs to be understood on the shop floor.
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These are the practical questions Warrington buyers usually need answered before they call or ask for a quote.
Data capture people will actually use.
A system only works if the floor uses it. Kingsland's is built around what fabricators will do in the middle of a job.
Office and bays on the same page.
The office sees where each job is without asking, so admin can process orders instead of chasing status.
Published client work
- Kingsland Fabrications. Connected production software, document handling and shop-floor workflows.
Everything we ship for Warrington clients.
01
Discovery workshop
We learn your workflows and pain points
02
Custom AI tools
Software built for your processes
03
Google Workspace AI
Integrations with Sheets, Docs and Gmail
04
Chatbots and assistants
Internal or customer-facing, trained on your data
05
API integrations
Connect AI tools to the software you use
06
Ongoing iteration
Refined as your team uses the tools
Not sure where to start?
Start with the work that takes your time.
Use our automation review to work out which repetitive task is worth tackling first. Compare the time involved with setup and running costs before committing to a build.
Tameside team, working with you UK-wide.
Warrington is about 42 minutes from our base in Ashton-under-Lyne. We visit when something has to be seen in person, such as the shop floor, and run the rest from Ashton-under-Lyne.
What Warrington businesses actually get from us, in plain English.
The system came out of discovery, not out of a brochure. Jobs were delayed or hard to see end to end, admin chased status instead of processing orders, and growth was capped by how many hours people could spend moving paper and walking the floor. Stephen Chappell, the managing director, knew they needed better systems and wanted a partner who builds for fabrication, not generic software demos.
We built the system in phases. The first was the manufacturing execution system itself. Production AI went on top once the data was flowing: paint-note generation, invoice and purchase order matching, drawing extraction and a shop-floor assistant. We still work with Kingsland continuously, reviewing the operation, picking the next bottleneck and shipping the next layer.
The published figure is roughly 120% revenue growth versus the start-of-year plan for that financial year, with no increase in the wage bill, and the case study credits the MES and the AI. We cannot promise the same for another shop. We can promise to look at your actual process first, with a visit from our Tameside base, 42 minutes away.
Custom AI Software in Warrington, FAQ.
01 What kind of AI software can you build?
Quoting tools, internal assistants, quality inspection and reporting dashboards, among others. If a process can be improved with AI, we can scope the software.
02 How much does custom AI software cost?
Focused builds start from £3,200 excluding VAT. Integrations, permissions and workflow complexity set the scope. We agree a fixed quote after discovery.
03 What does the Kingsland system actually do?
It tracks jobs in real time through cutting, welding, finishing and dispatch, replaces the physical Kanban board with digital stage changes and gives the office and the bays the same view of each job.
04 Do we have to replace everything we use?
No. Kingsland used a mess of free and low-cost tools. We replaced the parts that were holding the shop back, and connect to what you already use where that makes sense.
05 Who looks after it after launch?
We do, if you want us to. Support and further development are quoted separately and agreed before they start.
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