Shop-floor production boards, BOMs and order intake next to your ERP
Outgrown Google Sheets, but don't want the enterprise cost and rigidity of SAP or Microsoft Dynamics? We build a focused, lightweight operational portal tailored to your shop floor — with clean CSV/API handoffs to your accounting system.
*Paid audit from $1,000 · 5–7 working days · you keep the prototype and written build specification.
Where custom fabrication margin leaks between sales and the shop floor
Complex bills of materials get re-keyed, whiteboards hide bottlenecks, and untracked scrap drives material budgets off course.
BOM & Order Retyping
Customer orders must be hand-transcribed into bills of materials, cutting tickets, and paper traveler sheets, introducing costly dimensional transcription errors.
Untracked Production Stages
Job status lives on whiteboards and paper routing sheets. Project managers spend 5+ hours every week walking the factory floor to answer 'where is this order?'.
Untraceable Scrap & Offcut Waste
Raw materials are consumed without linking scrap rates or offcut re-use back to specific jobs, machines, or operator shifts, eroding product margins.
Designed for machine operators and finance visibility
Distraction-free tablet screens on the shop floor paired with relational data models that connect cleanly with your accounting software.
Order Intake & BOM Generator
Convert accepted client quotes or customer POs into structured bills of materials and clear shop-floor job travelers.
Shop-Floor Production Stage Board
Digital Kanban view for cutting, CNC, welding, assembly, finishing, and QA inspection. Simple tablet interface for machine operators to advance jobs with one tap.
Material Ledger & Scrap Tracking
Track raw material inventory depletion, offcut sheet re-stocking, and production scrap in an append-only PostgreSQL database ledger — changes are logged, never overwritten.
Accounting & ERP Handoffs
Clean automated CSV/API handoffs to QuickBooks Online, Xero, or your central accounting ledger — eliminating double data entry between shop floor and finance.
Material Movement Ledger & Offcut Tracking
Inspect our reference blueprint featuring append-only ledger entries, double-entry inventory validation, and usable remnant offcut re-classification.
Custom software isn't always the right choice
Compare heavyweight enterprise ERPs with a focused, shop-floor operational portal.
Build custom if…
- You make custom fabricated or configured physical products where bills of materials vary with every project.
- You have outgrown spreadsheets, but full ERP rollouts (such as SAP, NetSuite, or Microsoft Dynamics) bring heavy licensing costs and months of disruptive implementation.
- Your shop-floor operators need fast, distraction-free tablet screens rather than complex ERP menus with hundreds of unused fields.
Buy off-the-shelf if…
- You run continuous high-volume mass production of identical consumer goods that requires a full factory-wide enterprise MES.
- A simple off-the-shelf MRP like Katana or MRPEasy already fits your exact formula and shop layout out of the box.
- Your company has not yet established a repeatable manufacturing workflow or standard bill of materials logic.
How it works: from audit to a working system
A low-risk structured progression where you see and verify interactive screens before code development begins.
Operations Audit
Workflow bottleneck mapping (5–7 working days). You get a clickable core-flow prototype (5–6 screens) and a written fixed-price build specification. 100% credited toward a Custom CRM build if started within 60 days.
Interactive Prototype Review
Check the workflow and sample calculations in a clickable prototype before you commit to the build.
Fixed-Scope Build
A focused micro-system (like the Roofing Takeoff Engine) takes 2–4 weeks ($5k–$8k). A core operational CRM (Phase 1 Release) takes 6–12 weeks ($15k–$35k). Live working demos every 1–2 weeks with fast async feedback loops to keep your launch date on track.
Release & Code Handover
Production deployment, team onboarding, and complete Git repository handover. Optional month-to-month care from $500/mo.
Frequently asked questions
Straightforward answers about shop-floor tablets, ERP integration, and production deployment.
Ready to modernize your shop floor?
Start with a 5–7 working day audit of how orders and materials move through your plant today, or talk directly to Anton Horbenko, Co-founder & Principal Architect.