Overview of Manufacturing App Marketplace by Critical Core Group

Who We Are

At Manufacturing App Marketplace (by Critical Core Group - criticalcoregroup.com), we’re a team of passionate business practitioners and technologists, developers and innovators dedicated to empowering manufacturers of all sizes (micro, small, medium and large) through rapid, low-cost digital transformation. At Critical Core Group, we emphasis that we know how data and technology will help. By leveraging our service offering, and Oracle Apex (learn more at apex.oracle.com), the world’s leading enterprise digitalisation platform—we deliver modern apps and technology services that answer your business needs and address critical factory challenges.

Importantly we assist you to advance in a best practice fashion, to compose a uniform, homogenous capability stack where visbility and team collaboration is far improved compared to Excel spreadsheets or other manual siloed systems, and data is no longer fragmented across your organisation due to disparate, siloed systems.

It is cheaper with us, as we provide a truely cost effective and "smart" way to procure apps/service. You order through us through our subscription service (where you can cancel at any time), and we deliver for you your requirements generally within a matter of weeks (first iterations). We then iterate (make your required improvements) over the coming months. Once you review the capability, at any point you are then able to easily choose if you continue with us or change direction (cancel the service, as there is no lock in). Our capability focused apps/services range between a low of $150 USD/month to $1500 USD/month.

Our digital capabilities are often pre-built, and modify / configure to your requirements, or build from the base for more bespoke needs. The capabilities are deployed in a modern manner, via the Cloud, from you dedicated Oracle Apex Service instance, which is deployed in your region of choice to meet regulatory, compliance and data residence needs. Security and scalability is afforded via Oracle's advanced security and scalability offerings, keeping your deployment secure.

The responsibility is on us to deliver an exceptional digital product and experience for your company. You have a low cost partner doing the work for you, and you have the flexibility to seed and explore opportunities with us, and see potential using a world class enterprise grade digitalisation platform.

What We Do

We build modular, composable manufacturing applications—tailored to your unique processes and goals. Whether you need to digitise manual tasks, streamline production planning, implement manufacturing execution systmems, scan your staff in, or integrate IoT capabilities, our apps form building blocks that can be deployed independently or in unison.

We use Oracle Apex to underpin all our apps, as we believe it offers the greatest opportunity and flexibility to our clients, and it includes a world class autonomous database. Automations and GenAI are already embedded in Oracle Apex, so we are able to assist you to explore using automations, GenAI and AI Agents. Another win for you.

How We Do It

We’ve harnessed the agility of Oracle APEX to develop and deploy each app usually within one month. This means you see tangible results fast—without large up-front costs or lock-in contracts. Our approach centers on:

• Rapid Delivery: We prototype, refine, and deploy swiftly.
• Scalable Cloud Infrastructure: Securely hosted in your chosen region, ensuring data residency compliance.
• Continuous Innovation: Features like GenAI, workflows, automations, advanced analytics, database, and APIs make each solution future-proof.

You subscribe to which app / service you desire, then meet with us for introductions. We send to you a requirements questionaire (keeping it relatively simple, yet ensuring complexities are understood), then we go to work behind the scenes.

The Benefits You Will Receive

By choosing us, you avoid high-cost, monolithic systems and instead gain:

• Immediate Impact: Tackle pressing operational inefficiencies quickly.
• Cost-Effective Modernisation: Start small, grow as needed, and pay only for what you use.
• Strategic Flexibility: Build new apps, add to or scale existing capabilities on your digital platform, all under one secure, integrated environment, at low cost.
• Ability to Start, Explore and Seed Opportunity: Many companies don't know where to start to go digital. We provide that opportunity, at low cost, and only in a model where we must deliver to ensure a long lasting and mutually beneficial partnership.

Ready to modernise your operations? Let’s start building the future of your factory, one tailored app at a time.