Digital MFG

Independent · Manchester · London · Est. 2014

The decks were alwaysthe cheapest part.

I help small-to-medium manufacturers buy and run the digital systems they actually need. MES, ERP, shop-floor data — chosen on operator fit, not vendor theatre, and supported through to the part where it sticks.

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0+ yrs

UK plant floors

0+

MES/ERP rollouts

0 days

Post-launch hand-holding

§ The signature

An assembly line, twice over.

The work, the wordmark — both built the same way: parts in, stamped, out the door.

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§ Assembled, not assembled-looking

Fixed scope✦Agreed pricing after intro✦30-day exit✦Direct practitioner access✦Operator empathy✦Floor-first diagnosis✦No retainers without an out✦Fixed scope✦Agreed pricing after intro✦30-day exit✦Direct practitioner access✦Operator empathy✦Floor-first diagnosis✦No retainers without an out✦Fixed scope✦Agreed pricing after intro✦30-day exit✦Direct practitioner access✦Operator empathy✦Floor-first diagnosis✦No retainers without an out✦

§ 01 — Operating principles

Anti-agency, by design.

Three rules, written before the first invoice. They are why clients return, and why some don't sign in the first place.

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Direct practitioner access

You speak to the person walking your floor. No account managers, no shadow teams, no PowerPoint relay.

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Fixed scope, agreed up front

Scope and price agreed in writing before any deposit; retainers keep a 30-day exit. No surprises.

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Operator empathy

Twenty years on plant floors before I owned a deck. Recommendations survive contact with the line because they were built on it.

§ 02 — Engagements

Four shapes of help.
Scope and price agreed before any deposit.

Pick by problem, not by hour. Every engagement has a fixed deliverable; every retainer carries a 30-day exit.

Full engagement detail →Or skip ahead and book a call →

§ 03 — The work

Same shape, every time.

01

Walk the floor

I show up. We start where work happens, not where slides do. Operators, supervisors, the systems they swear at.

02

Diagnose, then disagree

Findings before solutions. We argue about them. If I'm wrong about your line, better to know now than at quarter-end.

03

Sequence and price

The right answer is rarely 'install the platform.' It's a sequence — quick wins, infrastructure, capability, scale.

04

Support post-launch

Every engagement includes 90 days of retention. The system you bought is only worth what your team can run on Monday.

§ Operator

Shoaib Rizvi.

Twenty years on plant floors before the first deck.

Joined a brownfield glass plant at 19 as a process apprentice. Ran his first MES selection at 27 and learned, the hard way, that the vendor with the best deck almost never has the best system for the actual line.

Spent the next decade inside automotive tier-1s and food & beverage groups — Sheffield, Coventry, Northampton, Manchester — owning rollouts that mattered and bearing the operational scars when they didn't go cleanly.

Founded Digital MFG in 2014 to run the engagement model he wished he'd been able to buy from the other side: fixed scope, agreed pricing, the person walking the floor is the person writing the recommendation. Anti-agency by design.

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Industries served

35

MES rollouts

0

Sub-contractors

§ 04 — Get in touch

Not ready to book?
Just write.

I read every email myself. If a Discovery isn't the right shape, I'll say so — and point you toward who is.

Cities
Manchester · London
Registered office
71–75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ

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