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Custom Software & Automation for Granby, Quebec Manufacturers

Global Maple System builds practical software and automation for the manufacturers, processors and industrial employers of the Parc industriel de Granby — built to help you get more done with the skilled people you already have.

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  • Acute labour shortage across manufacturing trades: a 2025 Granby Industriel survey found 137 companies in the industrial park planned to recruit 719 people in 2026 despite an aging workforce and intense inter-company competition for talent
  • Persistent unmet demand for specific skilled roles (production operators, industrial mechanics, forklift operators, welders, machinists, and process/quality engineers) that companies struggle to fill
  • Employers are turning to automation and robotization specifically to reduce dependence on scarce unskilled and skilled labour, per Granby Industriel's own workforce report
  • Sector-level employment volatility in 2025 (food & beverage -109 positions, transportation equipment -153, plastics & rubber -160) requiring better production and workforce planning

AI & Automation · Granby

With Granby Industriel's own 2025 survey showing 137 park employers chasing 719 unfilled positions and pointing straight at automation and robotization as the fix, there's a documented, employer-driven mandate for AI-powered software that lets existing crews do more instead of employers competing over the same scarce hires.

Doing business in Granby

Granby's industrial base is bigger than most people expect from a city its size. The Parc industriel de Granby covers roughly 1,550 acres and is home to more than 160 companies, generating over 9,000 direct jobs — with the 2025 industrial survey putting the workforce at 8,975 people and median hourly wages between $25 and $31. Anchor employers like Agropur, Prinoth, Velan and NSE Automatech built their operations here, and the Zoo de Granby adds a major tourism-sector employer to the mix. This is a working city, and it runs on manufacturing.

That base spans aerospace and aeronautics component manufacturing, ground transportation and special vehicle production, food and beverage processing, industrial valves and metal products, small and medium-scale hydroelectric engineering, and plastics and rubber manufacturing. It's a dense, diverse industrial mix concentrated in one park, which means Granby manufacturers aren't just competing against companies in other cities — they're competing with their neighbours in the same park for the same welders, machinists and production operators, and often for the same subcontracting relationships with larger OEMs.

That competition has a number attached to it. Granby Industriel's 2025 workforce survey found 137 companies in the industrial park planning to recruit 719 people in 2026, against an aging workforce and roles — production operators, industrial mechanics, forklift operators, welders, machinists, process and quality engineers — that stay open longer than anyone would like. Some sectors are also volatile: food and beverage lost 109 positions in 2025, transportation equipment lost 153, and plastics and rubber lost 160. More companies are recruiting internationally to fill the gap, and more are turning to automation and robotization to reduce how much they depend on labour that's simply hard to find.

That's where we come in. Global Maple System is an AI-first software, web and automation studio, and Granby is exactly the kind of city we build for: real production lines, real quality standards tied to OEM customers, and real pressure to do more with the team you already have. Whether you're near Cégep de Granby, working with the Chambre de commerce et d'industrie Haute-Yamaska, or just trying to keep your shop floor running, we build the software for it.

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What Granby businesses tell us

  • ✕ Acute labour shortage across manufacturing trades: a 2025 Granby Industriel survey found 137 companies in the industrial park planned to recruit 719 people in 2026 despite an aging workforce and intense inter-company competition for talent
  • ✕ Persistent unmet demand for specific skilled roles (production operators, industrial mechanics, forklift operators, welders, machinists, and process/quality engineers) that companies struggle to fill
  • ✕ Employers are turning to automation and robotization specifically to reduce dependence on scarce unskilled and skilled labour, per Granby Industriel's own workforce report
  • ✕ Sector-level employment volatility in 2025 (food & beverage -109 positions, transportation equipment -153, plastics & rubber -160) requiring better production and workforce planning
  • ✕ Growing reliance on international recruitment to fill vacancies, creating a need for structured onboarding and workforce-integration processes
  • ✕ A dense cluster of 160+ manufacturing SMEs in one industrial park competing for the same regional labour pool and subcontracting relationships with larger OEMs (e.g., Bombardier, GE, Bell Helicopter), which raises the bar for production tracking, traceability and quality documentation
What we build

For Granby's key industries

Aerospace and aeronautics manufacturing

Granby's aerospace and aeronautics cluster includes about 20 companies employing roughly 1,000 people directly, with the wider ecosystem supporting close to 2,000 jobs. NSE Automatech, based in the industrial park, is a precision machining supplier to Bombardier, GE and Bell Helicopter — work that runs on strict quality documentation and traceability standards. For shops feeding that supply chain, software that logs inspections, tracks parts through every process step, and produces audit-ready reports isn't optional; it's what keeps a contract with a major OEM. We build exactly that kind of production and quality-tracking system.

