Custom Software for Manufacturing

Most Australian manufacturers know exactly what happened on the floor — last Tuesday. Production status lives in a supervisor's head, downtime gets reconstructed from memory at the end of the shift, and quality records sit in binders next to the line. Meanwhile the ERP says one stock figure and the storeroom says another, so purchasing either over-orders to be safe or the line stops waiting on a part. The gap between what's actually happening and what the front office can see is where margin quietly disappears.

Custom software closes that gap without the cost and disruption of replacing your ERP. Systems like SAP, Pronto, Epicor, and MYOB are usually doing their core job fine — what's missing is the layer between them and the floor. We build production dashboards that pull live data from PLCs and equipment (Siemens, Allen-Bradley, and others) so OEE, downtime, and schedule position are visible in real time, not in next week's report. Digital inspection checklists replace the binders, with non-conformances logged at the point they're found and CAPA workflows that actually get followed because the system chases them.

Inventory is usually the second project. Barcode or RFID tracking at receipt, issue, and despatch keeps the system count honest, and reorder automation works from real consumption instead of gut feel. Because everything writes back to your ERP rather than living in a parallel spreadsheet, finance and the floor finally agree on the numbers. For manufacturers supplying regulated or audited customers, the same data gives you traceability — which batch, which operator, which inspection — answerable in minutes instead of a day of digging.

IntraCode is a Brisbane-based development team working with manufacturers across Australia. We start with a discovery phase on your floor — mapping how product, paperwork, and data actually move — then quote fixed-price so the investment is known up front. We ship in stages so the first dashboard or checklist is live in weeks, and you own all the code and IP at the end.