From the customer's order to a running machine, in one system.

Manufacturing, start to finish.

Products know what they're made of and which machines can make them. Add them to a project and the work orders, materials and machine schedule follow. Operators press Start and Done on a tablet, so you can see whether the machines really ran.

For cabinet and millwork shops, furniture makers, equipment builders and fabricators.

Book a 20-minute demo Follow one kitchen

Project Smith Kitchen, Orders and Production tab, with one order, four work orders with progress bars and a manufacturing cost of $826.87 — The project shows its order and how far along each work order is.

Any shop that makes what it sells. The Manufacturing pack sets the platform up for production in one click: work orders, machines, operators, machine uptime and downtime. Two add-ons tune it further: Cabinets & Millwork (sheet goods, CNC, delivery and install) and Equipment & Assembly (assemblies, screw-level costing, shipping by freight).

One Kitchen, From Order to Delivery

Each product knows what it's made of.

Follow a fictional cabinet shop with four CNC routers, an edgebander, a boring machine and two assembly benches, as it builds the Smith family's kitchen.

A materials list per product. “Base cabinet 24 in.” lists what one cabinet uses: 1.25 sheets of melamine, a quarter sheet of back panel, 22 ft of edgebanding, 2 hinges, 32 screws.
Every change gets a revision number, so editing the list never changes work that's already been released. A part with its own list can be a sub-assembly: tick “Use its parts” and work orders get its parts directly.

Catalog item Base cabinet 24 inch with its standard materials list, revision 5: melamine, plywood back, edgebanding, hinges and floor-stock screws — What one cabinet is made of, with a revision number.

…and which machines can make it. The tall pantry's panels are 84 inches long, so its CNC step needs the router with the 5×12 table. Machine rules are set per product, and the scheduler and every drag-and-drop enforce them.

Which machines can make it card for the tall pantry: the CNC cutting step needs a machine with a 5x12 table because panels are 84 inches long — The pantry's CNC step needs the 5×12 table.

Orders and Work Orders

Pick the products. The order and work orders follow.

Start from a project. The Smith Kitchen project gets an order for the cabinets. Click Add products, pick what's needed and how many, and you get one order plus one work order per product, each made for its order line and each with its materials already loaded.

A project template can do it for you: “Kitchen package — standard” orders 10 base, 8 wall, 2 pantry and 4 drawer-base cabinets the moment the project is created.

Add products to Smith Kitchen page with an order name, a due date and product and quantity rows — Pick the products; the order and work orders follow.

Project template with Products to Order: 10 base, 8 wall, 2 tall pantry and 4 drawer-base cabinets

A template that orders a standard kitchen

Create the project and the order and work orders are already there.

Order fulfillment table showing ordered, ready and delivered counts per cabinet type and the work order making each one

Ordered, ready, delivered

Per product: how many are ready, how many have gone out, and which work order is making them. The order runs Being made → Ready to ship → Delivered → Installed.

Or import the cut list. If each job is designed fresh, export the material list from your design software and import it onto the work order. The platform guesses the columns and matches materials by part number or name.

It remembers your matches and column choices, so the next file from the same program goes straight through.

It reads any CSV or Excel export, or rows you paste in.

Import a cut list page: column choices for material, description, quantity and units, and each material matched to a catalog item by SKU — Import the cut list from your design software. Matches are remembered.

Machines and Scheduling

Every step booked on a machine that can do it.

Schedule the machines. Auto-schedule books every step (CNC, edgebanding, boring, assembly) on the earliest free machine able to do it. Step times grow with quantity, long steps are split across shifts, and it warns you when the last step would finish after the due date. You see the plan first; nothing is booked until you confirm.

Auto-schedule proposal for the tall pantry: CNC cutting on CNC-4 with the 5x12 table, then edgebanding, boring and assembly, with a Book all 4 button — Auto-schedule books each step on a machine that can do it.

