We wrote this directly on a factory floor.
One printer spent ten years and eight attempts on this. ERPs, spreadsheets, Airtable, consultants. Not one of them failed for want of features. They failed because nobody on the floor would touch them, so the numbers never got in, and nothing ever improved.
A decade of tries. Same ending.
Eight attempts over ten years, and every one died the same three ways. It was too complex, because it was built for the office and handed down to the floor. It demanded the factory change its way of working, when that way was learned over decades. And it needed people who could read screens and type, when the operator has oily hands and no time. He will not do it, and nobody can make him. So the numbers stayed in his head and you were back to asking three people and getting three answers.
So we designed it the other way round. We started at the machine, in a running factory, and asked what that man will actually do. The answer was three taps. And because humans make mistakes, the system does not wait to be asked: it raises the slipping order and the low stock on its own. Everything else is built on top of that one habit, because that is where the numbers come from.
Theirs started in an office.
What we have left out on purpose.
We would rather do production so well that your floor uses it every day, than ship fifty modules nobody opens.
Accounting is not here yet
Tally stays your account book today. Tally sync and full accounting are both on the roadmap, so later you can keep Tally or move onto ours.
We do not reschedule yet
The Gantt shows you the load today. Dragging jobs around on it, and capacity planning, come later.
Capture is online only
If the wifi drops the worker is told plainly that the entry did not save. Nothing is lost quietly. Offline queueing comes later.
We have no patent. We have a floor.
Our edge is that the thing is easy to use, the AI is real, and it fits an Indian SME factory the way nothing built abroad does. If a competitor genuinely got the floor using their software, they would close the gap. So far none have. We keep our lead by staying on the floor, next to the people using it.
The questions you are about to ask.
The whole design is built around that one question. Entry is three taps. Scan, scan, a number. Nothing to read and nothing to type. This is why it gets used where the last system did not.
That one was built for the office and handed down to the floor. This one was built on a factory floor first. The machine operator can use it on day one, so the numbers actually reach you.
You are already paying, in wastage, short shipments, idle machines and your own time walking the floor. That bill just is not on a page you can read. And everyone you compare yourself to is paying it too, which is why it feels normal. The factories that systemised left your local circle and now compete nationally. Here is what free actually charges you.
Not today. Prodman ERP runs your production and Tally stays your account book. Tally sync and full accounting are both on the roadmap, so later you can keep Tally or move onto ours.
Because the last system asked your floor to do the office's data entry. Prodman ERP asks for good and scrap, and works everything else out. Work in progress is not typeable. Not by the floor, not by the office, not through the API. There is nothing to fall behind on.
They chase, inside rules you set. Six chases ship and every one starts switched off. They work only inside Prodman ERP and only on your own staff, they raise work but never close a person's work, they run inside a shift you set, and any action can be undone by a named human. They never contact your client or your supplier.
Printing is live and upholstery is next. The core fits any trade that makes things in ordered stages, on machines. Tell us your trade and we will show you the mapping.
Aquevix has built software since 2006 for Indian and international businesses, including Humana, KFC, DaVita and IKEA. The same team now builds for the Indian factory floor.
Stop putting out fires. Start seeing the floor.
Book a 30-minute demo and we will show you Prodman ERP on a factory like yours. We take only a few factories each quarter, because we set up every one of them on site, by hand.
Taking on a limited group this quarter