Production software for manufacturers.
Job tracking, scheduling, quality capture, and machine data, built for how your floor actually runs instead of a template built for someone else's. We have shipped this kind of software inside a real plant and inside Dell's test infrastructure — not read about it in a case study.
The floor moves faster than the paperwork
Jobs get scheduled around machines, materials, and people, and the plan changes the moment a machine goes down or a job runs long. In most shops that reality lives on a whiteboard, in a spreadsheet, or in a stack of paper travelers that gets reconciled after the fact instead of read in real time.
Quality data gets captured by hand and filed away instead of feeding back into the next run. Reports reach the office a shift or a day late. Generic shop-floor software flattens every plant into the same set of work centers — your floor deserves software shaped like your floor.
Two different plants, the same discipline
Shop-floor operations
We architected and built the original SaaS product that ran a rotational-molding manufacturer's factories end to end, scheduling, logs, reporting, BOM, and machine workflows, replacing floor-wide printed spreadsheets. That foundation became RotoEdge Pro, in production use across multiple facilities today.
Test and quality data at scale
Before Date Palm Media existed, our founder built the distributed test automation platform behind Dell's proprietary server caching hardware, replacing manual QA data aggregation across fleets of test machines. When the division wound down, Dell open-sourced the entire codebase as OpenPastures in 2016.
One system, built around your process
- Job and work-order tracking — what is running, what is queued, and what is late, without a walk down the floor to find out.
- Scheduling — built around your machines, your materials, and your people, not a generic work-center model.
- Quality capture — captured at the point of work instead of written down and filed away.
- Machine data — pulled from the equipment you already have, where that data is available.
- ERP integration — your production system feeds your ERP clean data instead of duplicating what it already does.
- Reporting — pulled straight from production data, on the floor's schedule, not the office's.
A discovery you can budget, then a build you can budget
1. On-site floor discovery
A fixed-fee engagement on the same pattern as our Production Blueprint: starting at $2,500, with most engagements landing between $2,500 and $7,500 depending on plant size, machine count, and integrations. We walk your floor, learn how production actually gets scheduled today, and hand you a plan with a real price attached.
2. Phased, fixed-fee delivery
Each phase is scoped and priced before it starts, so you always know what the next invoice will be, and you can stop between phases if your priorities change.
3. Support
Once the system is running your floor, we stay on to keep it running: fixes, small changes, and the operational discipline the software depends on.
What plant and IT managers ask first
We already have an ERP.
An ERP tracks orders, inventory, and accounting. It usually has no idea what is actually running on the floor right now, what is queued behind it, or where quality data lives. We build the layer that talks to the floor and feeds your ERP clean data — we do not replace it.
We tried an off-the-shelf MES.
Off-the-shelf shop-floor software is built to fit as many plants as possible, which means it fits none of them exactly. If your process has a shape the software cannot represent, you end up working around it instead of running on it. We build to the shape your floor actually has.
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