The basics are never an upsell
Tracking a part is not a premium feature. Items, BOMs, changes, planning, work orders and inventory are core on every plan. What changes as you grow is how much room you have and which specialist add-ons you switch on.
Now in early access
Built for shops that actually make things
One place for your parts, your changes and the work on the floor. Built by manufacturers, for manufacturers.
What Gauge keeps track of
Items
Part numbers, revisions, files
BOMs
Multi-level, costed, released
Changes
Draft to implemented
Work
Orders, routings, floor
Why Gauge
Software that speaks shop
Built by a manufacturer, for the way a shop actually moves a part from quote to shipment.
Bring your own list
Bring the spreadsheet you already keep. Parts, materials, a supplier list: map the columns once, and nothing lands in your catalog that you didn't look at first.
Built by a manufacturer
Designed alongside a working shop floor, so the screens follow how parts actually move through a shop.
Projects and the floor
A prototype program that ends in real production work
This is the seam a shop usually papers over with a spreadsheet. A product tool knows the part but not the bench. A floor system knows the bench but not why the part changed. Gauge carries one record across both.
Project
Phase and checklist
OKA-20020 Vex9 Interceptor
Prototype phase, 6 of 9 checked
Phases you set yourself, named reviewers on the ones that need approval, and a sign-off that stays put. The tree here is the BOM, not a copy of it that drifts by Thursday.
Prototype build
Assigned, timed, signed
BUILD-0114
Assigned to a person, 4 steps done
One build, one person, its own steps and its own parts list. You get a clock you start and pause, and the part’s drawings on the screen behind it, so nobody goes hunting for a print. It closes on Complete and Sign Off, which records who closed it and when.
Production
Work orders on the floor
WO-4471
Form at Press Brake 2, running
The released routing turns into work orders. Somebody at the bench claims an operation, records units as they come off, and reports an issue against the step it happened on.
Why it mattersA part this project is holding stays locked to it, unless another product is linked in through a dependency or its tooling. Abandon the project and it hands the part numbers back. The handoff is not an export, because there is nothing to hand over: it is the same record the whole way.
Live in Gauge
This is what a part moving through your shop looks like
Both panels below are running on demo data. Neither one is a screenshot.
A project, advancing
- Concept
- Design
- Prototype
- Pre-Prod
- Released
Prototypefills as the phase checklist is checked off
A project is a product tree with phases. The bar is not decoration: it fills from the phase checklist, so the number on the screen has a source you can open.
A job at the bench
0:20:00On this opOKD-10008
Cockpit Canopy Frame · Form, Brake 2
78%14 of 18 units- Cut
- Form
- Weld
- Finish
- Inspect
The floor app is one job on screen, and its clock is kept on the server, so it keeps counting through a locked screen. Units are recorded against the operation that produced them, so yield and scrap land on the right step.
How it works
You decide. Gauge does the bookkeeping.
Three things you do, and the arithmetic Gauge should have been doing all along.
You
Add the part
Part number, revision, files. Or map the columns of a list you already keep and bring the whole thing in.
Take the order
The quote you won becomes the sales order. You decide how far along an order has to be before it can release production, so nothing hits the floor on a maybe.
Work the job
Start the operation, record units, report an issue, close it out. From the tablet at the bench or the phone in your pocket.
Gauge
Rolls the cost up
A parent costs the sum of its children. Reprice one bracket and every assembly above it re-costs itself.
Plans the material
Orders and forecasts turn into a material plan, with the date each shortage bites.
Suggests the buy
Each shortage arrives as a suggested purchase order, against the vendor and the lead time you already have on file.
Reserves the stock
What is promised to a job is held against it, so available stays a number you can act on.
Releases the work
Once an order reaches the status you chose, it becomes work orders with the routing already on them.
Keeps the record
Who cleared a gate, when an operation ran, what scrapped. Written as the work happens, not after.
Getting started
Your parts in, your shop set up, work released
No consultant, and no implementation phase. Four steps, in this order, and you do them yourself.
Bring your list in
Items, BOMs, materials, a supplier list. Map the columns once and read the preview, and nothing is written until you say so.
Import, not retyping
Set up the shop
Work centers, operations, equipment, locations, and how your part numbers are built. Gauge learns your vocabulary, not the other way around.
Your own settings
Add your people
Invite your crew and give each role only the screens it needs, by department and work center. Turn modules on as you go.
Roles, not seats
Release the work
A quote becomes an order, the order becomes work orders, and the floor picks the job up on a tablet.
Quote to bench
Ready to ditch the spreadsheets?
Gauge is in early access. Ask for access and we will take it from there.
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