The Problem
Our client encountered an issue many manufacturing companies experience on a daily basis: How can they efficiently report production line and workflow errors to superiors while maintaining accountability? As a result, our client approached us looking for a social-media style mobile application that would allow them to track the progress of their manufacturing projects.
Our Solution
After reviewing our clients requirements, we decided the best solution was to build an Instagram-like mobile application that enables employees to publicly report production errors. This meant building a mobile app for internal use with social features such as liking, commenting, and uploading photos to a feed.
What We Did
Social Features
We created a social-media style feed that allows users to publicly upload photos of the production line. Users can then comment and react to posts with emojis or even respond to posts with additional videos and images. We also leveraged native notification capabilities to prompt users when new images are posted or when users interact with posts.
Project Creation
Production projects can be uploaded to the system manually or imported using a text file. When users upload posts, they can choose which project the image corresponds with, along with tags denoting progress. This helps admins and managers monitor the status of manufacturing projects.
User Management
Unlike typical social media platforms, we created a user management system that enables admins to create and invite user accounts while deleting them and changing permissions when needed. This means that, as employees come and go, managers can update their teams accordingly, keeping internal information secure.
Admin Web App
While regular users have access to the mobile application version of the platform, we also built a web app for managers to ensure effective management of the platform. With this feature, admins can conveniently upload projects, create tags and posts, and manage user accounts.
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Aviation Marketplace Platform
The team was very responsive and easy to work with. They are professional, talented, and experienced team. They were able to meet all our requirements.
Idea Maker is distinguished for their personalized collaboration and white glove services. The team is dependable and reliable, sticking to the project's plan, offering feedback, and pushing back on the right things.
The way they understand the requirements we present to them is fairly solid. Both in terms of bringing their own interpretation in nailing the requirements and their design sense. By the time we launched, I had gotten significantly more value from our collaboration than what we had discussed in the original specs.
This is a boutique development firm where the Founder is directly involved with the project and the primary contact. This is unlike many development firms where you are simply handed off to developers that are not stakeholders. This is an important distinction that results in much better project accountability.
I have never had a site like this built before. I felt that Idea Maker and Tom had built numerous sites like this, and they were pros.
Idea Maker's portfolio is what drew us in. Their design style was in alignment with what we were after. We had initial consultations with 3 companies that we had narrowed it down to. Once we had our initial meeting with Tom at Idea Maker we knew we had the right choice to make. Their communication style works well for us.
Their customer service is excellent — they’re incredibly accessible and available, which I appreciate. Furthermore, they have enough experience and bandwidth to fulfill all my needs. They’re one of the best vendors I’ve worked with.
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