Best Shop Floor Management Software for Freelancers
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What is Shop Floor Management Software for Freelancers?
Shop floor management software, also known as shop floor control software, enable production and manufacturing plants to manage all aspects of the shop floor, including job costing, inventory control and management, time tracking, materials, production analytics, and more. Compare and read user reviews of the best Shop Floor Management software for Freelancers currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Epicor Advanced MES
Epicor Software
Epicor Advanced MES is a manufacturing execution system that is suited to plastic molders, repetitive manufacturers and those with an assembly process involving multiple machines. It is designed to help floor operators to monitor and optimize their plant operations. Advanced MES helps manufacturers monitor and control their business with real-time plant and machinery information. The system enables users to identify inefficient resource allocations to find new capacity within the business. It also helps to track machine downtime and record scrap and material wastage in every production cycle. The software offers visibility into operations, real-time scheduling and process monitoring. Users can monitor up to 100,000 cycles and can see production details and descriptors. Maintenance teams can also access machine condition reports to plan preventive maintenance. Advanced MES offers integrations with accounting and manufacturing estimating capabilities. -
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Evocon
Evocon
Trusted by manufacturers worldwide, Evocon is a simple and easy-to-use OEE software that helps manufacturing companies improve their production efficiency and reduce waste. The system enables automated data collection, real-time data visualization, downtime tracking, bottleneck identification, and performance monitoring. With Evocon, you get all the tools you need to improve OEE and understand what is actually going on in your production processes.Starting Price: €159/month, per machine -
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Epicor Connected Process Control
Epicor Software
Epicor Connected Process Control (CPC) helps manufacturers improve shop floor management by connecting people, processes, equipment, and production data in a single platform. Digital work instructions, operator guidance, process control, and real-time data collection help standardize production and assembly operations while improving visibility across the shop floor. By providing real-time insight into production activities, quality events, process execution, and resource performance, CPC enables manufacturers to identify issues faster, reduce variability, improve operator consistency, and support continuous improvement initiatives. Whether deployed in a single work cell or across multiple production lines, CPC helps organizations drive greater operational control and efficiency. -
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Sutton
Sutton
Sutton (formerly Digit Software) is an AI-native operating system built for companies that manage physical operations, from manufacturing and inventory to distribution and beyond. It gives you a powerful, all-in-one core that runs your operations out of the box, with the flexibility to extend, shape, and mold it to fit exactly how your business works. With Sutton Studio, teams can build and launch their own custom apps directly on the platform using natural language, no code required, with permissions inherited from the tools they already use. The result is a system that adapts to your business in minutes, not months. The platform includes capabilities for supplier management, serialized and lot-based inventory tracking, bills of materials and routings, production scheduling, quality control, guided picking and packing, and order fulfillment. It features a built-in B2B portal for customer and distributor collaboration, job scheduling for production and service teams, and integrations with accounting and commerce tools such as QuickBooks and Shopify and so much more. By connecting systems that were once siloed, and letting teams extend the platform themselves instead of waiting on a vendor roadmap, Sutton becomes the real-time, AI-native operating system for product-based businesses, giving companies visibility, accuracy, and confidence across every process.Starting Price: $320/month -
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ValueStreamer
Staufen. ValueStreamer GmbH
Streamline your shop floor management with ValueStreamer, the all-in-one digital solution. Easily view team-specific KPI boards, handle deviation management on the spot, and solve problems with binding tasks using the PDCA and A3 problem solving methods. Automatically aggregate KPIs across all hierarchies. Effortlessly connect to your existing IT systems like MES, ERP, and EDGE through our standardized REST API. Go beyond basic BI and experience true collaboration within your company. Save time, effort, and money with ValueStreamer. Features include: - Target/actual key figures with automatic aggregation of KPI values - Linking of top issues, go & see, feedback, and actions - Deviation management with prioritization in the Pareto chart - T-Cards for process confirmation on the shopfloor - Connectivity via REST API to systems like MES and ERP - Mapping of typical company processes in medium-sized businesses such as AAP, product development process, CIP, and Kanban.Starting Price: $29.95 -
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Prodio
Prodio
Prodio is online manufacturing software that allows you to track progress in real-time, giving you a virtual window into your shop floor operations for optimal planning and total shop floor control. It improves communication between the shop floor and the sales team in the office, helping with cost and worker tracking. In addition, you can remove paper orders and spreadsheets to create a paperless manufacturing environment. Online production planning and real-time communication. Shop floor control and work in progress tracking. Orders and products management plus simple inventory. Time and attendance tracking. Products database and your company knowledge management. To start, you need a simple laptop or tablet on the shop floor with access to the Internet. There is a free 14-day trial, and you get set up in under 15 minutes, gaining access to all features without giving any credit card details, additional fees or lock-in contract.Starting Price: $97 per month -
