Customer Testimonials

Pressure Hoses

Leading supplier of hydraulic hose assemblies to names such as Komatsu, AGCO Massey Ferguson and the JCB group with a turnover of over £10 million. Thanks to Javelin this ten-fold increase in business is still handled by the same number of administrative staff the company had 10 years ago.

“Javelin is universally viewed as ‘our system’ and provides the levels of control and information we need to manage the production of more than 100,000 assemblies per month. It has also helped to improve our responsiveness and slash both our order processing and manufacturing lead times.”

“It is an extremely flexible system that can be tailored to individual customers’ requirements. From our point of view, its capabilities are at the heart of everything we do. In fact, we simply could not run at our current levels without it.”

Pam Yates, Company Director

AIM Engineering

With 70 employees and a turnover of almost £6 million, AIM Engineering has grown to be one of the leaders in its field, supplying organisations such as Red Bull Racing, BAe and Airbus Industrie with high precision gauging, tooling and set-up fixtures.

“Most of the other vendors simply talked a good story. But when I saw Javelin in action for myself, I could immediately see it would fulfil all of our requirements. It covers everything from costing and estimating to the automatic generation of user-definable cutting lists and works orders, routings, BOMs, materials requirements, plan times, delivery dates and customer details; all in a fully integrated package.”

“It has clearly been developed to enable real world manufacturing operations, like ours, to take complete control of their manufacturing processes.”

Alan Foster, Director

Iona Unitool

With customers predominately in the aerospace and medical equipment sectors, the 45 strong Iona Unitool Group faces the combined problems of producing complex prototype components alongside repeat batch work for two of the most demanding markets in the UK.

“Javelin gives us accurate and up-to-the-moment information on which to run the business. I am impressed that it has the capability to knit together both sides of our operations - and their different requirements.”

“Javelin is at the heart of everything we do, from initial estimating and costing through to despatch, invoicing and contract review. Our company has never made an operating loss in its 25 year history and I am convinced that we simply could not retain our position in such competitive markets without Javelin’s help.”

Mike Sullivan, Managing Director

Gardner Aerospace

The Gardner Group aims to provide a ‘Total Manufacturing Service’ to aerospace industry customers that include the likes of Rolls-Royce, Airbus UK and BAE Systems.

“Good software needs to be backed by good support, which is what we get from Javelin. We employ more of the system’s capabilities than most other users and have always found the Javelin team to be very responsive to any queries or issues we’ve raised."

“I also like the fact that we have a single, nominated point of contact, which has undoubtedly helped to build a very good relationship between our two companies.”

Gary Field, Group Systems Manager