Company Formation

Our passion is developing collaborative applications that help our customers to be more efficient, more competitive and to demonstrate that they are in control of their key processes.

FoCul was founded in 2000 by Sean Cull, a Manufacturing Engineer who was frustrated by the lack of effective solutions to manage workflow, knowledge and wider collaboration in industry.

We realised from the very start that what would make us different, and hopefully more useful, would be our deep experience of Industry and Business as well as structured processes and accredited IT skills.

We still draw very heavily on our Industrial and Business experience and we are still keenly aware of how it feels to be the customer to an IT organisation.

We are very proud to be both an Advanced IBM Business Partners and an IBM Design Partner and to be delivering applications that provide exceptional value for our customers.

Please contact us if you would like more information on who we are and what we do.

Our Philosophy

FoCul was founded by an end user who was frustrated by the lack of effective collaborative solutions available to industry. From the very start we have taken the very strong view that what is right for our customers will be right for us in the longer term.

We will always look to find the most cost effective solution for you and in the vast majority of cases we will be able to offer solutions on a fixed cost or fixed subscription basis.

We are not a variation driven organisation, We prefer to work with our customers from the early stages of a project to ensure that the project specification delivers the best balance of cost and functionality. We also believe that we should be very good at what we do so we only take on work that matches our strenghts.

We try to be as transparent as possible and use collaborative tools to deliver our projects. You can see this in this project file which is from a real project.

Finally we are genuinely interested in how other people use collaborative tools. If you have any ideas that you would like to discuss please give us a call. We don't employ sales people and we don't believe in a "hard sell". We prefer to talk to you about your needs, show you what we do and hope to find some common ground where we can work together.

Testimonials

““Working with FoCul has delivered quality and efficiency improvement to our consultancy processes and services, whilst retaining the ability to customise work processes at short notice to meet specific customer needs

The benefit has been a 30% efficiency saving, allowing ABB to deliver over £12M of studies more competitively since 2002” 
David Stanier, Principal Consultant, ABB
“The FoCul electronic Invoice Approval System is an excellent example of how processes can be simplified and improved by changing the conventional ways of doing things.”
 
Quality Award Citation, Multinational Chemical Company

“The Manufacturing Information System has become the back bone of our operational communications.

The automatic dashboard report sets the mood of the whole site in terms of HSEQ and Production performance and requires no additional effort to collate.
In our Lean Manufacturing environment, we couldn't function effectively without it !!

FoCul built in flexibility at the concept design stages that has allowed ongoing modifications to adapt to changing demands with minimal effort."

Operations Manager, Elementis

"FoCul's key strength is in understanding our manufacturing environment and translating our needs into solutions that really do reduce costs and improve control."
Stephen Medlock, Senior Engineer, Lucite International
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