Mobile Applications
iOS and Android apps for operators, field teams, and customers.
- Works
- Offline, in the field
- Built
- Entirely in-house
Scope
What the work involves
The people who run your operation are rarely sitting at a desk — their plant should fit in their pocket. We build premium iOS and Android applications for both enterprise and consumer use: operator apps that surface line status and alarms, field-service tools that work offline, and customer-facing products polished enough to compete in the app stores. Every app is designed, built, and maintained in-house, connected to your existing systems through clean APIs, and shipped with the same reliability standards we bring to plant-floor software.
In detail
How we approach it
What the engagement actually looks like on your site, start to finish.
Designing for a hand, not a desk
Field and plant apps get used in gloves, in poor light, on a cracked screen, one-handed, while the person is doing something else. That changes the design: larger targets, fewer taps to the common action, and text that stays readable at arm’s length.
It also changes what goes on the first screen. An operator app should open on what is wrong right now, not on a menu.
Offline is the normal case
Coverage inside a plant or at a remote site is unreliable, so we treat offline as the default rather than an error state. Work is captured locally, queued, and synchronised when a connection returns, with conflicts resolved by rules agreed with you rather than by whichever device happened to sync last.
The person using it should never have to think about connectivity. They record what they did; the app deals with the rest.
Release and support
Shipping an app is not the end of it. Both stores change their requirements, operating systems update annually, and an app left alone eventually stops installing. We handle store submissions, review responses, and the maintenance releases that keep it working.
For enterprise apps that never go near a public store, we set up internal distribution so your IT team controls who gets what.
Capabilities
What is included
The line items that make up a typical engagement — scoped up or down to the site.
Native iOS & Android
Offline-first field tools
Operator & alarm apps
App store release management
Push notification infrastructure
Design, build & maintenance
What you receive
- Native iOS and Android applications
- Design files and component library
- Source code and repository ownership
- Store listings and release pipeline, or internal distribution
- Push notification infrastructure
- Maintenance plan for OS and store changes
When this is the right call
- Operators or supervisors who need line status without walking to a terminal
- Field teams recording work at sites with unreliable connectivity
- A paper or WhatsApp process that has outgrown itself
- A customer-facing product that needs to hold its own in the app stores
Common questions
- Native or cross-platform?
- It depends on what the app does. Cross-platform is efficient for content and forms; native is worth it when you need camera, sensor, background or offline behaviour to be dependable. We decide from your feature list, not from habit.
- Do we need to publish to the app stores?
- Only if it is for the public. Internal operator and field apps are usually better distributed privately through your own mobile management, which avoids review delays entirely.
- Will it work without signal in the plant?
- Yes. Data is captured locally and synchronised when a connection returns, with conflict rules agreed with you in advance so two devices editing the same record produce a predictable result.
- What does it cost to keep running?
- Budget for maintenance every year. Operating systems update annually and stores change requirements, so an unmaintained app degrades and eventually stops installing on new devices.
Elsewhere in the stack
Other services
Each discipline stands on its own, and they compound when combined.