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ProShop
ProShop ERP
ProShop is a paperless and web based shop management, ERP, MES and QMS system for manufacturing companies in regulated industries. ProShop was built on the shop floor of a machine shop for nearly 20 years, and it's not like anything you've seen. Built to manage the complex manufacturing environment better than anything else on the market - by an order of magnitude. Never before has there been a system that gives you such insight into every detail of your manufacturing company. ProShop is best described as a Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem (DME). It is 100% paperless, and combines the features found in ERP, MES, QMS, CMMS, and other software categories for machine shops, fabricators, job shops, contract manufacturers and others in regulated industries who need tight controls on their process and want exacting and timely information to make the best and most profitable decisions.Starting Price: Contact us -
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Cetec ERP
Cetec ERP
Cetec ERP is a production-focused, high value, cloud ERP for SMB manufacturing companies. It is built to help manufacturers solve their most difficult challenges, and run their business efficiently. As a web-native, Saas ERP solution, Cetec ERP is nimble and intuitive for users, and robust and flexible in functionality to adequately support a wide range of manufacturing processes. Cetec ERP helps to manage the manufacturing business end to end in a fully integrated, streamlined workflow - including complex BOMs in engineering, CRM, quoting and job costing, scheduling, production management tools, shop floor and order tracking, quality, inventory management, and accounting. It is designed for a dynamic, complex manufacturing environment, and excels in highly regulated industries such as aerospace/defense and medical devices. Services are offered on a monthly subscription basis that includes support via email, phone and through other online resources.Starting Price: $50.00/month/user -
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Quickbase
Quickbase
Deliver workflows and real-time visibility across your operations so your teams can outpace change. Extend and connect data, processes, and workflows to drive deeper insight and automation across complex processes and disparate systems. Adapt your operations faster to respond to opportunities and risks. Tailor workflows to support the unique, ever-changing ways your people work. Create new workflows to respond to emerging challenges and support new ways of working in days, not weeks. Create, connect, govern and continually improve an ecosystem of custom digital solutions on a secure platform for your most critical data and processes. Transform the way your data is used and safely empower your people to deliver real-time insights from one unified platform. Unlock your team's potential. Get started with Quickbase today. -
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Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform
Rockwell Automation
Drive plant floor efficiency with high-resolution visibility, error-proofed control, and a real-time production ecosystem that is connected to your ERP—by design. ERP systems weren’t designed for manufacturing execution. Plant floor information available post-production—or “back-flushed”—doesn’t help you control output at the manufacturing moment. Plex’s Manufacturing Execution Suite (Plex MES) gives you real-time production management so you have up-to-the-second manufacturing data—for end-to-end visibility and closed-loop control. Flexible, configurable, cloud-native solution for ease of deployment, standardization and integration to complement your corporate ERP system. Suite of unified shop floor applications on a common database to eliminate the risk of disruptions or errors due to inter-application integrations. Paperless, easy to use, operator control to increase productivity, and eliminate manual process errors.Starting Price: $3000.00 per month -
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DataXchange
Scytec Consulting
Scytec DataXchange is a Cloud and On-Premise OEE and analytic manufacturing machine monitoring system, and so much more. DataXchange increases overall equipment effectiveness, utilization and shop floor productivity through the use of innovative IIoT technology. DataXchange is compatible with a wide variety of manufacturing machines including CNC’s, PLC’s, robots, welders, and manual machines. Custom shop floor data entry rules can be created to automatically collect shop floor data from a wired or wireless connection on MTConnect, Fanuc FOCAS and OPC UA based machines as well as older and manual machines. As the machine data is collected, DataXchange has all the OEE reports, charts, dashboards and notifications you need to analyze the information in a meaningful way as well as triggering notifications, meeting the manufacturing data collection needs of small facilities as well as multi-site enterprise level operations.Starting Price: $45/month -
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ACTouch
AcTouch Technologies
ACTouch, a Cloud Manufacturing ERP Software is a comprehensive and integrated Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP Software) that helps a Digital transformation of Discrete manufacturing, Process Manufacturing or Heavy Engineering companies from their age old software that is conventional, on-premise and expensive one. In today’s competitive business environment, it’s essential to be ready to confront a competitive world. ERP Features solution that enables companies to compete at the prevailing market. A better direction for your existing Manufacturing processes to digitally transform Supply Chain to Production plan integrated with Sales, Procurement and Finance etc. ACTouch Cloud ERP is a Best Manufacturing ERP Software or best accounting ERP software that integrates your order and lead management, purchase and procurement management, production and shop-floor controls, inventory and stores management, accounts and finance, warehouse, import and export departments, etc.Starting Price: $20 per month -
