What usually breaks in a plant
The plan on the whiteboard and the reality on the floor rarely match, and the gap only surfaces when a delivery date arrives.
Material Shortages
Production stops because a component was never ordered against the plan.
No Live Progress
Order status is known only when the supervisor walks the floor.
Unmeasured Scrap
Rejections are absorbed into cost without anyone analysing the cause.
Manual Traceability
Batch genealogy is reconstructed from paper registers during an audit.
Costing After the Fact
Actual cost per job is calculated weeks after the goods have shipped.
Idle Capacity
Work centres sit waiting because scheduling happens outside the system.
How we configure Odoo for the floor
Engineering & BOM Control
Multi-level bills of material with routings, work centres, standard times, and engineering change tracking.
Planning & MRP
Demand and forecast turned into manufacturing and purchase orders, with shortages flagged before the line starts.
Shop-Floor Execution
Operators start, pause, and complete work orders on a tablet at the work centre, so progress is live.
Quality Gates
Inline and final inspection points inside the routing, with pass, fail, and rework handling.
Maintenance
Preventive schedules and breakdown records against each machine, linked to work centre availability.
Costing & OEE
Actual versus standard cost, scrap analysis, and equipment effectiveness from live production data.
Odoo apps in this build
Production models we support
Discrete Manufacturing
Assembly operations with deep BOMs, routings, and work centre scheduling.
Process Manufacturing
Batch production with yield variation, by-products, and expiry-controlled inputs.
Make-to-Order Fabrication
Job shops quoting from a BOM and tracking cost against each individual order.
Contract Manufacturing
Subcontracted operations, customer-supplied material, and per-client traceability.
What the plant gets
Order progress by work centre
Lot and serial traceability
Scrap, OEE, and actual cost
Shortages caught before the line stops
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