Move off spreadsheets and paper
The spreadsheet works. Until the person who built it is on vacation.
Excel and paper travelers get a shop surprisingly far. The trouble starts when the schedule lives in one person's head, the job packet goes missing, and nobody can tell a customer where their order is.
Why shops finally move off spreadsheets
You don't have to rebuild everything at once. We bring your part numbers, BOMs, and routings in with AI-assisted import, and you're running in weeks.
One person understands the spreadsheet
It works because they built it. When they're out, quoting slows down and nobody wants to touch the formulas.
The system holds what people know
Routings, standard times, and costs live in the system, so a second person can quote a job without reverse-engineering anyone's workbook.
The schedule is a whiteboard
It's accurate the moment it's written and drifting an hour later. Reprioritizing means erasing and hoping the floor noticed.
Jobs, routing, and scheduling
Sequence jobs against machines and people, and let changes ripple through instead of being rewritten.
“Where's my order?” takes a walk to the floor
Answering a customer means finding the traveler, finding the operator, and adding it up by hand.
Live status, quote to shipment
See where every job is without leaving your desk, because the floor reports as it works rather than at the end of the week.
Traceability is a binder
When a customer asks which heat of material went into a shipment, the answer is an afternoon in the filing cabinet.
Traceability that's a lookup
Lots and serials captured automatically on receipt and consumed on the job, so the answer takes seconds instead of an afternoon.
My experience with StartProto has been fantastic. It feels like it was designed from the manufacturing floor up and then expanded into ERP capabilities, which is different from anything else out there. Their training support has also been great—they’re available off-hours, which works well with my busy schedule. That level of support makes StartProto stand out.
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Warren Wadman
Operations
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