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Since 2004 we've worked with steelmakers, manufacturers and building-materials companies: quality and maintenance systems, process mapping before SAP, ERP selection and strategic planning.
AVILA®, a technology and business consulting firm in Monterrey, Mexico, has worked with manufacturing, steel and building-materials companies since 2004. We build systems for quality, maintenance and collaboration, and we consult on processes, ERP selection and strategic planning, so technology follows operations and not the other way around.
Monterrey is one of Mexico's most important industrial regions, and the companies we know share similar problems regardless of size:
Information silos. Quality, maintenance, production and purchasing run on different systems, spreadsheets and email; nobody has the full number on time.
ERPs that don't deliver what they promised. Many implementations fail because they automated a process that was never documented or agreed on.
Paper on the plant floor. Inspection forms, work orders and logs that get entered twice, or never.
Turnover and training. Every role needs to know which procedure applies and which version of the document is current.
Strategy that never reaches operations. Leadership's goals don't turn into metrics each area understands and follows.
A weak digital presence in B2B sales. Websites that don't show up in search or explain the technical catalog well, right when buyers research online, increasingly with AI assistants.
Custom management systems for quality, documents, training, maintenance and inventory, integrated with your ERP. See custom software and web apps.
Maintenance platforms with preventive plans, work orders and tracking dashboards per plant.
Mobile apps for shop-floor data capture, inspections and sales-team catalogs.
Corporate websites and catalogs with technical SEO, so your products show up when a buyer searches for them. See websites and e-commerce.
Infrastructure, Azure cloud and Microsoft 365, with support and security for offices and plants.
Our consulting focuses on technology, processes and business planning, which is where manufacturers win or lose the most:
Process mapping and redesign before implementing SAP or another ERP, so you automate clear, agreed-upon processes.
Unbiased ERP, CRM and MRP selection, with a prior assessment, written requirements and a side-by-side vendor evaluation.
Strategic planning with the Balanced Scorecard, with objectives and metrics for each division.
Organizational and IT assessments to decide what to change first.
The steel industry was one of the first to trust us. Between 2004 and 2006 we built a Java quality management system for a steelmaker, with more than 10,000 person-hours of work, replacing Lotus Notes: processes across 12 core document types, role-based training control and an org chart synced with SAP. In 2010 we built a collaboration, contingency and crisis system for another steel company, using the MoProSoft methodology. And between 2004 and 2011 we implemented a division-level Balanced Scorecard at a steelmaker.
In consulting, between 2004 and 2011 we mapped a manufacturer's value chain ahead of its SAP rollout and supported ERP selection and implementation at several manufacturers, always starting with an assessment. We also delivered strategic alignment, planning workshops and IT redesign for industrial companies. In technology, in 2022 we built industrial software for a manufacturer; in 2024, a SaaS maintenance-planning platform for a company that provides industrial maintenance services to plants, with tracking dashboards; and in 2025, WordPress corporate websites with technical SEO for manufacturers.
In 2007 we built a web platform to quote and sell marble countertops in the United States, with kitchen configuration, piece calculation and online payment. In 2013 we developed an iOS inspiration and catalog app for a ceramics company, and for the sector we've also managed cloud, Microsoft 365, domains, certificates and hosting.
01 Case studies
Manufacturing · 2024
A company that provides industrial maintenance services runs a SaaS platform to manage the maintenance plans for its customers' plants and track them on dashboards.
Manufacturing · 2011
A manufacturing company mapped its value chain processes before implementing SAP, so it could reach the ERP configuration with clear, agreed-upon processes.
Manufacturing · 2011
Several manufacturing companies chose and implemented their ERP with AVILA®'s support, starting from a prior assessment of their processes and technology.
For manufacturing, steel and building materials, we build custom systems (quality, maintenance, documents, training), mobile apps for the plant floor and for sales, websites with technical SEO, and Microsoft infrastructure and cloud. In consulting, we do process mapping, unbiased ERP selection, strategic planning with the Balanced Scorecard and IT assessments. We work from Monterrey for companies in Mexico and the United States.
Yes. An ERP automates the way your company works; if processes aren't clear and agreed on, the system just speeds up the mess. Mapping the value chain before implementation lets you define owners, control points and requirements, and it cuts expensive changes mid-project. That's what we did with a manufacturer before its SAP implementation.
We start with an assessment of processes and needs, write the requirements and turn them into a request for proposals (RFP). Then we evaluate every vendor against the same criteria, weighted by what matters most in your operation. The decision ends up documented and can be explained to leadership, finance and business users, not just to IT.
Yes. Our systems integrate with ERPs such as SAP through their interfaces or, when there are none, through scheduled file exchanges. One example is the quality system we built for a steelmaker, whose org chart synced with SAP to keep roles and the training each one required up to date.
Yes. In 2024 we built a SaaS maintenance-planning platform, with tracking dashboards, for a company that provides industrial maintenance services to plants. This kind of system organizes preventive plans, work orders and compliance by asset and by plant, and gives leadership a clear view of maintenance status without relying on spreadsheets.
Yes, when it's built by division and cascades down to the metrics each area controls. The Balanced Scorecard turns strategy into financial, customer, process and learning objectives, each with its own metric and target. We implemented it by division at a steelmaker, connecting top management's goals with day-to-day operations.
Yes. We build corporate websites with catalogs and technical SEO, so your products show up when a buyer searches on Google or asks an AI assistant. In 2025 we built WordPress websites with technical SEO for manufacturers. If you also need content strategy and social media, we offer it through our sister company tresensocial.
Let's start with a process and technology assessment. We'll tell you what to build, what to buy and what to straighten out first.