MRP Software For UK Precision Manufacturers
Know what you need to buy, what you can make with the people and machines available, and which orders are at risk. Keystone connects planning, shop-floor activity, quality and actual job cost in one system made and supported in Sheffield.
A Paperless Shop Floor
Less Paperwork. More Production.
Give operators job information on screen and record time, completed quantities and scrap at the terminal. Reduce printed job sheets, handwritten updates and retyping in the office.
Plan The Work Your Factory Can Actually Deliver
Connect customer orders, materials, available people and machine capacity. Follow each job through production, quality and despatch, with actual cost and the records behind every decision.
Plan Machines And People Together
Work centre calendars narrowed to the hours somebody is rostered, with unattended running counted separately and conflicts shown before the week starts.
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Compare The Agreed Plan With Actual Progress
Publish a plan and follow confirmed progress against it. A job running late shows as slippage rather than quietly moving every commitment behind it.
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A measured result against its tolerance, the instrument it was measured with, and the calibration that stood on the day, kept on the record that released the parts.
Illustrative · synthetic dataFollow A Single Order Through The System
The same order, seen at six points between the customer asking for it and the margin being known. This is a demonstration using fictional orders, parts and customers.
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Customer order
Sales order SO-2026-1844 — 600 units across two lines, 240 of them the motor mounting bracket, required 9 October. The promise date every later decision is measured against, and the delivery risk banner naming what threatens it.
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Material requirement
MRP nets the order against free stock and raises a buy recommendation. Eleven sheets of 3mm 304 stainless are needed and six are on hand. Keystone shows the shortage, the works order it belongs to, and the replenishment order that is nine days late.
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Schedule
Operations are placed on work centres across the horizon, with set-up and run distinguished and anything waiting on material or tooling held in the job pool rather than dropped on a machine that cannot start it.
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Shop-floor booking
The operator signs in at the machine and books against the works order. 124 of 240 made, three scrapped, operation 3 of 10 — visible while the job is still running, not after it has shipped.
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Quality
Inspection is queued against the job, not kept in a separate folder. The in-process check on WO-10452 names the revision, the quantity presented and the inspector who signed it.
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Actual margin
Material, labour and machine time, subcontract and overhead, booked against the job while it runs rather than totted up after it ships. £19,454 booked to date against a standard cost of £51,480 for the full 240, so the next quotation for this part starts from what the work actually took.
Two more questions come up every week. Which jobs are waiting for inspection or subcontract work? and what did that job actually cost? Both have a page of their own.
Production planning
Every Work Centre And The Jobs Assigned To It
Answers For The Decisions That Shape The Day
Keystone connects demand, materials, capacity, production, quality and cost so each answer comes from the same live record.
CNC-02 is double-booked. Two operations want the same machine at the same time, and the plan says so before the week starts rather than on the morning it matters.
Illustrative · synthetic dataWhich Of Your Orders Will Miss Its Date?
Keystone compares the promised date against the works order, the operations booked so far, the material still outstanding and any inspection holding the job. It returns the list, not a percentage. See production planning.
What Do You Need To Buy, And By When?
An MRP run nets accepted demand against stock, open production, issued purchase orders and requisitions, week by week. Every recommendation names the order behind it, so you can see why it wants you to buy. See material requirements planning.
See Overloaded Work Centres And Uncovered Shifts
The plan loads work centres against their calendars, then narrows each one to the hours somebody is rostered to that machine. Unattended running is counted separately, so a machine with no operator on it shows up before the week starts. See finite production planning.
Two more questions come up every week. Which jobs are waiting for inspection or subcontract work? and what did that job actually cost? Both have a page of their own.
Connected Factory
Machine Performance Linked To The Order It Affects
We install a small collector unit on your network. It reads machine state and ties each reading to the works order that was running. When a machine stops for four hours, you see which works order was running and assess the impact on its customer order.
Collection only reads: nothing in Keystone can start, stop or change a machine. What a control exposes varies by its age and interface, so we confirm what we can read from your machines before you commit.
Keystone AI
Factory Intelligence That Identifies Risks Early
Factory Watch checks manufacturing records on a schedule and links each finding to the records behind it. Your team decides what action to take. Factory Watch checks eight areas of the factory record on a schedule: commercial, planning, materials, production, quality, machines, people and despatch. Each finding names the records behind it, carries a priority and an owner, and can be acknowledged, snoozed or actioned.
Implementation
Implementation Led From Sheffield
There is no client software to install on office machines or shop-floor terminals.
We begin with on-site discovery, then configure the system, import and validate your data, train each team and move to a controlled go-live. The plan is prepared after discovery, so it reflects the state of your data, the connections you need and the number of sites.
Keystone runs manufacturing operations. The ledger stays where it is, telemetry stays read-only, and CAD and CAM stay in the tools your engineers already use.
See Keystone Precision With Your Manufacturing Workflow
A tailored walkthrough follows one of your jobs from customer demand through planning, production, quality and despatch.
£595
a month for Core. Prices for the three standard packages are published. Enterprise is quoted separately.
Unlimited
shop-floor users on every plan. Booking on to a job never counts against the office allowance.
25–150
the size of factory Keystone is built for, and the size we have designed every screen around.