One Product, Many BOMs: Modelling Discrete Bills of Material in Odoo for Precast Manufacturing
To anyone outside the factory, one hollow core slab looks much like another. Inside a precast concrete operation, that resemblance is misleading — and it is exactly where most ERP implementations come undone. We recently worked with a precast concrete manufacturer producing eight product lines: hollow core slabs, retaining walls, solid slabs, staircases, precast walls […]
From Calendar to Evidence: Using Pareto Analysis to Prioritise Equipment Maintenance under IATF 16949
Most small and mid-sized manufacturers maintain their equipment the same way they always have: on a fixed calendar. Every machine gets serviced every few weeks, whether it needs it or not. It feels disciplined. In practice, it quietly wastes effort on healthy machines while under-protecting the ones that actually decide whether the production line runs. […]