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FactoryEdge
FactoryEdge
FactoryEdge has the software you need to run your manufacturing company. Software for inventory planning, accounting, material resource planning, ERP, MRP and operation tracking. Get every module and every feature included. No add-ons or surprises. Use what you need without ever paying extra. Build item routing by creating and manage operations. Both inside and outside operations are supported. Attach drawings and specifications for later use on the shop floor. Inside operations are used to build the traveler documents. Floor users can clock into operations to track status and cost. Printed documentation shows all operations, and material needed. The report can be customized to capture additional information.Starting Price: $95 per user per month -
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Rootstock Cloud ERP
Rootstock Software
Rootstock Software offers cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions tailored for manufacturing and supply chain organizations. Built on the Salesforce Platform, Rootstock provides modules for order management, manufacturing operations, supply chain management, and financials, ensuring seamless integration and comprehensive visibility across business processes. The platform's flexibility allows for customization to meet specific industry needs, supporting sectors such as aerospace, defense, medical devices, and high-tech manufacturing.Starting Price: $175 per month -
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Predator Software
Predator Software
Since 1994, Predator Software focuses on automating manufacturers worldwide with innovative and award-winning software applications. Predator Software is an industry leader in Industry 4.0, lean manufacturing, industrial networking solutions and automation via shop floor control or SFC. Predator's SFC technologies include CNC networking, machine monitoring, OEE, production data management, data collection, machine simulation & verification, tool & gage crib management, traveler management, CNC post processing, flexible manufacturing systems and robotic cell control software.Starting Price: $250 -
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Shop Floor IQ
Shop Floor IQ
Keep your product going out the door while you build a culture of accountability and continuous improvement with the ideal shop floor management platform for small to mid-size manufacturers. Create a team of consistently high performers who take pride in their craftsmanship with configurable, centrally-controlled Takt, or Task timers that you can manage from the shop floor, the top floor, or by the calendar. Use as many timers as you need and share them between stations, or configure timers for each station. Prevent downtime through effective communication. You can produce more and waste less by dispatching quality inspectors, weld inspectors, management and critical machinery/assets to a station when needed. Set up as many dispatch queues as you need and designate resources as primary, secondary or backup on one or more queues.Starting Price: $149 per month -
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Digital Teamboard
Shopfoor Management Systems GmbH
SFM Systems is a production and digital shop floor management software company from Darmstadt. Our Digital Teamboard software offers manufacturing companies the means to detect deviations and solve problems by utilising data analytics, systematic problem solving and machine learning. Essentially, it is a cloud-based software solution that provides a single point of access for all shopfloor data. The software can collect data from a variety of sources, including machines, sensors, and operators. This data is then aggregated and visualized in a way that is easy to understand and use. This helps companies to improve productivity, quality, and efficiency by providing real-time visibility into production data and enabling continuous improvement initiatives on the shop floor. -
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Machestra
Machestra
Machestra is production scheduling and shop floor management for small manufacturers running 3 to 30 machines. It replaces the spreadsheet, the whiteboard and the shared calendar with one place to see machines, people, materials and schedules. It does four things and deliberately nothing else. Jobs break into operations, and each operation gets its own machine, operator and time window, so you can follow a part through turning, milling and inspection instead of guessing where it is. The scheduling board shows what every machine is committed to and refuses to let you book the same one twice. Every operation records its actual start and finish against the times you planned, so your lead time estimates get sharper with each job. Pricing is flat by machine count with no per-user fees, so putting the whole crew on it costs nothing extra. Starter is $19/month, Growth is $79/month, both adjusted for local purchasing power. Free for up to 3 machines, no card, no time limit.Starting Price: $19/month -
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From shop floor to delivery, Aptean Industrial Manufacturing ERP WorkWise Edition offers complete visibility into your single-site operation. The result? You can streamline operations, improve efficiencies, manage complexity and grow your business. Select from 8 suites and over 45 applications to maximize the success of your operation—such as Shop Floor Control and Visual Scheduling, CAD integration, CRM, Product Configurator, Capacity Requirements Planning, Mobile Metrics. Manage shop floor changes, quality and machine maintenance schedules while accounting for real-world constraints including labor skills, materials and tooling availability with our comprehensive discrete manufacturing ERP toolset. Our award-winning Aptean CRM software is tightly integrated with Aptean Industrial Manufacturing ERP. With sales, marketing automation and customer service functions you gain a complete view of every contact and can use powerful tools to manage opportunities and improve relationships.
