How is this different from SAP ME, Tulip, or other MES platforms?

With an off-the-shelf MES you configure a generic platform; we build the system for your process. That means no license fees, no forcing your routing into a vendor's data model, and no paying for modules you'll never use. You own the source code.

Can it handle external vendor steps?

Yes. We've built MES systems where parts are dispatched to external vendors mid-route and received back, with the handoff, status, and paperwork tracked in the same flow as in-house steps.

Does a custom MES work for small manufacturers?

That's who it works best for. A focused system covering your actual line ships in weeks and costs a fraction of an enterprise MES rollout, and it grows module by module as you do.

Can it include ERP features like sales orders and invoicing?

Yes. For one solar manufacturer we run sales orders, manufacturing, development, testing, and inventory in one system: MES and ERP as one platform instead of two integrated products.

Solutions · Manufacturing

A custom MES built around your production line

Generic MES platforms assume a generic factory. Yours has its own routing, its own testing rigs, and its own way a serial number moves from raw material to shipped unit. We build manufacturing execution systems around the line you run, proven with solar and green-hydrogen manufacturers.

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01Pain points

The problems this solves

Production truth lives on paper and whiteboards

Travelers, printouts, and whiteboard columns mean the real state of the floor exists only in people's heads, and vanishes at shift change.

Big-vendor MES wants your factory to change

The heavyweight platforms cost six figures, take a year to configure, and still ask you to bend your routing to their model.

No genealogy means no answers

When a unit fails in the field, tracing which batch, which operator, and which step takes days of digging through spreadsheets, if the data exists at all.

Scheduling by gut feel

Without live WIP data, nobody knows which order should hit which station when. Hot orders jump the queue silently.

02What we build

What your system includes

Every build is shaped to your workflow. These are the modules this kind of system usually carries. Yours gets the ones it needs.

Routing & process steps

Your actual manufacturing route, including in-house and external-vendor steps, with per-step material consumption and build guides.

Per-serial tracking & genealogy

Every serialized unit traced through every step, with full material genealogy from BOM to shipped product.

Operator stations & NCR

Shop-floor screens for operators: what to build, how, and where to log time and non-conformances.

Test & resource scheduling

Reliability chambers, test stands, and bottleneck stations scheduled against live work-in-progress.

Inventory & purchasing

Raw material, WIP, and finished goods synced with the same system that runs the line.

Live production analytics

Throughput, yield, and status across the whole operation, visible the moment it happens.

03Proof

Shipped for real teams

These systems run real operations today. Click through for the full story.

Solar Manufacturing · End-to-End MES + ERP

Run a whole solar factory in one system

app.t3manufacturing.io/sales

Orders

New

Quoting

Confirmed

In production

Delivered

Order	Account	Panels	Stage	Ship by	Owner
ORD-3391	Northwind Power	240	In production	Aug 12	R. Sato
ORD-3388	Cascade Grid	96	Confirmed	Aug 20	R. Sato
ORD-3385	Vela Energy	480	Quoting	—	M. Diaz
ORD-3380	Aria Solar	60	Delivered	Jul 30	M. Diaz
ORD-3377	Halcyon Utilities	300	New	—	R. Sato

A custom platform that unifies sales orders, manufacturing and development orders, bills of materials and genealogy, per-serial operator tracking with NCR and time, inventory, and reliability-chamber scheduling. One place to build solar panels and the parts that go into them.

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Advanced Manufacturing · Production Management (MES)

Run manufacturing & testing in one system

app.spacehydrogen.io/work-orders

Work Orders

Search…+ New work order

Active batches

Parts in flight

1,204

Due this week

AllIn progressBlockedComplete

Order	Batch	Stage	Parts	Due	Status
WO-2041	Stack assembly run	Assembly	24	Jun 18	In progress
WO-2038	Membrane coating	Coating	60	Jun 12	In progress
WO-2035	Bipolar plate run	Machining	18	Jun 09	Blocked
WO-2030	Cell sealing	Sealing	42	Jun 05	In progress
WO-2026	Endplate batch	QA	12	Jun 02	Complete
WO-2019	Gasket set	Cutting	88	May 28	In progress

A single system that tracks every serialized part through a manufacturing route of in-house and external-vendor steps, then through physical testing on dedicated stands, with live status, scheduling, and analytics across the whole operation.

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04FAQ

Questions,
answered

A manufacturing execution system built specifically for your production process: your routing, your stations, your quality steps. It tracks work orders and serialized units through the line in real time, instead of approximating your factory with a generic template.

05Replacing a tool

See how we compare

Odoo alternative

Odoo's pitch is strong: one suite, every module, open source. Then you configure it, hire a partner to customize it, and somewhere around the third studio automation you realize you're building custom software anyway, inside someone else's framework. The same story plays out with ERPNext. There's a more direct route.

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Excel & Google Sheets alternative

Sheet1.xlsx built your company. Spreadsheets are the most successful business software ever made, and reaching for one is always right on day one. But somewhere between the first VLOOKUP and the fifth 'FINAL_v3_ACTUAL' filename, the spreadsheet stopped being a tool and became the system of record for a real business. That's the part we fix.