Best Manufacturing Software for Startups - Page 36
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KIMCO
KIMCO
KIMCO is a comprehensive manufacturing management and ERP platform designed to help manufacturers take control of their plant operations from quoting through production and shipping by unifying key workflows into one system; it offers modules for ERP planning and scheduling, accounting, MRP (material requirements planning), MES (manufacturing execution systems), inventory control, machine shop management, and fabrication or sign shop workflows so teams can automate routine tasks, improve estimating accuracy, and generate real-time insights across the business. It gives manufacturers a 360° view of operations with real-time dashboards that track labor costs, machine utilization, inventory levels, and order progress so you can optimize resource use, minimize waste, and make data-driven decisions to improve cash flow and delivery performance. -
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Cut+Dry
Cut+Dry
Cut+Dry is an all-in-one ecommerce and sales enablement platform built specifically for the foodservice industry that connects distributors, operators, and manufacturers with cloud-based order management, digital catalog, CRM, accounts receivable, and sales dashboards in a single system. It lets distributors centralize online ordering with rich product catalogs, customer-specific pricing, multiple order guides, rapid search and discovery, product recommendations, and AI-powered sales tools, while also enabling real-time invoicing, digital payments with customizable credit terms, autopay options, and delivery tracking to reduce manual work and accelerate cash flow. Cut+Dry integrates with more than 50 ERP systems to keep live data flowing and gives users tools for in-app, email, and SMS marketing and promotions to drive demand, plus branded mobile, tablet, and desktop experiences for customers. -
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FoodOps
FoodOps
FoodOps is a cloud-based food manufacturing traceability and operations platform that replaces paper-based systems with a fully digital factory backbone, enabling real-time tracking of ingredients, batches, and production processes with forward and backward traceability using digital tags that link procedures directly to inventory, helping teams respond to recalls in minutes rather than hours. It integrates quality, stock, production, documents, and compliance into one connected environment, giving manufacturers real-time visibility into operations and empowering teams to make faster, data-driven decisions while maintaining audit readiness with custom reports and dashboards. Built with an intuitive, no-code app studio, FoodOps lets users replicate and build their exact workflows and standard operating procedures, centralize documentation, automate schedules and action management, and streamline non-conformance handling. -
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Pulsar
Pulsar
Pulsar is a cloud-connected real-time machine monitoring and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) platform designed to give manufacturers full visibility into shop-floor operations, production performance, and machine health so they can detect issues, eliminate downtime, and improve productivity without relying on manual logs or spreadsheets. It uses industrial IoT sensors and hardware that connect to machines of any type, age, or model without altering PLCs and stream availability, performance, speed, cycle counts, downtime causes, and production output data to intuitive dashboards accessible from any device. Pulsar automatically tracks key manufacturing KPIs, like OEE, utilization, throughput, and quality, provides advanced real-time analytics, historical reporting, and custom configurable alerts via SMS, email, or TV dashboards, and includes a digital Andon system so teams can spot and respond to production issues instantly. -
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ProChangeover
ProChangeover
ProChangeover is a B2B industrial SaaS platform that helps manufacturers reduce changeover downtime using SMED workflows. Teams can self-onboard quickly (about 10 minutes), define standardized tasks, execute with guided instructions, and analyze outcomes to continuously improve performance across lines and facilities.Starting Price: $49/month/department -
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PlantOS
Infinite Uptime
