Power Automate workflow automation for the processes costing your business the most time
If a process involves a human copying data, chasing an email, or filling in a form that feeds another form, it can almost certainly be automated. Power Automate is the engine we use to do it, and below are the six categories of work we automate most often for UK FM, construction and manufacturing teams.
Power Automate Approval Workflows
Multi-stage approval chains for purchase orders, permits, RAMS, variations and policy changes. Full audit trails, escalation logic and deadline enforcement built in.
System Integrations
Bi-directional data flows between Power Platform and your ERP, CAFM, HR system or any application with a REST API, ending manual rekeying permanently.
Proactive Alerts
SLA breach warnings, compliance deadline reminders and KPI threshold notifications via Teams, email and SMS, raised before issues become problems.
Document Automation
Automated PDF generation, document routing, data extraction from incoming documents and digital signature collection, reducing document processing to seconds.
Scheduled Automations Power Automate Handles
Nightly data synchronisation, weekly report distribution, monthly compliance checks and any recurring process that should not require a human to trigger it.
Onboarding Workflows
Employee, contractor and subcontractor onboarding flows that coordinate tasks across HR, IT, compliance and finance, ensuring nothing is missed and everything is documented.
Power Automate workflow automation designed to run unattended for years
Most automations are built quickly and then quietly break six months later, because nobody planned for the day a connector times out, a record schema changes or a signing user leaves the business. Our Power Automate workflow automation builds plan for those days from the start. Error handling, retry logic, run history, monitoring and proper documentation are baked in, not bolted on afterwards.
That discipline matters most in regulated environments. Power Automate for construction in particular has to survive RAMS reviews, variation approval chains, subcontractor onboarding and audit trails that have to hold up months later. For the canonical reference we work from, see the Microsoft Power Automate documentation on Microsoft Learn.
What our FM, Construction and Manufacturing clients automate
The list below is what UK clients in these three sectors typically automate first. Power Automate for construction in particular tends to start with RAMS and variations, while FM teams usually start with SLA escalations.
- PPM scheduling and engineer tasking
- SLA breach escalation and reporting
- Subcontractor compliance chasing
- Monthly KPI report distribution
- HR onboarding workflows
- Site mobilisation coordination
- RAMS review and sign-off chains
- Subcontractor document chasing
- Variation approval workflows
- Defects close-out notifications
- NCR assignment and escalation
- Production downtime alerts
- Supplier compliance reminders
- Shift report distribution
- Maintenance work order creation
Flows built to be resilient, observable and maintainable
Too many Power Automate flows are built quickly, work for six months and then silently fail. They have no error handling, no monitoring and no documentation. We build differently, and that discipline is what keeps Power Automate workflow automation running for years instead of weeks.
- Error handling and retry logic built into every flow
- Monitoring and alerting so failures are caught immediately
- Full flow documentation delivered on handover
- Run history and logging so issues can be diagnosed quickly
- ALM pipeline, flows deployed through Dev, Test and Production
500+ Workflows Deployed
Extensive automation experience across FM, construction and manufacturing. We've solved this problem before.
98% Reliability Rate
Flows that run when they should. Robust error handling, retry logic and monitoring ensure your automations work consistently.
50 Hours Reclaimed Weekly
Typical client savings from eliminating manual data entry, approval chasing and repetitive admin tasks.
60% Reduction in Errors
Remove human error from data transfer, compliance checks and document routing. Accuracy you can audit.
Which process should we automate first?
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