The product
Manufacturing MRP Software From Enquiry To Despatch
Customer demand, material, capacity, production, quality and cost remain linked throughout the manufacturing journey.
The Manufacturing Journey
Each stage uses the same connected record, reducing rekeying and preserving the history of the job.
Machine and labour capacity
A Machine Is Only Available When Somebody Can Run It
Materials planning and capacity planning are two separate runs that answer two different questions. MRP answers what to make and buy, and by when. Finite planning then answers whether the hours exist to do it. Material requirements planning, purchasing and actual job costing are included in Core, alongside machine planning on work-centre calendars. Staffing-aware planning is included in Factory and Connected Factory. New to the term? What is MRP, and what does it actually do? explains the calculation and the data it needs.
Keystone narrows a work centre’s calendar to the minutes somebody is actually rostered to that machine. Lights-out hours are counted separately, because unattended running is real capacity and counting it with manned hours under-reports the shop.
What comes out is a number a supervisor can act on: the Doosan is open on Thursday and nobody is on it, and here are the minutes lost. Double bookings — one person rostered to two machines in the same half day — are reported and never silently resolved, because which machine they are actually on is the rota writer’s decision, not the software’s.
Full Traceability, Raw Material To Despatch
Track any batch of material from goods-in through production to the customer who received it. Every job records the drawing revision it ran to, so a repeat order six months later is not guesswork.
Find the recorded material and production history when a customer queries a delivery. When a batch turns out bad, see every job that used it before it ships.
See Keystone Precision With Your Manufacturing Workflow
A tailored walkthrough follows one of your jobs from customer demand through planning, production, quality and despatch.