Production control software specialist Berkeley Myles reports record-breaking quarter

In the first three months of its financial year, it has seen a 60% increase in the number of new sites installing its ProgressPlus technology, taking the total to a record 220. More than 180 of these are in England and Wales, with new clients won this quarter in Essex, Hampshire, Northants, Devon, Yorkshire and the Midlands. Berkeley Myles's recession-beating performance will push its sales projection for the current year over the £1 million mark, up from £850,000 last year and £650,000 in 2009-2010. Tony MacBride, director (pictured), says: "With this impressive increase in sales across the UK, we are reaping the benefits of a radical new redesign of ProgressPlus, creating a system that is cleaner, more functional and easier to install and use than ever before." With ProgressPlus, Berkeley Myles says it has carved out a significant UK niche in production control software. The company has also, as part of a strategic push to increase local market penetration, rolled out the software to Clydebank-based component manufacturing specialist G&M Precision. Paul Murray, G&M Precision managing director, said: "We are trying to achieve ISO9001 and to do that we need full traceability on all orders, materials, operators and so on. It was a huge bonus to have such comprehensive locally-based support and ongoing training. "It used to be the case that production control software was the preserve of major manufacturing concerns employing thousands of people and operating across the international arena. "ProgressPlus is designed for smaller scale manufacturers and SMEs like us, who have exactly the same need to streamline, automate and integrate the management and control of production and administrative processes."