Welcome to FoCul

We are a specialist consultancy providing collaboration solutions to Engineering and Manufacturing organisations.

Our key strength is our knowledge of these organisations - from Manufacturing right through to HR and Sales.

Our team is a mixed group of Professional Engineers and IT developers. This combination of skills and knowledge allows us to develop solutions that work really well in your environment with your people.

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Visual Directory - FoCul adds thumbnails to the Domino Directory 

FoCul has developed a process to allow thumbnails to be shown in views in the Domino Directory. Users can add their own thumbnails as jpg attachments and these are automatically processed and displayed in the views as shown below.

This significantly improves the usefulness of the Domino Directory.
 
300x300fordaxham.jpg The code uses DXL to create image resources from the attachments. The Image resources are then displayed in the view

We have developed this code for one of our clients who has agreed to let us Open Source it.

We will be realising the code along with instructions in the near future, probably via OpenNTF.

If you have any queries about what we have done or would like us to modify your directory please do not hesitate to contact us

FoCul and Lucite International develop REACH Compliance Process 

FoCul is working with Lucite International to develop a process to manage REACH compliance within Lucite.

Lucite engaged FoCul after reviewing other commercial offerings. If you would like to know more about tools to help you manage the complexity of REACH then please contact us.

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FoCul Launches new Skills Management System 

FoCul is working with two significant Chemical companies in the NE and NW to launch our new BES Skills Management System.

The system allows both individuals and managers to take control of their skills training records in a fully controlled and auditable way.

Skills requirements can be determined directly from Role Specific Training Needs Analysis and also from ad-hoc training requirements

The system is part of our new Business Efficiency Suite. We will bring you more information once the systems have gone live

FoCul Launches new Activities Management System 

FoCul is working with a significant Chemical company in the NE to launch our BES Activities Management  System. The system brings together all of the activities that a person has to do into one place. These activities include :

Reading ( and confirming that they have read ) new instructions and procedures specifically relevant to them

Completing work flow activities in other processes e.g. authorising a Safety report, re-issuing a controlled document

Completing training identified in the Training system

The system is part of our new Business Efficiency Suite. We will bring you more information once the systems have gone live in January

FoCul launches new web site based on IBM Blog template 

FoCul has launched a new web site based on the new IBM Domino Blog template.

The template is included as part of the Domino system and can be readily adapted to have the same look and feel as other corporate sites - even if they are on a different technology. You can see how we have made the new site look very similar to our old site which was developed on the Mambo system

The system can be used as a web content management system ( as demonstrated here ) or as a blog. To read more about blogging see here and the following list of real world blogs

Ed Brill, Senior IBM Lotus Marketing Person
Alan Lepofsky, IBM Notes Evangalist
Synthetic Organic Manufacturers Association
Chemistry World Blog
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Teesside Safety Group website by FoCul wins award 

Image:Teesside Safety Group website by FoCul wins award The Teesside Safety Group, a charity promoting Health and Safety on Teesside, has won the RoSPA Alan Butler "Best Communications" award for their Website.

Kevin Connor (TSG Chairman) receiving our award for 'Best Communication' at the Alan Butler Awards presentation - with Kerry Ross (SGUK), Lord McKenzie of Luton and Lord Brougham & Vaux




The TSG web site was developed by FoCul as part of our commitment to supporting safety related charities. The websites that we support are :

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