Industry
Precision Sheet Metalwork
Location
Suffolk, UK
Experience
30+ Years
Accreditation
ISO 9001:2015
About Cambridge Rapid
Technical excellence backed by decades of experience.
Cambridge Rapid is a precision sheet metalwork manufacturer specialising in stainless steel fabrication. Its capabilities span laser cutting, punching, folding and forming, welding, design and prototyping, and mechanical assembly.
Serving customers across the furnace, security, transportation, and automotive industries, the company has built long-standing relationships around reliability. It has also embraced manufacturing technology for decades, introducing shop floor data collection as early as 1997.
The Challenge
Growth exposed the limits of a system that dictated the process.
As Cambridge Rapid moved onto a growth trajectory, the limitations of its previous Fitfactory Tricorn MRP system became harder to ignore. The software required the team to adapt established processes around the system instead of supporting the way the engineering business already operated.
“We needed an ERP that could scale with us — one that was genuinely built around how an engineering business operates, not a generic solution we had to force into shape.”
The Solution
An ERP designed around real manufacturing work.
Two capabilities made an immediate difference to Cambridge Rapid.
SOPs and risk assessments at the point of work
Shop floor staff can access current safety and process documentation directly in Fraction ERP. This keeps work more controlled and consistent, building on Cambridge Rapid's long history of shop floor data collection.
Flexible forward and backward scheduling
The team can view production from different scheduling perspectives and make quick adjustments as priorities change. It is functionality Cambridge Rapid now uses constantly.
The Results
Better control across the business.
Improved delivery performance
Clearer planning and flexible scheduling have helped improve on-time delivery.
Greater cost and stock visibility
Integrated stock and inventory give the team a level of insight the previous system could not provide.
Smooth staff adoption
People of all ages adopted Fraction with minimal support and without an intensive training programme.
Cambridge Rapid achieved these improvements at a significantly lower software cost than before, while continuing to discover new value as Fraction ERP evolves.
“You can tell Fraction has been written by people who have actually run an engineering business — it's not theoretical, it reflects how these businesses genuinely work.”
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