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YOUR BEST SHIFT,
EVERY SHIFT.

Workforce capability is the constraint on modern manufacturing, and it isn't just a hiring problem. ShopPulse brings automation, AI guidance, and your own processes to every station. Lift workforce performance and give operators everything they need to win the shift.

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EVERY SHIFT RUNS A DIFFERENT PROCESS.
SO EVERY SHIFT PRODUCES A DIFFERENT NUMBER.

Your most experienced machinists are retiring, and their replacements get less time to learn and more to do. Meanwhile, job mix is climbing, so there are more changeovers and more chances for a setup to go sideways. You can't train your way out of this fast enough. The answer has to live in the work itself.

OUTPUT THAT DOESN'T DEPEND ON TENURE

The same guidance, the current documents, and the same workflow at every station — so a new hire on nights runs the job the way your best operator would.

PLANNABLE CAPACITY

When shift-to-shift and site-to-site variance flattens, the number you commit to a customer stops being a function of who's on the roster.

RELIANCE ON TRIBAL KNOWLEDGE

Expertise captured in the flow of work rather than in a notebook, so it stays in the building when the person who held it doesn't.

BUILT FOR THE WORK
OPERATORS ACTUALLY DO.

Automated where the machine knows the answer. Guided where it doesn't. Configured to your process either way.

The job comes to the operator, not the other way around.

The current job, what's next, live progress against order quantity, and an ahead-or-behind pace indicator, so an operator knows where they stand without asking anyone. Counts and cycle times come from the machine control, and idle events are categorized in a single tap. Sign in by name, PIN, or badge.

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Your best operator's answer, available to everyone.

Job documents and setup sheets surface when a job begins, always the current revision. Operators ask MaxAI a question in plain language and get the answer from your own documentation instead of waiting on the one person who knows. Setup runs as its own mode with expected timers, and pauses and resumes when a changeover spans a shift.

Tailored to each operation.

Stations are configured by role and by machine, so each operator sees the fields and actions their work requires. Help buttons are yours to define, from supervisor to maintenance to quality, and route a request without the operator leaving the machine. For workflows specific to your operation, your team builds the app in Carbide and deploys it to the station.

Scrap and first articles handled where the part is made.

Reject quantities are captured with required reason codes, tied to the job, operation, and machine that produced them. First article inspection routes the first piece to a central quality queue, with live status at the machine so the operator knows whether to wait. Records export for ISO 9001, AS9100, and IATF 16949.

Nothing learned on one shift gets lost on the next.

At clock-out, operators add notes by text or voice. MaxAI turns them into a structured handover grouped by machine, and the incoming operator sees it at sign-in beside their assigned work. Every fix and workaround becomes part of what the plant knows instead of leaving with the person who found it.

Assembly, inspection, and finishing run the same loop.

Most execution systems only reach the work with a spindle attached. Manual Stations bring assembly, inspection, and finishing into the same interface with the same ERP sync, so the work between machines stops being the part nobody can see.

See It In Action

Released orders and routings come in from your ERP. Labor, counts, and scrap go back the same way. Supervisors see every job and every idle minute as it happens, so the numbers leadership reports come off the machines instead of end-of-shift paperwork. THE RECORD MAKES ITSELF.

TESTIMONIALS

THE FLOOR DECIDED IT WAS WORTH KEEPING.

Three plants where the tablets stopped being something management installed and became something operators ask for when they stop working.

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FOUR MACHINES. THE LOAD OF TWO.

"In the early days, we were two machines to a person, and we've been able to grow that to three, in some cases four per person. That journey is all about how we design a path so the machinist is running four machines, but the mental load is just running two."

- Bill Berrien, Chief Executive Officer

A COMPLETE ONE EIGHTY.

"Before, it was just like, why is there a tablet there? Now it's like, my tablet's not working. I need my tablet. It's a complete one eighty from where we were."

- Efren Escobar, Director of Operations

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NOBODY WANTED TO GO BACK.

"Once we moved away from manual paper entry, no one wanted to go back."

- Dennis Mursoi, Continuous Improvement Manager

WORK ORDER MANAGEMENT

The record the operator confirms, and what happens to it after they hit submit.

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LABOR TRACKING & COSTING

One sign-in at the machine covering time, job, and counts. No second timekeeping system.

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QUALITY & SCRAP REDUCTION

Reject reasons captured at the machine while the operator still knows why.

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PRODUCTION SCHEDULING

The priorities that reach the station are updated the moment planning changes them.

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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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WEBINAR

The Blind Spots in Your ERP (And They're Costing You)

Join us for a financial conversation for leaders who want to understand where ERP numbers stop being trustworthy, and what it takes to close the gap.

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CALCULATOR

Manufacturing ROI Calculator | What the Execution Gap Costs You

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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Connected Manufacturing Worker

YOUR BEST SHIFT,
EVERY SHIFT.