Built for capital goods and machinery manufacturers.
From CNC job shops and machine tool builders to pump, compressor, and heavy equipment makers — FactorialOS handles long lead times, engineered-to-order builds, and the deep traceability your machines need decades after they ship.
Where industrial machinery shop floors really struggle
Long lead times, configurable products, expensive machines, and deep vendor networks. Generic ERPs treat your floor like a black box — but a missed step costs you weeks, not minutes.
Lead times measured in weeks
A single machine can take 8 to 20 weeks to build. Lose visibility for a few days and the whole project slips — and you find out from the customer.
Engineered-to-order complexity
Every machine is a little different. Customer-specific BOMs, configurable options, last-minute design changes. The drawings on the floor have to match what was actually approved.
Vendors and job-work everywhere
Castings from one place, machining from another, plating outside, painting at a third vendor. Half your throughput sits at someone else’s premises — with no live status.
Expensive idle machines
A 5-axis CNC, a VMC, a special-purpose grinder — standing idle for setup, tool change, or material wait burns serious money. Most shops only see it at month-end.
Spares & field service trace-back
A customer calls about a 7-year-old machine. Which casting batch? Which assembly drawing revision? Which operator? Without a system, you’re digging through paper — or guessing.
Every job feels like a one-off
High-mix, low-volume reality: dozens of part numbers, frequent changeovers, custom tooling. Quoting accurately and planning capacity is mostly experience — and often wrong.
How FactorialOS handles it
Project-level visibility for long-lead builds, real-time floor control for daily execution, and machine-serial genealogy that pays off years after dispatch.
Project-level visibility for every build
See exactly where each machine is — raw material, machining, sub-assembly, paint, final test — with predicted dispatch dates that update as work progresses, not as Excel gets refreshed.
Configurable BOMs and ETO routings
Customer-specific options, configurable variants, ECNs mid-build — FactorialOS handles the “every machine is a little different” reality without making operators guess what to do.
Vendor and job-work coordination
Track parts that leave for casting, machining, plating, or painting outside — with quantity, dispatch date, expected return, and live status. No more month-end reconciliations.
Setups, tool life, and downtime — tracked
Know where your CNC, VMC, and grinder hours actually go. Reduce changeover time, plan tool changes, and stop losing capacity to invisible losses.
Machine-serial genealogy for life
Every machine you ship carries its full as-built record — castings, forgings, sub-assemblies, drawings, operators, test results. Field service and spares stop being detective work.
Quality holds and dispositions
Flag a part, hold the work order, route to MRB, capture the disposition. One workflow, one audit trail, no parts slipping through to assembly with the wrong status.
Where it fits in your plant
From single-machine job shops to multi-plant capital goods manufacturers building one-of-a-kind equipment.
Heavy machinery & capital equipment
Pumps, compressors, earth-moving and construction equipment, turbines, large fabrications. Long-lead engineered builds tracked end to end — from foundry to factory acceptance test.
- Project-level dashboards across long routings
- Sub-contractor and vendor coordination
- BOM and ECN control across configured builds
Machine tool builders
Lathes, milling centres, grinding machines, special-purpose equipment. Customer-specific configurations, precision assembly, and acceptance testing — recorded for every machine you ship.
- As-built record for every machine serial
- Geometric accuracy and acceptance test capture
- Version-controlled assembly drawings on the floor
CNC machining job shops
Multiple customers, hundreds of part numbers, frequent changeovers. Maximise machine utilisation, sequence jobs intelligently, and quote new work with real cost data.
- Setup and changeover time tracking
- Tool life, consumables, and spindle hours
- Real cost-per-part for accurate quoting
Hydraulics, valves, packaging & ag machinery
Hydraulic systems, valves, food and packaging machinery, agricultural equipment. Mid-volume builds with complex assemblies and growing customer demand for full traceability.
- Multi-stage assembly with serialisation
- Pressure, leak, and functional test capture
- Spares and field-service genealogy
What changes after FactorialOS
The shifts capital goods, machine tool, and machinery manufacturers see in the first few months — without ripping out their existing setup.
Dispatch dates you can defend
Long-lead builds stop slipping in the dark. Customers get honest updates — and you find slips early, when you can still recover.
More output from expensive machines
OEE on your CNCs, VMCs, and grinders climbs as setup, idle, and changeover losses become visible — and fixable.
Real cost-per-machine, real quotes
Knowing actual hours, material, and rework per build means quotes get sharper — and margins stop disappearing on jobs that “looked simple”.
Field service stops being detective work
A service call on a 5-year-old machine? Pull the as-built record in seconds. Send the right spare. Close the call without two weeks of digging.
Vendor follow-ups stop being a job
Live status on parts at outside vendors. Late shipments flagged early. Production planning stops depending on phone calls and guesswork.
Scales as you take on bigger projects
New product lines, larger orders, multiple plants — same system, same data layer. No second tool, no migration project.
Run your machinery shop floor with the visibility your customers expect
Show us a build — from quote to dispatch. We’ll show you what FactorialOS looks like running it.
Built for machine builders, capital goods makers, and CNC job shops.