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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Solutions available to rent by the month 

FoCul has been approved as an IBM Lotus Notes / Domino ISV ( Independent Software Vendor ) and will now be offering the solutions in the Delivery Toolkit suite on a monthly rental or subscription basis. This is an ideal way for businesses to start making savings and improving control for a much lower initial outlay.

We are also considering providing bespoke solutions on a similar basis. If you are interested please do not hesitate to contact us.

Delivery Toolkit - a new suite of shrinkwrapped software from FoCul 

We are very proud to launch a new range of shrink wrapped software under the banner of the "Delivery Toolkit".

We have been working hard for the last 18 months to bring you some of our best solutions in a shrink wrapped form which can be deployed quickly and yet are configurable to your needs.

The Delivery Toolkit will allow you to


Reduce Costs
Improve Control
Improve Efficiency


Image:Delivery Toolkit - a new suite of shrinkwrapped software from FoCul
Please see our new website at www.deliverytoolkit.com.

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