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Does what happens on the floor match what the system says?

Bill of materials, routing, planning, quality records and traceability — in manufacturing, digital maturity is measured by how much of that chain actually lives in the system. If you manufacture, MindDX Digital Transformation Platform's question set runs along that chain, with questions that map to Odoo ERP and abas ERP.

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What makes this hard on the shop floor?

Excel

The BOM lives in two places

The BOM in the system and the spreadsheet production actually uses have drifted apart. A revision lands in one and not the other; which one is right only becomes clear when something goes wrong.

Experience

Planning depends on a person

Work-order sequence, capacity and priority sit largely in the planner's experience. When that person goes on leave, so does planning.

After the fact

Real cost is known only after the job

Scrap, rework and downtime don't fully reach the system, so unit cost stays an estimate; when quoting, which jobs actually earn is unknown.

By hand

Traceability is assembled when asked for

When a batch is recalled or a customer asks for records, they don't come out of the system in one step; which raw material went into which batch is pieced together by hand.

What MindDX does here

How much of the chain is in the system

Bill of materials, routing, planning, quality records and traceability are asked one by one; the question set is built for the manufacturing profile and service questions never come up.

Where it breaks

Discovery surfaces the points where what happens on the floor and what the system records drift apart: work-order feedback, revision control and stock movements break most often.

The truth about cost

Do scrap, downtime and rework reach the system, and do they flow into unit cost — those two questions decide whether you know which job earns when you quote.

Where to start

If you already run an ERP

Start with Audit: which capabilities sit idle in production, planning and stock, and which work has left the system, reported department by department.

If a new system or migration is on the table

The free scan and the full Checkup measure your readiness with the manufacturing question set; Discover builds the fit-gap in manufacturing terms. Which software gets chosen is an input to the decision, not the output of the measurement.

Related products: MindDX Checkup · MindDX Discover · MindDX Process

Purchase restriction: the Process X-ray can currently be purchased only for Odoo.

One more thing you can measure before you start

ERP Risk Test

In ten questions, see where your ERP project carries the most risk; it takes about two minutes.

ERP Risk Test →

Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently asked

Do manufacturers get different questions from service companies?
Yes. When you set your company profile to «manufacturing», questions about bills of materials, routing, work-order planning, scrap/downtime records and traceability open up; the project-hour and resource-planning questions specific to the service profile are not asked. What changes is what is asked, not how many.
Which ERP do you recommend — Odoo or abas?
Measurement first, recommendation after. The assessment and discovery output shows which processes have a standard counterpart and which need customization; the product recommendation is built on that picture. On the manufacturing side both Odoo ERP and abas ERP are in our scope, and they suit different production patterns.
Where should we start?
Get a direction in minutes with the free Digital Maturity Scan; then the consultant-reviewed full assessment puts your decision on a numerical footing.

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Plan production on measurement, not on guesswork

Measure with the free Digital Maturity Scan Talk to a consultant (20 min)