Production management

Orders on paper slips, the plan in the manager's head. Time for a system that runs your production.

We build simple production management software for companies that do not need a corporate MES. Orders, planning, reporting and work time tracking - built precisely for your shop floor.

How to tell it is time

Paper slips and Excel work while orders are few

These are the signals we hear most often from owners of manufacturing companies that have outgrown their tools.

Production without a system
  • The production plan lives mostly in the shift manager's head
  • Sales promises the customer a deadline without knowing what is already in the queue
  • You calculate the margin on an order after the fact - if at all
  • The production report is built once a month, by hand, in Excel
  • Work time written on paper slips - payroll takes days
Production with a custom system
  • The production plan lives in the system - office and shop floor see the same thing at the same moment
  • Sales sees capacity and quotes a realistic deadline while still with the customer
  • Each order collects material costs and labor hours - you know the margin right away
  • Production reports generate themselves, in real time
  • Work time recorded by scan or panel - payroll in minutes
System scope

What custom production management software can do

We match the scope to your processes - you pay for what you actually use.

Production orders

From customer order to shop floor: statuses, priorities, deadlines, change history.

Production planning

Order queue per machine and shift, capacity utilization, replan with a single move.

Production reporting

Plan execution, shift performance, defects, order costs - in real time, not once a month.

Work time tracking

Workers clock operations by scan or on a panel at the workstation. No more paper slips and rewriting.

Materials and consumption

Material usage per order, recipes and consumption standards, stock for upcoming orders.

Barcodes on the shop floor

Order and batch labels, operations reported by scan - the data enters itself.

Alerts and deadlines

The system watches at-risk deadlines, material shortages and downtime - before they become a problem.

ERP and warehouse integration

Subiekt, Comarch Optima, enova365, warehouse systems - orders and documents flow on their own.

How we deploy

From analysis to a working system

Transparent rules, clear contracts, payment after work acceptance. No surprises.

01

Production analysis

We visit your shop floor or connect remotely. We follow an order from purchase to dispatch and write down how your production really works.

From 30 min to a few days
02

Documentation and quote

We describe the features, screens and integrations. You receive a document and a concrete quote - before any build decision is made.

5-50 pages of documentation
03

Build in stages

First the core: orders, plan and reporting. Then work time tracking, barcodes and integrations. You review and test each stage on real orders.

First stage in 4-8 weeks
04

Deployment and growth

We train the office and the shop floor, go live and stay on for support. The system grows together with your production.

Payment after acceptance
What it costs

How much production management software costs

Real price ranges from our projects. No per-user subscription - the system is yours.

Production core

€4,025-7,000 net

Production orders, a simple plan, statuses, users and basic reports.

Production with measurement

€8,050-14,000 net

The core plus work time tracking, material consumption, barcodes and ERP integration.

System for the whole company

from €16,100 net

Planning per machine and shift, batch traceability, warehouse, data exchange with sales.

Every project starts with documentation and an exact quote - you know what you are paying for before work begins.

Integrations

We connect the system to what you already use

We do not replace tools that work - we connect the system to what you already have.

Subiekt GT / nexo Comarch Optima enova365 BaseLinker WooCommerce / PrestaShop Barcode scanners Label printers Shop floor touch panels Email and SMS (notifications) Excel (import/export) Custom API
From our practice

Systems for manufacturing are our daily work

For an artisan bakery we built BakePilot - a system that manages orders, plans production and keeps track of raw materials. We put the same craftsmanship into every production management system.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

MES (Manufacturing Execution System) is the production control software known from large factories - with deployment prices running into hundreds of thousands. A manufacturing company with revenue around €3M usually needs 20% of those features: orders, a plan, reporting and work time tracking. That is exactly what a simple custom system delivers - without the corporate MES price tag.

The core - orders, plan and reports - is €4,025-7,000 net. The version with work time tracking, material consumption and ERP integration fits within €8,050-14,000. You get an exact quote before work starts, based on documentation - not along the way.

The first working stage usually takes 4-8 weeks from documentation sign-off. A full deployment with work time tracking and integrations takes 2-4 months. We work in stages, so you run your first orders in the system long before the project ends.

Off-the-shelf programs assume a typical process - and almost every production has its exceptions: unusual units, make-to-order work, changeovers, subcontractors. We build a custom system around your process, so the system adapts to the shop floor, not the shop floor to the system.

Yes, because we design the shop floor screen separately: large buttons, code scanning instead of typing, one action per screen. The worker clocks the start and end of an operation - the system calculates the rest. Panel training usually takes about fifteen minutes.

Yes, ERP integrations are standard in our projects: customer orders flow into production automatically, and documents and stock levels flow back to the ERP. Accounting and sales keep working in their software, the shop floor in its own - the data stays consistent.

Count what "gut-feel" production costs you

Book a free consultation. We will walk through your production process and tell you honestly whether a custom system makes sense for you - and if so, how much it will cost.

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