Manufacturing.
The factory cycle, from the first managers' surveys to output, orders and prices.
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What it answers.
- Are factories in the US, Europe and Asia speeding up or slowing down, and which economies turned this month?
- Are the factory-gate prices named in our supply contracts rising faster or more slowly than three months ago?
- If orders slump sharply, what could our customers' industries order over the next two quarters, and how bad could it get?
- When European industry confidence falls two months running, does factory output really fall within two months?
- Has anything we sell, or anything like it, been banned or recalled in the UK, the EU or the US this week?
- Has this maker recalled anything before, and for which faults?
Who uses it.
Purchasing directors at manufacturers
When to lock in steel, resin and part prices. Factory-gate prices on release morning put this month's figures into every contract review.
Sales and production planners at component and equipment suppliers
Setting next quarter's build plan and shift pattern. A monthly view of whether customers' order books are filling or emptying tests the plan first.
Macro desks and economists at banks and funds
Is this factory figure a real surprise? Its trend, the prior survey and its usual revision, beside it the moment it lands.
Product-safety teams at retailers, importers and online marketplaces
Pull a banned or recalled item fast. Every new UK, EU and US notice, matched by model, batch and barcode, replaces a slow manual check.
Supplier quality engineers at car, appliance and medical-device makers
Approve a supplier or new part? The maker's recall history by component and fault puts repeat faults in the file, not on the production line.
What we model, test and run.
The cycle turning down
New orders lag shipments, factory-gate prices ease, capacity use slips, several economies turn at once. Recognised the moment it forms, with what it likely means for output, orders and prices.
One part, two regions
Steel, resin or part prices can climb in one region and ease in another. Freight, duty, currency and supplier qualification sit between. When does the gap beat them?
Confidence before output
When a European economy's industry confidence falls two months running, does its output follow within two months? How often, and how far.
Order-book downturn run
A downturn run on your order book and price-linked contracts: likely order intake, input prices and backlog, and how bad it could get.
Recall and price action engine
A recall lands: matching stock held, a listing pulled, a supplier case opened. An index moves: a price review raised. Runs in your systems, on your rules.
What we build for you.
Factory-cycle radar
Each major factory economy plotted above or below its twelve-month trend, rising or falling. Dots move as figures land. A counter shows how many grew and whether they turn together.
Release calendar and first-print record
Every factory release as first printed, beside a calendar of what lands when. Alerts when a revision flips a rise into a fall, or the reverse.
Order-book and price model
Industry by industry: are US factories taking orders faster than they ship? For each price index in your contracts, the estimated range at the next review.
Recall matcher
Your product list, by model, batch and barcode, checked against every new UK, EU and US recall. Vehicles, tyres and child car seats too. Do-not-drive recalls go to the top.
Hazard spread model
Every dangerous product flagged in the UK, EU or US, by type, hazard and origin. How soon similar goods are likely to be flagged elsewhere.
Delivered to you.
Monthly factory-cycle reading
After each month's releases: is each major economy's factory sector expanding, slowing or contracting? What changed, and what lands next.
Contract price notes
Release morning: every factory-gate series named in your contracts. Its change since the last review, any correction, and the estimated range to the next.
Recall assistant for importers and marketplaces
In your team chat: product lists screened against every new UK, EU and US safety notice. Each match goes to the team that must act.
Supplier recall reviews
Before a contract or a root-cause review: the maker's recall history. By component and fault, across goods, vehicles and medical devices, against its industry.
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