Industries
Energy equipment sits between project work and series production, and most manufacturers in it are doing both at once. A switchgear order is engineered, a cable run is produced by the kilometre, and a battery assembly needs the cell batch recorded because the warranty depends on it. Planning has to cope with an order that is half catalogue and half drawing. Alibera plans from a multi level bill of material, records what went into each assembly, and pulls production data straight from the equipment where the equipment can provide it.
01What it has to do
The capabilities below are the ones that come up first in discovery calls with companies in this category.
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Multi level bills of material with make to order and make to stock planning, so a confirmed order drives the material requirement and the work orders rather than a separate spreadsheet that somebody has to remember to update.
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Every login, change and deletion is logged with the user name, a timestamp and a description of the action. It is a core feature rather than a paid extra, so when a customer asks who changed a quantity or a specification, there is an answer.
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Alibera reads data from CNC machines, Omron PLCs, Universal Robots and other IoT devices, and can send control commands back. That turns machine time into something the schedule and the costing can actually use, instead of a number somebody types in at the end of the shift.
02In this category
Every process below runs on the same core system. The differences show up in configuration, in which modules you switch on, and in what gets integrated.
03Where to go next
Three pages cover most of what gets asked after this one.
A discovery call is a conversation about your process, not a scripted product walkthrough. If Alibera is a poor fit for what you make, we will say so on that call.