This quarter our spotlight turns to Decade Monitoring Solutions, a UK owned and based company providing products and services to the manufacturing industry, offering off-the-shelf products and development of bespoke systems.

We sat down with Paul Tandy, Operations Director, to find out more:

Can you tell us about the history of Decade Monitoring Solutions?
Decade has been going for about 35 years now! It all began with John Davis, who started producing the first analogue load monitoring systems and ran the company for around 25 years. John then passed ownership to the Sales Director and since then it’s changed hands a few times. I started working at Decade as an Engineer around 11 years ago, however I came back 5 years ago to restart the company. Myself and my fellow directors completed a management buyout last year.

How have the last 12 months been for Decade Monitoring Solutions?
The last 12 months have been fantastic, our best year so far! We’ve had increased sales of 72%, so it couldn’t have gone much better.

What are the main services that Decade Monitoring Solutions provides?
Our main services are press load monitoring and production recording for factories. Historically, it’s just been press load monitoring, but production recording has been growing. It’s becoming our biggest selling product!

What would you say is Decade Monitoring Solutions USP?
We design and build everything in-house at Decade, so we can make it bespoke to our customers requirements. Sometimes, clients will say ‘we like this, but can it do XYZ’ and we have the capabilites to deliver exactly what they want.

Where do you see Decade Monitoring Solutions in the next 5/10 years?
We will continue to focus on the growth of production recording and spread out of just working in press shops, with the aim to work in all production environments.

What made Decade Monitoring Solutions become a member of the MMMA?
The MMMA has a fantastic range of members, many of which are press companies. This meant it was the perfect networking hub for Decade and an overall excellent organisation to be part of!

What can we expect to see from Decade Monitoring Solutions at MACH 2020?
We’re set to show exciting new products and software, updated monitoring and improved production recording services. We’ll be there for the whole duration – Make sure to stop by!

Check out Decade Monitoring Solutions member site here