Software Development in Derby

Software for Derby businesses

Derby is one of the UK's great engineering cities. Rolls-Royce has its civil aerospace and nuclear operations here, Alstom builds trains at the Litchurch Lane works, and Toyota's car plant is just outside the city at Burnaston. Around those big names sits a large supply chain of precision engineering, machining, fabrication and test businesses, many of them on industrial estates and business parks across the city and South Derbyshire, including Infinity Park and Pride Park.

The University of Derby works closely with local industry, and the city also has a growing digital sector and a significant number of finance, insurance and professional services firms, several based around Pride Park.

Engineering supply chains place particular demands on software. Customers at the top of the chain expect full traceability, so a supplier needs to know which material batch, which machine and which operator produced each part. Quality paperwork, inspection results and certificates of conformity need to be produced quickly and stored safely. Many suppliers run a mature ERP for accounts and stock, but use spreadsheets for everything else: shop floor data, non-conformance reports, tooling records and capacity planning.

That is where a bespoke web app connected to the ERP pays off. Typical Derby projects might include:

• Shop floor data capture on tablets, linked to works orders in the ERP
• Traceability records and automatic certificate generation as PDFs
• Supplier and customer portals with role-based access and audit logs
• Dashboards showing on-time delivery, scrap and machine utilisation

Rail and aerospace work also tends to come with strict information security expectations, so we design access control and hosting carefully.

dijitul has no Derby office. We work from Mansfield, close enough for a site visit, and run projects remotely with fixed-price quotes.

Who we build for in Derby

• Aerospace engineering suppliers
• Rail engineering firms
• Automotive suppliers
• Precision machining and fabrication
• Insurance and financial services
• Professional services firms
• Wholesalers and distributors

How we work with Derby clients

We work remotely from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, using video calls, shared staging sites you can click around in and short build stages you can see. Every project gets a fixed-price quote after a free initial chat and a short scoping stage. You own the code and the data. We have been building software and integrations for UK businesses since 2006.

1. Free chat

   Tell us the problem in plain English: what you do now, what goes wrong and what "better" looks like. No charge, no obligation.

2. Scoping

   We map the processes, systems and data involved, agree what is in and out, and write it down so there are no surprises.

3. Fixed-price quote

   You get a fixed price for the agreed scope, or a phased plan for bigger builds, so you can start small and prove it works.

4. Build and test

   We build in short stages you can see and try, test against real data, then go live carefully with a rollback plan.

5. Hand over and look after

   You own the code and the data. We can host it, support it and keep improving it, or hand it to your own team.

What we build in Derby

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Nearby

• Mansfield
• Nottingham
• Leicester
• Lincoln
• Northampton
• Chesterfield
• Loughborough
• Newark-on-Trent
• Sutton-in-Ashfield
• Kirkby-in-Ashfield
• Worksop
• Hucknall
• Ilkeston
• Long Eaton