PlantOS Prescriptive AI is an industrial intelligence platform developed by Infinite Uptime that helps manufacturing plants improve equipment reliability, operational efficiency, and energy performance through AI-driven maintenance and optimization insights. It combines advanced sensing technology, industry-specific artificial intelligence models, and human expertise to continuously monitor industrial machinery and production processes in real time. Specialized MEMS and piezoelectric sensors collect detailed operational data from critical equipment such as motors, mills, compressors, and other rotating machinery, even in harsh industrial environments with high temperatures or extremely slow rotations. This data is analyzed by prescriptive AI models trained on industry-specific failure patterns, enabling the platform to detect subtle performance signatures that precede mechanical faults or inefficiencies. -
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DataQI
DataQI
DataQI is an AI-powered platform designed to help manufacturing organizations transform operational data into actionable insights. The system uses technologies such as computer vision and intelligent data analysis to monitor factory environments and detect issues that may not be visible to the human eye. By converting raw video and sensor data into structured information, DataQI enables automated quality control, improved assembly processes, and reduced operational risk. The platform integrates with existing enterprise systems and industrial infrastructure without requiring major changes. It provides real-time and historical visibility into production lines, equipment performance, and operational metrics. AI-powered tools allow teams to search, analyze, and generate insights from their private company data. Through automation and advanced analytics, DataQI helps manufacturers improve efficiency, reduce waste, and make smarter operational decisions. -
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Tracktile
Tracktile
Tracktile is a manufacturing software solution for food and beverage production that streamlines operations with industry-specific features. It provides real-time inventory tracking that monitors stock levels and movements across production sites. The system includes AI-powered forecasting tools that create schedules based on sales history and trends, helping to reduce waste and prevent production rushes. Tracktile offers traceability features that track ingredients and products from source to shipment, making audits and potential recalls more manageable. The software aids regulatory compliance by maintaining accurate records and transforming operational data into insights on yield and performance. Tracktile integrates with hardware such as barcode scanners and RFID readers to enable real-time updates and eliminate redundant data entry, creating a more efficient manufacturing process.Starting Price: $4,000/year -
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BOMS
HD Advanced Technologies Inc.
BOMS is a cloud-based operations management platform for industrial and manufacturing companies. It connects safety, maintenance, training, compliance, inspections, procurement, work permits, time off, downtime tracking, and operational reporting in one integrated system. Teams can report incidents, create work requests and maintenance work orders, track employee training and competency, manage compliance deadlines, build digital inspection forms, control purchase requisitions, and monitor performance through dashboards and reports. BOMS also offers IoT sensors to track assets’ availability, uptime, downtime, and OEE, helping teams identify production losses, respond faster to issues, and improve maintenance planning. BOMS helps companies reduce administrative work and maintain compliance by replacing spreadsheets, paper forms, and disconnected tools with an easy to use system that provides real-time visibility across departments. It supports mobile, tablet and desktop access. -
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Canals
Canals
Canals is an AI-powered operating platform built specifically for wholesale distributors, designed to automate the most time-consuming workflows across sales, customer service, accounting, and purchasing. It transforms unstructured customer requests, such as emails, PDFs, spreadsheets, handwritten notes, or even voicemails, into structured quotes or sales orders that are ready for review and instant submission into ERP systems. It uses advanced AI to understand customer intent, match requested items to product catalogs, and automatically generate complete, accurate orders, eliminating the need for manual data entry and product lookup. Canals operates across the entire revenue and operations cycle, enabling teams to respond faster to customer inquiries, improve quote turnaround times, and increase win rates while reducing errors and returns. It continuously learns from user behavior, customer preferences, and historical data. -
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MacroFusion
Macromill CNC Solutions
