Can you connect our machines or production line to the ERP?

Usually, yes. Machine counts can come from the controller (OPC UA, Modbus or a PLC export), from a scanner at a gate, or from a simple tablet at the line. We pick the most reliable source per machine and land the count in your ERP as it happens.

Do we have to replace our ERP to get live production data?

No. Most plants keep the ERP they bought for finance and connect the floor to it. If the ERP genuinely cannot hold what you need, we will say so and explain why before anything is built.

Can you work with an ERP that has been heavily customised?

Yes. Customised ERPs are the norm, not the exception. We map what your version actually does, test against your real data, and keep the integration layer separate so ERP upgrades do not break it.

INDUSTRY · MANUFACTURING

Software and ERP integration for manufacturers.

Seamwire builds custom software and ERP integrations for 50–500-person manufacturers: machine and line counts into the ERP as they happen, work orders that move on their own, and one live production board. A 50-to-500-person plant with one or two lines and an ERP that was bought for finance. The signal: the production count still reaches the office on a clipboard, or in a spreadsheet someone fills in after the shift.

Start with a 10-day first step See the work

An illustration of the work, not a client site. Typical first step: Connect one line's output to your stock figures, so what you promise matches what you can make.

WHERE THE DAY GOES WRONG IN MANUFACTURING

01
Sales promises a delivery date from stock figures that are a day old, and the floor finds out when the order is already late.
02
A machine stops for forty minutes and nobody outside the hall knows until the shift report, so the next job is planned as if it ran.
03
The same work order is typed into the ERP, the planning board and the quality sheet. Three versions, one of them wrong.

WHAT WE USUALLY BUILD

01Line and machine counts landing in the ERP as they happen, with no clipboard in between
02Work orders that move from sales to the floor to dispatch on their own, with a person approving the exceptions
03One production board the whole plant reads from, live, on the wall and on a phone

THE FIRST STEP

Connect one line's output to your stock figures, so what you promise matches what you can make.

WHAT WE MEASURE FROM DAY ONE

— Hours between a part being made and the ERP knowing about it
— Orders promised on stock that did not exist

SYSTEMS WE COMMONLY CONNECT

SAP Business One
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Odoo
Tally
Epicor
Infor
MES and machine data (OPC UA, PLC exports)
Excel planning boards

Systems, not clients. We keep what you run and connect it; replacing a system is the last resort, and we say why before anything is built.

SERVICES FOR THIS INDUSTRY

01Custom software & internal toolsInternal tools, dashboards and workflow apps that replace spreadsheets, built new or rescued and improved.02Systems integrationERP, CRM, warehouse and accounting systems connected, so data is entered once and nobody re-keys it.

QUESTIONS FROM MANUFACTURING TEAMS

Can you connect our machines or production line to the ERP?: Usually, yes. Machine counts can come from the controller (OPC UA, Modbus or a PLC export), from a scanner at a gate, or from a simple tablet at the line. We pick the most reliable source per machine and land the count in your ERP as it happens.
Do we have to replace our ERP to get live production data?: No. Most plants keep the ERP they bought for finance and connect the floor to it. If the ERP genuinely cannot hold what you need, we will say so and explain why before anything is built.
Can you work with an ERP that has been heavily customised?: Yes. Customised ERPs are the norm, not the exception. We map what your version actually does, test against your real data, and keep the integration layer separate so ERP upgrades do not break it.

GUIDES

01How to replace spreadsheets with custom software (without stopping the business)HOW TO · 6 MINWhen a spreadsheet has become a critical system, how to replace it with a custom tool safely: what to copy first, how to run both side by side, and how to move the data without losing anything.02ERP integration for manufacturers: what it involves and where to startEXPLAINER · 7 MINA plain guide to ERP integration for 50–500-person manufacturers: which flows to connect first, how machine and shop-floor data reaches the ERP, common systems (SAP Business One, Dynamics, Odoo, Tally), and the pitfalls.03Build or buy: when a custom internal tool beats off-the-shelf softwareDECISION · 5 MINA practical way to decide between buying software and building a custom internal tool: the questions to ask, the hidden costs on both sides, and when a hybrid (buy, then connect) is the best answer.

YOUR FIRST STEP

Connect one line's output to your stock figures, so what you promise matches what you can make.

Ten working days, one process, shown working. You leave with a business case and a dated plan, and keep everything it produced.

Start the first step