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IMCO-CIMAG MES
IMCO Software
Manufacturing is not a “one size fits all” industry when it comes to software technologies. Small to midsized manufacturers should be able to have access to customized solutions just like large corporations do. IMCO Software makes this possible for manufacturers of any size. Designed with smaller businesses in mind, IMCO – CIMAG MES helps manufacturers become more productive, increase efficiency, and lower costs. Real time communication of QC issues, automatic adjustment to QC fields, avoiding errors through preventative maintenance. Realistic, up-to-date production schedule, reducing response time to issues, reducing working capital tied up in inventory, real time visibility across the entire company. Experience real time visibility like never before with our global monitoring. IMCO - CIMAG MES is a state of the art shop floor control system that meets all 14 ISO requirements.Starting Price: $361.16 per month -
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Macola
ECI Software Solutions
Increase the speed and accuracy of doing business in today’s complex manufacturing environment and streamline operations like never before! With the new innovations available in Macola 10, you can easily configure your own workspaces at the user level – without the need for developers or consultants. Turn static data into consumable, usable information, set up business activity monitoring to automatically execute actions when triggers are met, and improve collaboration organization-wide with workflow, document management and customer relationship management capabilities – all included. Macola 10, offers 24/7 anywhere access via web services and mobile apps, built-in CRM, business intelligence and automated workflows. Macola 10 empowers you to manage core business functions such as project management, finance, HR and CRM, as well as streamline business process management—including automation, workflows and document management.Starting Price: $70.00/month/user -
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frePPLe
frePPLe
FrePPLe is open-source software with an open core that you can access in the community edition. We deeply value transparency, which is why you can access a free trial, public pricing, live demo, online documentation, community edition, etc. FrePPLe comprises modern architecture and APIs. It can be hosted in the cloud and it's easy to integrate and adapted to the New Ways of Working. Implementing free in 10 to 12 weeks is routine. No endless delays. No 6-digit project. Anticipate your supply needs. Let your planners and sales teams work together. Plan your inventory by computing safety stocks, reordering frequencies and quantities based on inventory policies. Set up tailored inventory policies for your products segments. Reorder on time, and only when it's time. Cut down on stockouts and overstocks in your inventory. Determine how often you should replenish your inventory. -
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Thrive
Lean Technologies
Thrive is your complete shopfloor toolbox comprised of six modules that seamlessly link to one another in one cohesive platform. Use one module or all six. Personalize the modules to your specific needs and unique processes. Central hub for all shopfloor data. Designed to give clarity to your data collection and processes. Track all actions, tasks, projects, communication, and goals in one place. Web-based, mobile-friendly. Sharable real-time reports and action items. Personalized dashboards and communication tools. ERP and machine integration. Streamline projects and improvement goals. Built in escalation tool with oversight to workflow. Action item notifications, and scheduling tools. Thrive is your all-in-one tool that will keep you, your team, and your entire organization on the same page, accessing the same data and effectively communicating for process, productivity and profit. Thrive is more than a lean manufacturing tool.Starting Price: $600 per user per month -
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Peakboard
Peakboard
With its low-code platform for creating industrial applications, Peakboard GmbH assists production and logistics companies in monitoring their internal processes and managing their own systems interactively. The solution can gather process data from all common data sources, including SAP, machine controls, material flow controls, and Excel. It can then evaluate and display this data on screens in real-time. This approach enables easy identification of sources of errors, thereby increasing productivity. Customers have the autonomy to decide which key figures they would like to be displayed on the dashboard. Furthermore, information can be relayed to over 90 connected IT interfaces using touchscreens. This establishes an intuitive user interface that employees in production and the warehouse can utilize to interact with the complex IT landscape. As a result, controlling production machinery becomes as simple as using a smartphone.Starting Price: 708 € (annually/license) -
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SMARTer Manager
SMe Software