MacroFusion™ is an advanced CNC macro automation platform that converts repetitive CAM-generated G-code into intelligent reusable CNC macro programs. The software analyzes repetitive machining motion and transforms long NC programs into compact macro logic using variables, loops, conditions, and automation workflows. Features include: • CAM-to-macro conversion • Intelligent pattern recognition • WHILE loop automation • Variable-driven machining • Custom canned cycle builder • Toolpath preview and macro visualization • Macro workbench and live simulation • G-code compression and optimization • Reusable machining logic Supports advanced workflows including: • Helical interpolation • Trochoidal slot milling • Spiral pocket milling • Bolt-circle automation • Figure-8 oil groove machining • Face sweeping • Wave surfacing Compatible with Fanuc, Haas, Siemens, Okuma, and other macro-capable CNC controls.Starting Price: $149 -
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Synchronous ERP
Synchronous ERP
Synchronous ERP, a cloud-based enterprise resource planning platform, enables users to identify and track important components throughout the entire supply chain and manufacturing process. Synchronous ERP is the solution for distribution and manufacturing businesses. Synchronous ERP has key features that include inventory management, product tracing, Heuristic EDI, customer relationship management, financial accounting, warehouse management, and product tracing. -
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Protected Flow Manufacturing
LillyWorks
Simplify floor scheduling and support better resource planning with Protected Flow Manufacturing by LillyWorks, a SaaS-based manufacturing execution and planning platform. Protected Flow Manufacturing can easily integrate alongside any existing ERP. With an intuitive system, Protected Flow Manufacturing enables users to achieve maximum ROI by reducing the time their jobs spend waiting. Protected Flow Manufacturing is suitable for small and mid-sized manufacturers or job shops that pursue growth and attract new business. -
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DELMIAworks
Dassault Systemes
Combine manufacturing, MES, supply chain, and ERP software to optimize your shop floor. Learn how DELMIAworks (formerly IQMS) can help increase visibility into every aspect of your manufacturing operation and solve your most trying production challenges. Prevent unnecessary downtime, while increasing manufacturing efficiency, quality, and profit margins. Improve decision making with real-time access to data across the entire supply chain. A single system for all ERP, manufacturing, MES, and supply chain requirements. Lower your overall cost of investment and maintenance by automating your business. Our easy-to-use solution can help you double plant output, eliminate human errors, and increase the efficiency of your production planning process. Manage, track and monitor the complete production process to eliminate unplanned downtime and increase throughput. OEE charts and graphs are dynamically updated with performance and quality data in real-time. -
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Schedlyzer
Optisol
Schedlyzer from Optisol, LLC is a software solution for scheduling order-driven, high-mix, low- volume production. Scientific production scheduling software helps with efficient planning, control and management of complex production. Optisol offers job shops the most versatile, powerful and flexible software tool, Schedlyzer for production scheduling in high-mix, low-volume environment. Its major strengths include intelligent decision support for managers. It is affordable to most job shops. This is a right place if you are searching for proven solutions to optimally schedule, control and manage complex, high-mix, low-volume production in your job shop. You might find our scientific software, Schedlyzer most suitable for your needs in many respects. Control and management of order-driven, high-mix, low-volume (HMLV) production is quite challenging in many job shops. It is also true for make-to-order production and custom manufacturing. -
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Aptean is one of the world’s leading providers of purpose-built, industry-specific software that helps manufacturers and distributors effectively run and grow their businesses. With both cloud and on-premise deployment options, Aptean’s products, services and unmatched expertise help businesses of all sizes to be Ready for What’s Next, Now®. Aptean is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia and has offices in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Our Aptean Food & Beverage ERP is an end-to-end food and beverage ERP solution which is designed to meet the challenges and issues that are specific to food and beverage processors, manufacturers, and distributors.