Ground transportation equipment and special vehicle manufacturing

Prinoth, maker of snow groomers and tracked utility vehicles, runs its North American headquarters out of Granby — one of the industrial park's anchor employers. The transportation equipment sector saw a swing of 153 fewer positions in 2025, the kind of volatility that makes production scheduling and workforce planning genuinely hard to manage by spreadsheet. Whether you're a tier supplier or building complete vehicles, software that ties order volume, staffing levels and shop-floor output together gives you a far clearer picture than reacting month to month.

Food and beverage processing

Agropur, the dairy cooperative founded right here in Granby in 1938, is proof of how deep the region's food and beverage roots go. The sector shed 109 positions in 2025 even as demand for skilled production operators stayed tight — a gap that plant managers feel on every shift. We build production tracking, quality-log and scheduling tools that help dairy and confectionery operations run leaner crews more efficiently, without losing the traceability records regulators and customers expect.

Industrial valve and metal products manufacturing

Velan has manufactured industrial valves in Granby since 1976, part of a broader metal products sector that competes hard for machinists, welders and industrial mechanics — three of the roles that stay hardest to fill locally. When you can't simply hire your way out of a backlog, the next-best lever is software: work-order systems, machine-utilization dashboards and quality documentation that help a smaller crew move more parts through the shop without sacrificing accuracy.

Plastics and rubber manufacturing

Plastics and rubber manufacturing in Granby's industrial park lost 160 positions in 2025, a reminder of how exposed this sector is to demand swings. For operators trying to plan production and staffing through that kind of volatility, forecasting tools and integrated shop-floor data beat gut-feel scheduling every time. We build systems that connect order intake to machine scheduling and staffing needs, so plastics and rubber processors can flex production up or down with real numbers instead of guesswork.

How we help

Built for Granby businesses

Workforce & Recruitment Systems

Granby Industriel's 2025 survey found 137 Parc industriel companies planning to recruit 719 people in 2026 against an aging workforce. We build recruitment pipelines, applicant tracking and structured onboarding software — including workflows for internationally recruited hires — so every open requisition moves faster and new employees ramp up without relying on tribal knowledge.

Production Tracking & OEM-Grade Traceability

Supplying OEMs like Bombardier, GE or Bell Helicopter — or simply competing against 160+ other Parc industriel companies for that work — means quality documentation has to be airtight. We build traceability and production-tracking systems that log every step, part and inspection, so audits and customer quality reviews stop being a scramble.

Shop-Floor Automation & Robotics Integration

Granby Industriel's own workforce report points to automation and robotization as employers' main lever against the skilled-labour shortage. We design and integrate the software layer around that automation — connecting machines, sensors and existing systems — so a smaller crew can run more of the shop.

Production & Workforce Planning Tools

2025 brought real swings across Granby's industrial sectors — food and beverage down 109 positions, transportation equipment down 153, plastics and rubber down 160. We build planning tools that connect order volume, staffing and machine capacity, so those swings show up on a dashboard weeks before they show up in overtime costs.

Custom Business Software & Web Platforms

Not every Granby business runs on the industrial park floor. For the shops and services along Rue Principale, Boulevard Leclerc, Les Halles de Granby and the Galeries de Granby, we build the websites, booking systems and back-office software that let a small team compete without hiring a full IT department.

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Industries we serve in Granby

Aerospace and aeronautics manufacturing (aircraft components, composite materials) Ground transportation equipment and special vehicle manufacturing (snow groomers, transit vehicles) Food and beverage processing (dairy, confectionery) Industrial valve and metal products manufacturing Small and medium-scale hydroelectric engineering Plastics and rubber manufacturing

Serving businesses across Parc industriel de Granby (Granby industrial park, ~1,550 acres, 160+ companies), Rue Principale (historic downtown commercial street), Galeries de Granby (shopping mall, 85+ stores and restaurants), Les Halles de Granby (shopping centre at Principale/Leclerc/Moreau), Boulevard Leclerc commercial corridor.

Granby questions, answered

We start from the same data Granby Industriel publishes on the park — the roughly 1,550-acre footprint, the close to 9,000 direct jobs, the 2025 survey showing 719 planned hires against a tight labour market. That's our baseline context, but every build still starts with your specific production line, not a template.

It won't hire people for you. What it can do is exactly what Granby Industriel's own workforce report points to: automation and robotization that reduce how many hands a task needs, plus recruitment and onboarding software that gets the people you do hire — including internationally recruited staff — productive faster.

Yes. Precision suppliers like NSE Automatech operate under strict OEM quality-documentation standards to work with customers like Bombardier, GE and Bell Helicopter, and we build the traceability and inspection-record systems that make audits straightforward for shops in that same supply chain.

Yes. Granby's economy isn't only the industrial park — Rue Principale, Boulevard Leclerc, Les Halles de Granby and the Galeries de Granby are full of businesses that need practical software too, from booking and inventory tools to a proper website. We size the project to your business, not the other way around.

It depends on scope, but we design our process around teams that are already short-staffed — which describes most of the Parc industriel right now. We scope tightly, build in stages, and keep the time we need from your team to a minimum, so a live labour shortage doesn't turn into a stalled software project.

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