SMARTer Manager - Easy to use, configurable, manufacturing management software. 30 years of manufacturing ERP software solutions for manufacturers like you. Which product is right for you? 1000’s have profited from implementing our Manufacturing ERP Software system. We have a solution for manufacturing pains from cradle to grave and more. Standard to Enterprise, it's your vision. No Hassle Software Demo- it's our promise. Manufacturers, move beyond accounting software, spreadsheets & homegrown software to integration and ease of use. SMe Software's products & their capabilities. Brochures designed to inform you about the features, benefits and integration of manufacturing ERP software system. SMe Software’s core manufacturing software solution for small to mid-size manufacturers starts with SMARTer Manager. Developed with a full suite of ERP software tools for any size business and is available in a Standard Edition, Mid-Size Edition, and an Enterprise Edition. -
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WinMAGI
Manufacturing Action Group
WinMAGI software provides tangible/relevant solutions for small to medium-sized manufacturers. We deliver our product economically with an easy implementation process so that every manufacturer has the opportunity to gain returns from ERP. Is a perpetual software license, which means you purchase, upfront, the license to use the software indefinitely. MAGI ON-SITE provides a fully-integrated, all-in-one small business management solution that’s deployed, managed, and maintained at your own site. Provides a cost-effective alternative to the upfront capital investment required with MAGI ON-SITE. MAGI TERM is a term license model under which you pay per year (or month) for complete access to our software. Maintained on your server instead of the web, Term does not force you to sacrifice security for upfront cost savings. Sales order entry, CRM, purchasing, warehouse control, shop floor control, MPS, requirements planning, product engineering, and sales CRM.Starting Price: $5,000 one-time payment -
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Exenta
Aptean
As consumers demand ever faster and more innovative products, fashion and soft goods brands and retailers are challenged to evolve with the times. To remain competitive in these fast-paced and competitive markets, companies need to find better ways to grow revenue while reducing costs. With no time to waste on complex and cumbersome systems, it’s time to take a fresh look at cloud PLM software for fashion companies. Representing a revolution in PLM, Exenta PLM software for fashion industry has the power to turbocharge your product lifecycle. Taking the user experience to a whole new level, it eliminates much of the tedious data entry to keep designers creative and automates time-consuming processes to speed products to market and simplify global collaboration. Whether considering your first system or an upgrade from your legacy PLM fashion software solution, a standalone or enterprise-integrated solution, we invite you to discover the evolution of PLM. -
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Trimble FabShop
Trimble MEP
Industry-leading fabrication shop management software. Trimble® FabShop sets the bar for complete shop management by providing unparalleled control over and visibility into your entire fabrication process. The entire picture in one system; control and track jobs, projects, evaluate pre-fabrication opportunities, then identify and resolve conflicts before they impact the shop floor. Control how your parts are entered, formed and fabricated. Draw custom parts not found within our extensive libraries of 2D and 3D parts. Use auto shape nesting to eliminate material waste. Receive the information you need for specific jobs or for your entire shop. Customize the reports to see the information your way. Use our tracking and mobile applications to streamline activities between the shop and job site and ensure there are no more lost parts. Use industry-leading, auto shape nesting to view any blank space by piece number, blank number or cut order. -
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shopfloor.io
elunic
shopfloor.io is an Industrial IoT application for cloud or on-premises operation with which you can connect your systems, products and employees and visualize all relevant data in well-structured cockpits. Tapping into the IoT potential of your machinery creates added value for the manufacturer, the operator and the end-users of the equipment. shopfloor.io creates a digital representation of all assets and staff within the production hierarchy and provides insight into all relevant data, processes and events. The centralized task management for users and operators allows you to track overdue, open and completed tasks on machine, employee and team level. Each entity has its timeline to display all relevant human and machine activities along with posts, comments and likes. In this social network of man and machines, processes become easier to understand and to optimize. shopfloor.io offers you a single source of truth for your product range or individual items. -
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Quisitive ShopFloor
Quisitive
Quisitive’s ShopFloor solution allows your team instant access to critical data, offers intuitive dashboards to track projects, equipment, inventory and process flows, and decreases demand on your IT infrastructure, saving time and money and increasing resource efficiency. Increase control of production with real-time visibility on downtime. Perform artificial intelligence-based predictive analytics on their historical and current machine performance data to predict machine failures and intervene preemptively. Integrate your proprietary hardware or third-party instruments into our IoT cloud data collection tool. Predict and execute proactive service to improve customer satisfaction and resource productivity. Minimize human involvement by dispatching maintenance and repair crews only where they’re needed, when they’re needed. Automate production workflows and reduce demand on IT infrastructure.