Weekly Shop Schedule with machines down the side, work orders per day and load bars, and unassigned work orders waiting — The week, machine by machine, with a load bar per day.

On the Shop Floor

Operators press Start and Done. You see whether the machines really ran.

Run them from the shop floor. Each machine has a station on a tablet or phone: what's running now, what's next today, and what's coming later. Operators press Start, Pause and Done, and can report the machine down. Finished cabinets are accepted at the last step, which posts production.

Operator station for CNC-1 running a work order for 48 minutes, with Pause and Done buttons and a Report CNC-1 down link — The machine's tablet: what's running now, with Pause and Done.

Phone screen of the operator station for CNC-1 with Pause and Done — Works on a phone too. It's a web page, nothing to install.

See whether the machines really ran. The capacity report shows booked against available hours, idle gaps worth filling, and hours actually run against hours booked.

Run time comes from operators pressing Start, Pause and Done. It isn't read from the machine's controller.

Machine Capacity Report with scheduled, available, utilization, idle, ran and ran-versus-booked hours, and idle gaps per machine — Utilization, idle gaps, and hours actually run.

Purchasing and Cost

Know what every order cost, down to the screw if you want it.

Smart Ordering: allocate from stock first, then an order recommendation for drawer slides with the supplier, lead time and an order-by date

9. Buy what's missing, on time.

Smart Ordering uses what's on the shelf first, compares suppliers and shows an order-by date: the date the work needs the part, minus the supplier's lead time. Anything past its date is flagged late.

Cost breakdown for a work order: counted materials part by part, standard charges, labor and a total of $826.87, with Download CSV

10. Know what each order cost.

Posting finished units uses the materials, adds labor at the department's standard rate, and puts the cabinets in stock reserved for the Smith order, so no other order can take them. The breakdown exports to CSV.

Three ways to cost a part

Tracked parts are counted out of stock per job
Floor stock (screws, glue) is charged at a standard cost without counting, and reconciled against what actually left the bins
Shop supplies are covered by a per-unit or percent-of-material charge
Posting is safe to retry: a double tap posts once
Optional stop when a tracked part is short, with a recorded reason to override

The cost breakdown tells you what an order cost. Invoicing stays a separate step you control.

Production run panel: run quantity 10, standard materials per unit and extended for the run, standard labor $67.50 per unit, and the post form — A work order's materials, scaled to the run.

Set Up for Your Shop

Switch on what your shop actually does.

Unit Features turns each capability on or off per department: delivering with your own trucks, site addresses, production runs, stopping a post when materials are short, splitting long jobs across shifts, and which people run which machines. A shop that ships by freight switches delivery off.

Unit Features settings for a cabinet shop with switches for delivering with your own trucks, production runs, stopping posts when materials are short, splitting long jobs and machine operators — Switch on what your shop does, department by department.

Production dashboard with pipeline counts, at-risk work orders, a needs-action list and this week's scheduled work

The production dashboard

The pipeline, what's at risk, and what needs action today.

Stock list with melamine, edgebanding, hinges, screws and finished wall cabinets, with on-hand, available and allocated quantities

Sheet goods, hardware and finished cabinets

All in stock, all tracked, finished units reserved to the order they were made for.

Machines and scheduling

Machines with capabilities (CNC cutting, 5×12 table, edgebanding…), uptime hours, maintenance downtime and an “unattended” setting
Machine rules per product, enforced on every booking
Week board with per-machine load bars; due date and priority rank the waiting list
Delivery, truck loading and routes from field operations for shops that deliver their own goods

Orders and work orders

Standard materials lists with revision tracking; work orders keep the revision they loaded
Sub-assemblies whose parts load straight onto the work order, multiplied through
Finished units reserved to their order line the moment they're posted
An order with units still to make can't close itself

See it with your own products.

We'll take one order from the project to a running machine and a cost breakdown, then show you the rest of the platform it's built into.

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