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XMPro
XMPro
Improve operational excellence, reduce risk and increase asset utilization with XMPro's IoT Application Suite. XMPro integrates IoT solutions into existing business workflows to enable smarter business decision-making. The platform comes with integration capabilities to connect disparate systems securely, event stream processing for processing large volumes of data from various data sources in real-time, analytics, IoT device management, and more. -
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SAP Business One
SAP
SAP Business One is a powerful ERP solution available on-premise, in the cloud, or powered by SAP HANA, SAP's in-memory computing database. SAP Business One covers all core business functions in one platform, giving managers access to critical data and allowing for quicker, better business decisions. Some of the functionalities available in SAP Business One are CRM, stock control, sales management, financials, purchasing, reporting, and more. A single, affordable solution to manage your entire small business – from accounting and financials, purchasing, inventory, sales and customer relationships to reporting and analytics. Gain greater control over your business or subsidiary with SAP Business One. Streamline key processes, gain greater insight into your business, and make decisions based on real-time information – so you can drive profitable growth. -
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STYLEman
Option Systems
STYLEman is a management software made for the specific needs of apparel and footwear businesses. STYLEman's full suite includes Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), mobile service for salesmen and customers, Warehouse Management Software (WMS), and Business Intelligence (SI) modules. The software also allows businesses to sort and manage Bills of Materials, Bills of Labor, purchase and selling prices, marketing information, among many others. -
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Manufacturing Workbench
ORSOFT
ORSOFT Manufacturing Workbench is an advanced planning and scheduling (APS) software which can be used as an add-on to SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA. SAP ERP / SAP S/4HANA is enhanced by ORSOFT Manufacturing Workbench with components such as an interactive planning board, planning functions and functions for SCM business processes. This comes without needing to introduce complex additional IT infrastructure or a separate parallel SCM system. Production planning and production logistics / logistics planning in ERP systems, such as SAP ERP PP, uses the MRP-II method and requires a separation of material requirements planning and capacity planning. ERP systems work in a transaction-oriented way. ORSOFT Manufacturing Workbench follows the principles of Advanced Planning and Scheduling and offers interactive multi-resource simultaneous planning with the possibility to simulate and optimize planning scenarios. -
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Tervene
Tervene
Tervene supports organizations' daily operations control. Our connected worker platform empowers frontline teams and top management to reach operational excellence with stronger daily management, collaboration and problem-solving processes. Manufacturing and operation leaders such as Safran, Mars Wrigley, Lactalis, Siemens, Cascades and many SMBs digitized their management practices with our help: Gemba walks, daily checks, audits, inspections, operational meetings, digital procedures. Tools: - Knowledge Center (retain & share knowledge) ; - System Audit (conduct inspections) ; - Floor Toor/Gemba Walks (control operations) ; - Task Manager (get tasks done) ; - Meeting (run better meetings) ; - Improvement (manage improvement); - Dashboard (monitor management performance). -
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Herbst Enterprise
Herbst Software
Herbst Enterprise is our premier and most comprehensive ERP/Business Management Software solution that provides medium-large sized businesses with the functionality to satisfy their requirements. This solution is an all-encompassing package that is interwoven with stock, dispatch, sales, procurement and all of the various interrelated business processes that dynamic organisations need to manage on a daily basis. The key advantage being the capability to delegate with control. Herbst Enterprise is our most customisable product offering, allowing for our complete set of modules with no restrictions. This is the most complete business management solution you will find on the market today. Herbst Software’s leading business management solution is designed for the growth SME sector and can be tailored to suit your specific business processes. Nominal, creditors and debtors ledgers, pricing management, order management, and finance management. -
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JUST MES
PA-Group
UP Solutions has a long experience, both nationally and internationally, in the development of IT solutions designed specifically to accelerate the business and improve the company's production system in all its phases. A complete range of SW solutions and services to support you in the migration of your company to the industry 4.0. Thanks to our long experience in the IT field and to the constant presence and management of projects at national and international level, we are now able to offer increasingly high-performance solutions to improve production efficiency. Born with a significant focus on Textile, over the years we have grown and transferred the experience gained to other industrial sectors, thus extending the potential of our suite of products and services dedicated to businesses. -
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FactoryMaster MRP
Access Group
