Industries
Machine builders sell the same product twice and never quite the same way. Every order is a variant, the bill of material grows a few options each year, and the spare parts business quietly becomes a second company with its own stock and its own lead times. The usual result is an engineering department that owns the truth in CAD and a production department that works from a printout. Alibera holds the variant bill of material, drives work orders from a confirmed order, and keeps the spare parts stock in the same inventory as production material.
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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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.
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A REST API secured with keys and signed tokens, plus Excel and CSV import and export as standard. Accounting, e-commerce and CRM data can be exchanged through a dedicated interface or through files, whichever is cheaper to maintain.
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.