Production software for manufacturers who've outgrown the spreadsheet
Simple, bespoke MRP systems for small extruders, fabricators and light engineering firms. Orders, materials, recipes, tooling and stock, set up around the way your shop already works.
- 1Material: recipe R-17 with 20% regrind
- 2Die D-042: 38 runs since its last polish
- 3Job 1042: 1,200 m, due Friday
Sound familiar?
The big-name systems are priced and built for large plants. Mannin Systems is for everyone else.
- The production plan lives on a whiteboard, or in one person's head.
- There's a spreadsheet only one person understands, and everyone is wary of touching it.
- Nobody is quite sure how much material, or regrind, is really in stock.
- Tooling history is whatever someone remembers about the last run.
- Off-the-shelf software was built for someone else's factory, and it shows.
What your system can cover
Each system is built for one business, so it covers what you need and leaves out what you don't. Typical areas include:
Orders and scheduling
Customer orders turned into jobs, with a clear view of what's running, what's next and what's late.
Materials and recipes
Blends, masterbatch and regrind ratios for each product, with material usage worked out per job.
Tooling
Dies, moulds and fixtures: where they are, what they've run and when they're due for maintenance.
Stock
Raw material, work in progress and finished goods, updated as work is booked rather than at month end.
Traceability
Which batch of material went into which job, for when a customer comes back with a question.
Reporting
Output, scrap and downtime in plain figures you can act on.
Built by someone from the shop floor
I know what a changeover costs, why regrind ratios matter, and how much of a factory runs on knowledge that was never written down.
My background is in extrusion manufacturing, process improvement and development, not software sales. That means less time explaining your business to me, and a system that uses your names for your products and processes.
How it works
No big-bang switchover. You keep working the way you do now until the new system has proved itself.
Talk it through
A call or a visit to see how you work now: orders, materials, the spreadsheets and the whiteboard.
Start with one process
We pick the area causing the most trouble and build that first, around your products and your terms.
Run it side by side
The new system runs alongside your spreadsheets until you trust the numbers.
Switch over
Then you move across, with support on hand and room to add more areas when you're ready.
What it costs
Straightforward pricing, agreed in writing before any work starts.
Design and set-up
A fixed price for building your system, based on what we agree it needs to cover.
Hosting and support
Secure hosting, backups and support, so the system keeps running without you having to think about it.
Tell me what you're running on now
A few lines about what you make and how you plan production today is plenty to start with. I'll reply personally.
chris@manninsystems.co.uk