Through dedicated knowledge, experience, tools and application, we help users to optimise their process control and consequently reduce their costs.

Not only are the savings made very cost effective, but focus is constantly and automatically maintained such that improvements made can never even begin to revert to their previous costly state without this becoming obvious to all concerned.

   The Harford Central File-Server collects data from all sources for automatic archiving in a Production Audit Trial. Security is essential for legally sensitive data which can be the basis of a manufacturing due-diligence legal defence.

   The Harford Server usually resides on a factory PC network, making all management information avaliable to any configured PC.

   Harford have developed the most mature and flexible set of standard tools and techniques avaliable in Europe. These control manufacturing quality and measure Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) through an ethos of TPM/Kaizen.

This level of semi-automatic reporting fits well into modern, flat-style management structures relying on teamwork. Continous improvement is fuelled by readily available information on team progress.

   Harford also has the most mature quality module available. Date code recognition and barcode verification software (including EAN128) provide essential cost effective benefits - making customer 'fines' for non-conformance a thing of the past.

   The Harford database software was re-written in 1994 using 4GL development tools from Progress Software. This allows Harford customers to use Progress standard system integration tools for other databases such as Oracle, Sysbase, Microsoft SQL Server TM, IBM DB2/AS400, etc.