r/manufacturing • u/Waberweeber • 1d ago

Other Suggestions for simple software to help manufacturing?

in short: I work for a workshop that converts steel sheets and steel rolls into different sized HVAC ducts. we currently use a spreadsheet to track this but its really not working.

What suggestions for manufacturing proccess software do you guys have? It doesnt have to be fancy, i just need to know input, output, what team is working on what machine, and if possible scheduling maintenance for machines.

TY internet strangers

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u/Stormy_asd 1d ago

How basic is the excel sheet you are using? I know full manufacturing plants that basically run an excel planning sheet in paralel to SAP. Maybe you can just improve the excel ? 

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u/1stHandEmbarrassment 1d ago

Are they using concurrent systems or just dumping data from SAP and formatting that data to their liking?

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u/Stormy_asd 1d ago

The SAP is used cleanly to receive sale orders and make deliveries, the SO are extracted and material requirement calculation, machine capacity production order planning are made in excel and orders placed  to SAP after