Preparing Metal Fabricators for success with EMDA
and Infor.

Metal fabricators aren’t struggling to invest in technology.
They’re struggling to get value out of it.

The value lost in quoting, materials, production, and communication is easy to miss.

For 25 years in partnership with the world’s leading manufacturing ERP Infor, EMDA has helped ANZ manufacturers find that lost value. And in 2025, Infor named us Asia Pacific Resell Partner of the Year in industrial manufacturing.

This page brings together practical insight, real operational thinking, and the tools to help you find where the friction lives in your shop, and remove it. Whether you’re considering Infor CSI/Syteline or CSIE/LN for the first time, or already running one of them and ready for what’s next, what’s possible is here.

Report: How Possible Happens in manufacturing

In this report, you’ll find detailed analysis of Infor’s research findings into
manufacturing, the key attributes that define the most productive organisations
such as agentic AI adoption, as well as the breakdown of key focus areas for Metal
Fabricators and a focused exploration into actions you can take to unlock value.

What you’ll explore:

  • The rapid scale of pace in Metal Fabrication.
  • The challenges manufacturers face (the value void).
  • The solution to challenges (Vectors to Value).
  • How to unlock productivity.

What a day that flows without friction looks like
for Metal Fabricators.

Two versions of the same day. Same orders. Same people. One day
where everything lags a step behind and one where every moment lands on time.

Our infographic shows exactly where the frictions show up and what it looks like
when they’ve been seen, actioned and completed.

Inside:

  • Five moments across one working day, told through the people who live them.
  • The friction track: behind, and out of sync.
  • The flow track: on time, and in sync.
Download the infographic

From friction to flow in Metal Fabrication.

Operational friction is costing you more than you think.

Metal Fabricators are more digitally invested than they’re given credit for. And still,
productivity is lost in the gaps between systems and the people who run them.
They know the frictions that cause tensions within the organisations. What’s lacking
is the ability to act quickly and decisively.

EMDA collaborated with Infor to develop a thought leadership piece that reveals
what lost productivity looks like, and how the most productive Fabricators optimise
their technological investment and resolve the frictions within their organisation.

Discover:

  • The 42% performance gap separating the leaders from the rest.
  • Three practices that take the friction out of the day.
  • How EMDA helped Wedgelock and BA Pumps & Sprayers to deliver integrated, single sources of truths.

Ready to see what friction is costing you?

Over the past few weeks, we’ve explored how AI is helping businesses move from
friction to flow — through new thinking, practical insight and real operational
change. Now it’s time to put that into practice.

EMDA has helped over 150 manufacturers and distributors across ANZ deliver
measurable bottom-line returns from end-to-end ERP. We know what works for
fabricators your size, because we’ve been doing this since 1998, locally, with the
backing of Infor’s world-leading manufacturing technology.

Request a friction assessment

We’ll show you where friction is costing you today and what a connected
operation can unlock tomorrow. Together, we can keep your organisation
flowing as efficiently as possible.

Get in touch

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