MES for Job Shop Manufacturing

TAKE ON MORE WORK
WITHOUT MORE CHAOS.

Run your shop on AI-powered decisions built from live machine data, not last week's plan so your team knows what to prioritize, adapts when the schedule changes, and keeps every committed job moving toward delivery. 

 

 

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TRUSTED BY MACHINE SHOPS ACROSS THE WORLD
THE PROBLEM

THE PLAN CHANGES BEFORE THE SHIFT DOES

You know what needs to run. Then the day changes. The whiteboard is outdated by nine, hot jobs reshuffle priorities, and no one knows what the machines actually did. You need real production data captured automatically and decisions delivered when it matters most, without turning operators into data clerks.

YOU CAN’T MANAGE
HIGH-MIX WORK WITH
LOW-VISIBILITY SYSTEMS.

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THE OWNER IS THE SYSTEM

Quoting, scheduling, material, quality, the floor. It all runs through one or two heads, and those heads are the constraint on how big the shop gets.
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NOBODY KNOWS THE REAL NUMBER

Most shops believe their machines run far more than they do. The gap between believed and measured utilization is where the hidden capacity lives — the capacity you were about to buy.
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THERE IS NO IT DEPARTMENT

There’s a person who’s good with computers, and they also run the saw. Anything that needs administering doesn’t get administered.

KNOW IT. QUOTE IT.
SCHEDULE IT. RUN IT.

MaximaOS turns live shop floor data into decisions your team can act on. Know what each job takes, adjust priorities as conditions change, and keep high mix work moving on schedule.

KNOW YOUR REAL UTILIZATION.

Measure actual in cycle time by machine and shift, including older equipment. Capture every downtime event and rank it by cost. See the gap between assumed and real utilization, then recover the capacity you already have before buying more machines.
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STOP QUOTING FROM OUTDATED STANDARDS.

Build quotes from actual cycle and setup times, not old standards. Measure setup by job and machine, compare every quote to actual performance, and rank inaccurate ERP standards by dollar impact. Every finished job makes the next quote better.
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The schedule everyone actually works from.

Sync work orders, routings, and due dates from your ERP. See what’s running, what’s next, and what’s at risk based on actual machine pace. Reprioritize a job and operators see the change immediately at their station.
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One screen for the whole shift.

Run jobs, setup, counts, rejects, labor, and time tracking from one screen. Prompts keep records complete, labor is validated against machine activity, scrap is coded at the source, and finished first articles notify quality automatically.
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Unattended hours you can actually trust.

Monitor tool load in real time to catch wear or breakage before it becomes scrap. Optional feed hold protects the part, remaining tool life keeps replacements planned, and targeted alerts wake the right person when something needs attention.
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YOUR SHOP NUMBERS, WHEREVER YOU ARE.

Get utilization, downtime, at-risk jobs, and scrap automatically. Build dashboards for the floor or your phone, schedule reports without an analyst, and ask Max for answers in plain language. One set of numbers for running the shop, customers, and the bank.
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See It In Action

ABACORP had a manager walking the floor every hour writing down what each machine had made. Their director of operations priced those hours against the subscription and found the software paid for itself on that one task alone, before counting anything else. THE WALK PAID FOR THE SOFTWARE.

TESTIMONIALS

SHOPS THAT STOPPED GUESSING.

Owner-run floors that found capacity they already had, stopped walking the shop for answers, and got their evenings back.
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THE THINGS WE DON'T TRACK.

Some of the hidden monsters in manufacturing are the things we don't track. When you start tracking things, you start figuring out that there are a lot of things you didn't realize you were wasting."

- Efren Escobar, ABACORP

 A HAPPY OPERATOR.

“A board operator is a happy operator.”

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HE FOLLOWS IT TO THE SECOND.

"Before we got these, I timed everything right out myself. But now I can see exactly what I'm doing, where my MOs are, where I gotta stop, when the machine's down. I can follow it right to the second."

- Frontline Operator, Fairview Machine

KEEP EXPLORING TEAMS

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CONTRACT MANUFACTURING

Larger precision shops selling capacity and credibility on the same two numbers.
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AEROSPACE & DEFENSE

What changes when a first article gates every job and a prime scores your delivery.
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MEDICAL DEVICE

Small lots, tight tolerances, and a record that outlives the job.
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INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT

Where a single-plant deployment goes when the company has ten of them.
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WHAT IS THE EXECUTION GAP COSTING YOU?

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See what production gaps cost you in overtime, scrap, tooling, and maintenance, and how fast a modern MES pays for itself. Instant results.

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From Disconnected to Data-Driven Webinar | March 26

Discover how ABACORP integrated MachineMetrics with their ERP to enhance manufacturing execution, improves decision-making, and optimizes production efficiency. Tune in March 26.

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Tribal Knowledge to AI-Guided Execution: What We're Building

Your factory's smartest decisions live in your senior operators' heads. Here's how AI-guided execution turns tribal knowledge into real action on the shop floor

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Machine Utilization: Track and Improve Equipment Performance | MachineMetrics

Machine utilization is a simple measure of the productivity of equipment. It is calculated by dividing total run hours by the total number of available hours.

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SEE YOUR REAL UTILIZATION
BY NEXT WEEK.

Connect a few machines and find out how busy the shop actually is. No IT project, no data entry campaign, no commitment to the step after it.

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