Equipment Manufacturing: Project-Based Production (ETO / Custom)
One design per order, designing while producing. BOM, kit readiness, engineering changes and project costing are the management backbone of equipment manufacturing.
Frequent Custom BOMs and Engineering Changes
Every order changes the design and materials. BOM versions get mixed up and procurement and production work from outdated versions.
✓ BOM and Engineering Change Management
Versioned bills of materials with change review and impact visibility.
Poor Kit Readiness Stalls Assembly
Shortages surface only before final assembly; procurement, subcontracting and in-house progress are out of sync, and delivery slips again and again.
✓ Kit Readiness and Shortage Analysis
Shortage analysis by project, process and date, with early warnings.
Project Progress Tracked by Meetings and Excel
Design, procurement, machining and assembly each manage their own silo. Project managers piece progress together in weekly meetings and discover risks too late.
✓ Project Progress Dashboard
Plans, actuals, bottlenecks and delay reasons on one screen.
Project Costs Are Unclear
Material, labor, overhead and subcontracting costs are incompletely collected. Quotes rely on experience and profitability is only known after the project ends.
✓ Project Cost Accounting
Material, labor, overhead and subcontracting collected by project, with real-time margin visibility.
Uncontrollable Subcontracting and Procurement Lead Times
Many subcontractors and frequent process back-and-forth. Return dates and quality depend on phone calls, and accountability is hard to establish when problems arise.
✓ SCM Subcontracting Collaboration
Subcontract orders, return inspection, lead times and performance managed online.
After-Sales Spare Parts and Warranty Traceability
After equipment delivery, installation lists, spare-part batches and warranty records are scattered, slowing after-sales response.
✓ WMS Spare Parts and Warranty Records
Traceable installation lists, spare-part batches and warranty records.
Machining: Process-Based Production
High-mix, low-volume production with frequent process handoffs. Reporting, equipment, piece-rate wages and unit cost are the management backbone of a machining shop.
Paper Route Cards Leave Process Status Unclear
Which process a part is at, whose hands it is in, and how long it will take all depend on route cards and asking around — delivery promises lack confidence.
✓ Scan-to-Report Process Reporting
Scan-based handoffs, real-time progress and work-in-process visibility.
Opaque Equipment Utilization and OEE
Downtime, changeovers and waiting for materials go unmeasured. Capacity bottlenecks are guessed and equipment ROI cannot be explained.
✓ MES Equipment Management
Utilization, OEE, downtime reasons and maintenance records online.
Piece-Rate and Hourly Wage Disputes
Many process rates and handwritten reporting force statisticians to reconcile for two or three days at month-end, and workers still dispute the numbers.
✓ Baogongbao Piece-Rate Costing
Process rates configured once; wages calculated on report and exported in one click.
Uncontrolled Tooling, Fixtures and Maintenance
Tool withdrawals are unrecorded, fixtures go missing and equipment runs while faulty — hidden costs pile up.
✓ WMS Tooling and Fixture Management
Withdrawals, returns, tool life and maintenance plans are traceable.
Subcontracting Quality and Lead Time
Heat treatment, surface treatment, wire cutting and other outsourced steps are numerous, with unpredictable return quality and timing.
✓ Subcontract Process Collaboration
Subcontract dispatch, return inspection, lead times and defect records online.
Experience-Based Quoting and Inaccurate Unit Costs
Actual consumption of material, labor hours, tooling and subcontracting is unclear. Quotes that are too high lose orders; too low lose money.
✓ Process Cost Accounting
Actual costs collected by work order and process, giving quotes a solid basis.
Product Portfolio
One product portfolio, combined differently for the priorities of equipment manufacturing and machining.
Shopfloor Reporter
Scan-to-report, piece-rate and hourly tracking, and team output — deployed quickly on machining and assembly floors.
MES Manufacturing Execution
Scheduling, process routing, kit readiness, equipment OEE and quality management.
SCM Supply Chain Collaboration
Procurement, suppliers, subcontract processes and lead times, with early shortage warnings.
WMS Warehouse Management
Raw materials, tooling and fixtures, spare parts and finished goods with bin locations and scan-based inbound/outbound.
Production Cost Accounting
Material, labor and overhead collected by project or work order and process, with real-time project and order margins.
AI Intelligence
Ask about progress, shortages, equipment and cost anomalies in natural language — answers in seconds.
How We Deliver
Configured from industry templates
Configured with process, material and quality templates for equipment manufacturing or machining — no building from scratch.
Phased Rollout
Start with reporting and work-in-process visibility, then add planning, warehousing and costing to reduce go-live risk.
Integrate with Existing Systems
API integration with ERP, PLM, CNC equipment and IoT data.
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