Plan and forecast around constraints by extracting important data from your shop floor, to ensure you keep delivering for your customers. Orchestrate production planning and scheduling module helps you and your business increase yield, even with fluctuating resources. Now more than ever, it is essential that manufacturers deliver on production plans, and Orchestrate is designed to make sure you are utilising every machine, employee and resource to its full capacity. FactoryMaster MRP module automates some high volume but essential tasks, from ordering materials to delivering on Works Orders, to cut out admin that is costing manufacturers valuable time. Our modules are designed to be flexible and adapt to change, so your business can get ahead, scale up your operations - no matter what the future brings. FactoryMaster MRP functionality draws key information from other areas of your system to make suggestions about purchase and works orders that need to be placed. -
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Seradex ERP
Seradex
Our ERP for manufacturers allows you to optimize your production performance, eliminate mistakes, and more. OrderStream’s ERP for manufacturing was built for one purpose- to help manufacturers. Whether you’re a cabinet making company, a small tool and die shop, a printing house, or any other business that’s growing, we have a solution for you. Our ERP system will allow you to reduce mistakes, create more accurate quotes, reduce inventory shortages, and streamline your workflows, all in one platform. When you get approached with a job request from a customer, you can see what inventory you have to fulfill the order. Next, you can turn an order into a quote with one click and send it directly to your shop floor. Then on the shop floor, your team can fulfill the order and get it shipped out on time and without issues. Our ERP for manufacturing reflects the best practices for individual industries. Plus, our system integrates directly with industry-standard software. -
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Roadmap ERP
Roadmap IT Solutions
Get business updates at anytime from anywhere on any platform in any device. Gain/provide instant access to product details & simplify error-free gate entry. Make right decisions via apt real-time data projections to all levels of control. Be updated with the efficiency quotients of the functional aspects of your trade. Hassle-free, error-free, real-time data updates of employees, by employees. Enjoy remote access to business and be empowered to issue Mobile Approvals. Keeps you at the vantage point of gaining the overall view of cash flow so that you always have a clear picture of your periodical expenses. Acquire accurate and real-time view of your financial statements anywhere anytime and keep your financial structure in order. Procure a comprehensive account of your actual financial scenario as opposed to the objective set by your budget. Handle multiple currencies with the ease of automated financial / customs exchange rates. -
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Matics
Matics
Realize your operational potential. Collect, analyze and collaborate in real time to gain production efficiency. Matics is the new way to manage your production floor. Get smart alerts on critical issues in real time wherever you are. Stay on top of your production KPIs across all machines & sites. Communicate call-to-actions, prioritize and empower your team. Get breakdown notifications to effectively manage next steps. Easily access multi-parameter data for faster problem diagnosis. Leverage digital documentation and preserve knowledge for all. Digitally track the progress of your targets and KPIs in real time. Enter stop reasons & rejects instantly to avoid data inaccuracies. Collaborate effortlessly with other teams for greater productivity. -
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iRely i21
iRely
iRely i21 is a commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) software that helps businesses handle processes related to logistics, procurement, finance, claims processing, and more on a centralized platform. It enables staff members to automatically receive risk notifications, view market exposure reports, track risk positions, generate margin analysis, and conduct stress testing. iRely i21 allows team members to reserve inventory based on customer sample approvals and buying decisions and monitor contractual parameters based prices. It lets employees set up custom time periods to analyze realized and unrealized profitability and avoid month-end profitability inaccuracies. With the real-time accounting tool, users can generate invoices based on multiple parameters, such as delivery, contracts, and fixation. It also lets supervisors generate documents and automatically update parcel status with shipping instructions, release orders, shipping advice, and more. -
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yieldWerx
yieldWerx
yieldWerx is a software company that provides yield management software to help companies optimize their manufacturing processes and increase their profitability. Yield management involves the process of maximizing revenue by controlling the price and availability of a product or service. yieldWerx's software uses real-time data analysis to provide companies with insights into their manufacturing processes and helps them make informed decisions to improve their yield and reduce costs. yieldWerx enterprise provides yield management solution software for semiconductor manufacturers. Their yield analysis software captures data from various formats, including STDF, ATDF, CSV, and other proprietary formats, providing semiconductor manufacturers with end-to-end yield management solutions. -
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LeanERA Manufacturing
Profit Solutions International
LeanEra is a feature-rich suite of applications for product engineering, construction, formula design, and quality management. This module offers a significant benefit for custom manufacturers. It is fully integrated with the Order Entry and Work Order systems. The Work Order system is fully integrated with MRP and the Shop Floor Control system to provide real-time information on your jobs. Similar to the Customer Master, the Supplier Master combines a complete Contact Manager with essential financial, shipping, and summary data to support your purchasing functions. In today’s increasingly digital, gig-economy, making your product available online is practically a necessity. Having access to real-time information, on the road is the dream! With LeanEra Mobile CRM, it is possible now. You can access your accounts and other key information from your mobile devices.
