For manufacturing companies
The production management system born inside companies.
zProduction is the Sandeza platform configured for manufacturing companies: it follows them from sales to quality in one single system, with quotes, bills of materials, costs, production, warehouse, traceability and invoicing. It was designed around the needs of people working on the shop floor and in engineering, to be a support and not a burden.
Who it is for
Companies that manufacture, make-to-order or in series.
Manufacturing companies, including subcontractors, working to project or in series, in small and large batches. It is used above all by companies with machining centres, internal and external operations, long bills of materials and high quality requirements: in regulated sectors such as medical, it has been validated according to GMP, in compliance with FDA rules.
- Metalworking
- Wood
- Plastics
- Electromechanical assembly
- Electronics
- Medical devices
- Machine tools and industrial equipment
What it does
One system for the whole order flow.
It performs the functions usually called management system, CRM, MRP, MES and document management. It is adopted one module at a time: if there is already a system for logistics and administration, zProduction can cover production only.
Costing and quoting
Cost per batch with all its components, quick quoting by similarity, make-or-buy comparison.
Production orders
Release to order, by grouping, to stock or mixed; times, costs, requirements and inspection plans calculated at release.
Shop floor data collection
On iPad or touch screen: quantities, scrap, downtime, set-ups, checks and consumption, with barcodes and QR codes.
Quality control
Inspection plans by operation, sampling, measuring instruments and calibration, non-conformities.
Materials procurement
Purchasing dashboard with an always up-to-date MRP calculation, requests for quotation and purchase orders.
Smart planning coming soon
Finite-capacity planning and multi-scenario optimisation, in collaboration with the Politecnico di Torino.
Item technical sheet
The heart of the system: multi-level bill of materials, routings, instructions including video, tooling, machine programs.
Logistics and traceability
Physical and logical warehouses, automatic labelling, traceability by lot, expiry date or serial number.
Invoicing and processes
Italian e-invoicing (SDI), processes and procedures with approval signatures, documents linked to every record.
Add-on
DataHub
Connects zProduction to other systems through a single API to read and write any data, also via ODBC and OData: external systems work on replica tables and never touch live data. Every operation is kept in a complete audit log. With DataHub Cloud, data is available online for reserved areas for customers, suppliers and agents, e-commerce, Business Intelligence and custom apps.
How it works
From request for quotation to shipping.
- The customer request comes inSales takes it on. Engineering and quality assess feasibility and get the production cost for different batch sizes.
- The quote becomes an orderThe price is negotiated knowing what production costs. When the customer confirms, the order is already in the system: nobody retypes it.
- Warehouse and purchasing know what is neededLogistics checks stock and prepares production orders; the system plans and returns material requirements, which purchasing uses to order from suppliers.
- The shop floor records while it worksProgress, downtime, scrap and quality checks are recorded on iPad or panel PC; work given to subcontractors is recorded in the same system. Whoever monitors margins sees them while the job is still open.
- Shipping and invoicingLogistics ships with the quality certificates attached; administration already has everything that happened.
See it at work
zProduction in five minutes.
The system as its users see it: instructions on the tablet, costs, planning, traceability, machine connection.
The full demo is online: it runs 1 hour 38 minutes, in Italian, and it is the same for everyone. In a one-hour call we run it on your processes, and you ask the questions.
Why it is different
Born in production, for the whole company.
It starts from the factory
Most management systems come from administrative and accounting needs. zProduction was born side by side with people working on the shop floor every day, and carries everything that happened through to administration, already recorded.
It adapts to the process
No straitjacket: processes are defined in the system, with their checks, so the data matches what really happens.
Data is right from the start
Information is collected when and where it is generated, and each piece of data is entered only once.
Process quality
Procedures, revisions, non-conformities and returns managed as processes, with approval steps and tasks assigned to each person.
One module at a time
Adoption is progressive: you start from one process and add the rest when the company is ready.
Always up to date
All customers work on the same platform, which continuously receives new standard features.
Multi-company, multi-currency and multilingual. On Mac and Windows in the office, on iPad or panel PC on the shop floor. It integrates with other management systems, web services, machines and quality instruments.
Testimonials
Who uses it every day.
zProduction
BLT — moulds and precision tooling
Moulds for plastics and precision tooling for dispensing and medical. The work focused on item management, to bring different processes together.
zProduction
Contract metalworking
Sales, logistics, production and quality in one system, connected to the machines.
zProduction
High-precision mechanical components
iPads on the shop floor with instructions and data collection, from paper to digital.
Let’s look at zProduction on your processes.
A demo of about one hour. Not the usual sales presentation: a concrete discussion of the way you work, that brings out ideas and issues you had not seen.