Every machine hour, every job-work challan, on one board.
Routings and machine-hour rates, finite scheduling, shop-floor runs and OEE, preventive maintenance, and job work sent out for heat treatment and plating. Tathven Agentic ERP runs an engineering shop in one system, with an AI assistant that knows which orders are late and why.
CNC and VMC turning and milling, presses and grinding.
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Fabricators and assemblers
Cutting, welding and assembly, with outside processes.
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Auto-component suppliers
Batch and serial tracked parts to OEM schedules.
The pain points
And how Tathven answers each one
Planning the shop
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Routings that live in the foreman’s head
The pain
Which machine, how long to set up, how long per piece: it lives in the foreman’s head, so quotes and delivery dates are guesses.
How Tathven solves it
Each part has a bill of materials and a routing: the step, the work centre, setup minutes, run time and transfer time. Outside steps carry their own lead days. Work instructions and drawings can be filed against a routing step. Sub-assemblies are made on their own production orders and handed to the parent order.
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“Which CNC is free on Thursday?”
The pain
Machines are booked on a whiteboard. A rush order upsets the week and nobody sees what slips.
How Tathven solves it
Each CNC, VMC, press, grinder and welder is a work centre with its machines, working calendar, machine-hour rate and operator pool with skills and leave. Production orders are scheduled on a board against what each machine can actually do, and auto-schedule places open orders by due date. Orders can be dragged to a new slot.
✨ How the agentic ERP helps
Ask “which production orders are running late, and why?” or “which machine is free for a 500-piece run?” The assistant reads the schedule and the machines, then prepares the schedule, a reschedule or extra overtime for you to confirm.
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A machine-hour rate nobody believes
The pain
The machine-hour rate in the costing sheet was set years ago.
How Tathven solves it
Each machine carries its own hour rate, or uses its work centre’s. A proposed rate can be worked out from the machine’s depreciation over its calendar hours.
On the floor
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Downtime nobody writes down
The pain
A machine stops for a tool change or a breakdown, and the reason is never recorded. Utilisation is a guess.
How Tathven solves it
The shop floor screen starts, pauses and stops each run, with good and rejected quantities and the reason for every stop. Downtime reasons and defect types come ready for engineering. Utilisation and OEE show how much of each machine’s time made good parts.
✨ How the agentic ERP helps
Ask “how much downtime did the VMCs have this month, and why?”
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Breakdowns instead of maintenance
The pain
Maintenance happens when a machine breaks.
How Tathven solves it
Preventive maintenance is planned for each machine, every so many days or running hours, with due and overdue flags. A planned maintenance blocks the machine’s calendar, and a daily mail lists what is due. A breakdown stop can mark the machine down.
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First-piece checks on paper
The pain
First-piece and in-process checks are written on a sheet, and a bad batch is found at final inspection.
How Tathven solves it
Each operation can carry its own checks: a measurement between limits, a yes/no or a note, taken at first piece or at stop. A failed check marks the run, and a run cannot be stopped while a required check is outstanding. Defect reports carry the root cause and the corrective and preventive actions.
Job work and materials
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Parts at the heat treater and the plater
The pain
Parts go out for heat treatment, plating or machining. What was sent and what came back lives in challans, and the ITC-04 return is assembled by hand.
How Tathven solves it
A job order sends the work to a contractor, with material issued against it, a due-back date, and the unused material returned. The contractor’s bill clears against the job order. GST’s ITC-04 return for goods sent to job workers is built from the same records, with open challans and their return-by dates.
✨ How the agentic ERP helps
Ask “what is still with the heat treater?”
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Steel runs out, or sits for months
The pain
Bar stock and bought-out parts are bought by feel.
How Tathven solves it
Material planning explodes open orders through their bills of materials, nets them against stock and open purchases, and proposes purchase and production orders for you to confirm. Parts can be tracked by batch or by serial number.
Costs and sales
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Quoting without knowing the cost
The pain
A customer wants a price for a new part today.
How Tathven solves it
A costing order works out the cost from material, machine hours, job rates, wastage and overhead, and suggests a sale price. Once approved, it sets the part’s cost and price. The cost-drift view shows which parts have moved away from their standard, and anything left in work in progress when an order is short-closed goes to a variance account.
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OEM customers on credit
The pain
Customers buy on credit, and parts leave before anyone checks the money.
How Tathven solves it
Every buyer has its own credit days and limit, and an order is cleared for dispatch only when it is paid or within credit terms. An engineering HSN catalogue comes ready, and GST returns are built from the tax ledger.
Feature by feature
What you get
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Routings
Bills of materials, routing steps with setup and run times, drawings on routing steps, sub-assemblies.
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Machines
Work centres with machine-hour rates, calendars, operator pools, preventive maintenance.
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Scheduling
Finite-capacity board, auto-schedule, drag to reschedule.
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Shop floor
Runs, good and rejected quantities, downtime reasons, utilisation and OEE.
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Quality
In-process and first-piece checks, defect reports with CAPA.
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Job work
Contractor job orders, material issue and return, due-back dates, ITC-04.
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Planning and costing
Material planning, batch or serial tracking, costing orders, cost drift, production variance.
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Agentic ERP
An assistant that reads the schedule and prepares the next step for you to confirm.
Tathven Agentic ERP
Start with your next job.
Bring your machines, your routings and your job workers. Tathven Agentic ERP brings the rest, on the Manufacturing plan.
