Shop Manager

Workstation monitoring, job tracking, material logistics and quality control

The Shop Manager apps enable browser-based access throughout the shop to simplify production and boost efficiency. By replacing paper reports with a dynamic data interface, Shop Manager reduces errors, improves communication, and keeps parts moving efficiently.

Transform Your Shop Floor

Shop Manager hosts a range of modular tools to expedite part offloading and quality, update production progress, and manage inventory, logistics and more. Shop Manager also tracks job status in real time everywhere in the shop for informed management. Shop Manager is hosted onsite for secure shopwide communications.

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Color Offload

Efficient and paperless visual control for part offloading and tracking

Visual Efficiency: Color Offload transforms complex nests into interactive, color-coded graphics for fast, accurate part identification and unloading—eliminating paper reports and reducing errors.
Smart Controls: Operators can reject parts with real-time feedback, swap sheets on the fly, and apply custom color rules for clarity across mixed jobs—boosting flexibility and first-pass yield.
Connected Workflow: Automatic updates to SigmaNEST ensure real-time scheduling and inventory control, with remnant editing, machine time tracking, and tablet-friendly touch interface—integrated with Shop Floor Data Capture and LoadManager for seamless operations.

Shop Floor Feedback

Real-time dashboard for production feedback for each operation

Accurate Tracking: Shop Floor Feedback combines accurate data on machine run cycles, operator time and attendance into one fully-integrated system that allows a clear view of current job progress and statistics for work orders, operators, and departments.
Production Insight: Shop Floor Feedback is an easy access point to review and report inventory levels, worker checkpoints, and productivity data. Instantly view current job progress and quality by employee, job, department, or workstation. Record non-conformances, reject defective parts, and track the full production cycle of re-processed parts.
Work Clarity: Shop Floor Feedback enhances reporting and tracking capabilities by providing labels or summaries per workstation with bar codes or QR codes. Shop Floor Feedback offers a central application to administer operation and process assignments that employees can readily login and access.

Data Hub

Real-time visibility for smart production

Data Hub offers dashboards and metrics to view on any web browser device. Access levels are securely set for groups or individuals on a need-to-know basis.
Dashboards can help teams across the shop. Salespersons and estimators can track metrics such as win-loss ratio, average weekly markup, and production pipeline. Production managers can monitor material usage, uptime, and number of sheets for each machine in the shop. Programmers can view SigmaNEST program information such as scrap percentage, cut times, material data and programs processed.
Data Hub can display lists and status of work orders, jobs and quotes without revealing any financial data, as well as companies and contacts, purchase orders and deliveries, inventory quantity and locations, and more—all in one place.

Inventory

Shop floor logistics via mobile device

The Inventory module operates seamlessly on any mobile device or tablet, enabling efficient stock movement across operations. Its intuitive interface supports bar code scanning for a fully paperless workflow. Users can easily track remnants, transfer stock between locations, and deliver cut list materials to the right workstation.

Receiving

Mobile access for receiving and inventory

The Receiving module works on any mobile device to simplify receiving shipments and booking to inventory while automatically updating MRP/ERP data. Users can receive shipments according to purchase orders without displaying financial details such as cost and price. Users can record actual material received as well as location and heat number, create Goods Received Notes and more.

Shipping

Mobile control at the point of shipping

The Shipping module works on any mobile device to simplify shipping throughout the operation while automatically updating the SigmaNEST database. Users can access pertinent shipping data without displaying financial details such as cost and price. Users can track outgoing shipments, create shipping notes and print packing slips. Users can also divide deliveries based upon allowable package weight limits and add accurate shipping weight and price.

Quality Manager

Log non-conformances from the shop floor

Quality Manager (QMS) software helps customers target and maintain ISO9001 quality certification. Users can log non-conformance reports (NCRs) for any deviation from material, process or part specification. Logs can contain detailed notes, documents and pictures, as well as a full change history.
Quality Manager users can create Corrective Action/Preventative Action (CAPA) plans to record and address repeated issues. CAPAs can also contain reports, details, documents and history log and well as links to NCRs filed against the issue.

Shop Clock

Integrated module for time and labor

Shop Clock allows all employees across the facility from production to front office to clock in and out of work for shifts and breaks. Management can create shifts and break times and assign a work calendar to employees.
A log of time punches can be exported in CSV format and imported for use in any major payroll software.

Shop Manager delivers better visibility and control across your operations. Its seamless integration and flexible design empowers teams to reduce waste, make faster decisions, and scale with confidence.