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Software for high-tech: small series, high demands.
High-tech manufacturers build products that aren't finished while the factory is already running. Engineering and production interleave, series are small, tolerances tight and the chain long. Standard ERP is built for repetition — exactly what's scarce here.
Discuss this sector processWorked with and for Additive Industries · Lightyear
Where it pinches in high-tech
Revisions per product
The ERP knows one part number, the floor knows ten.
Prototype beside series
Fighting over the same people and machines.
Knowledge in a few engineers
Held in heads, not in systems.
Chain partners
Each with their own portal and their own format.
Start with the process, not with more system
In environments like additive manufacturing and new vehicle development we've seen how fast a system landscape fragments when the product changes monthly. The reflex is more system; the answer is usually sharper process and lighter, fitting tools.
- Map the engineering and production process
- Choose or reconfigure the ERP
- Targeted app for what falls outside48 HOURS
Built in this sector
Knowledge bases and configuration apps are the sweet spot here: capturing the experience of your best engineers in software the rest of the organisation actually uses. Sparqbox grew out of that corner.
Questions from high-tech
Our product changes every month. Does ERP even make sense?
Yes, but a more modest ERP than you think: finance, purchasing and inventory standard, and the fast-changing engineering reality in flexible tools alongside — instead of custom ERP poured in concrete.
How do you capture knowledge without creating a dead wiki?
By putting the knowledge base inside the work process instead of next to it: linked to parts, orders or machines, with ownership per topic. A wiki dies; a tool that answers at the moment of the question doesn't.
Can you handle confidentiality and NDAs?
Of course. References on this site are deliberately kept general; details are only shared with the companies' consent.
Recognise these processes?
Tell us which process costs you most. Within one working day you'll hear what is possible and what it would take.