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Manufacturing · Software for cNC turning shops

Keep each component’s revision, setup and first-off approval on one record.

CNC turning shops cut shafts, bushes and fittings from bar on Fanuc-controlled lathes and sliding-head turning centres, in batches that return month after month. The software holds drawing revision, collet or soft jaw set, tool offsets, first-off approval and cycle time against each component, with bar heat numbers and plating vendors attached.

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At a glance

A turning shop runs the same hydraulic fittings, spindles and dowel pins again and again, and a revision letter that changes between two batches is easy to miss. The collet size, boring bar and insert nose radius that worked last time live in the setter’s head or on a scrap of paper. Neither travels with the job.

Management software for turning shops keeps the component, its revision and its proven setup together, so a repeat order starts from the approved cut instead of trial cuts. Tell us what you run.

How the work runs today

An enquiry arrives. The buyer attaches a drawing, a quantity and a grade such as EN8, EN24 or 303 stainless, and you quote from bar diameter, parting-off allowance and cycle time. Add any anodising or zinc plating. Once the order is confirmed, bar is drawn from the rack against a heat number and the job goes to a lathe.

At the machine, the setter loads the G-code program, fits collets or soft jaws, touches off the tools and cuts one piece. Quality checks it with a bore gauge, a thread ring gauge and a micrometer, and only then does the batch run. Operators note rejects and insert changes. Finished parts may leave for case hardening, then return to be packed against a delivery note and the mill certificate.

Where it breaks

What goes wrong for cNC turning shops without a proper system.

Offsets are rebuilt at every repeat

The insert list and wear offsets that worked last time sit in a notebook or in controller memory, and the setter who keyed them may be on nights. A repeat order opens with trial cuts. Blanks are scrapped.

A revision change misses the machine

The buyer issues revision C of a spindle drawing while the operator still holds a printout of revision B and cuts the circlip groove where it used to be. Nobody notices until incoming inspection at the customer. The whole lot has shipped.

Bar stock loses its heat number

Round bar of one grade is parted for several jobs from the same rack, and months later a customer asks for the mill certificate behind one lot. Nobody can say which heat fed which lot.

Quotes rest on a remembered cycle time

The figure comes from a job that looked similar, and nobody compares it with what the lathe took once chip clearing, insert indexing and gauge checks are counted in. Margin on repeat parts stays unknown.

Parts at the plating vendor go unseen

Components leave on a pickup van with a handwritten slip, and which lot sits at the plater, the hardening shop or the centreless grinder is anyone’s guess. A short lot shows on the due date.

What the software does

What we would build for cNC turning shops.

Named the way your team already talks about the work. We start with whichever part the audit shows is costing you most.

Part masters with revisions

Each part number holds its drawing, revision letter, bar grade, finished diameter and tolerance notes. A new revision goes to the floor and the older one is blocked from new jobs, so superseded prints stop circulating.

Setup sheets and offsets

Record the program number, collet or soft jaw set, boring bar, threading insert and offsets that produced an approved first-off. A repeat batch begins from a proven setup, and the setter does not guess which of three programs was the good one.

Bar stock and heat numbers

Receive bar by grade, diameter and heat number, issue cut lengths to jobs, and every mill certificate traces forward to the lots it fed. Offcuts return as stock lines.

Lathe jobs and cycle time

Release a job to a named lathe or sliding-head centre, log pieces, rejects and insert changes each shift, and see actual cycle time beside the quoted figure. The next quote starts from the floor.

Trial piece and interval checks

After the setter cuts a trial piece, the inspector reads bore, thread and overall length, naming the gauge used for each. Nothing runs until that result is signed. A failed interval check holds the lot.

Outside process tracking

Each plating, hardening or centreless grinding vendor gets a delivery note, and one list shows which lots sit where and when they are due back. Late returns show in red. Rejects are noted on return.

Packing lists and invoices

Pack against the order with lot number and mill certificate attached, then raise a tax invoice in your own currency and tax rules.

Before you talk to a supplier

A requirements checklist for cNC turning shops.

What to cover, which reports to ask for and what to put to every vendor, ready to print or save as a PDF.

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Ready product

A product already built for cNC turning shops.

It is adapted to how your business works before it goes live, and anything your trade needs that it lacks is added then.

CNC Turning Shop Management Software

Part masters, drawing revisions, bar stock heat numbers, lathe jobs, first-off inspection, outside processes and delivery notes for CNC turning shops that cut shafts, bushes and fittings.

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Solutions inside

The business modules cNC turning shops use most.

Each one is also available on its own, or inside a system built for you.

Services

The services behind it.

Business Process Automation

Approvals, reminders, follow-ups and reports that run on their own instead of on someone remembering.

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Data Migration and Moving Off Spreadsheets

Data migration and spreadsheet replacement covers auditing existing files, cleaning and deduplicating records, loading them into a new system and reconciling the loaded result against known totals. Both systems then run side by side before cutover. Originals stay untouched.

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ERP, CRM and Business Software Implementation

One record of stock, orders, customers and accounts, set up so your team opens it every day.

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How it works

How the work runs from Bengaluru for your city.

  1. 1

    The audit, by call

    A screen-share and a look at the sheets, accounting reports and WhatsApp groups your team uses. No travel needed.

  2. 2

    A written proposal

    Scope, what we build first and the cost, agreed in writing before anything starts.

  3. 3

    Build in short rounds

    Working screens shared every few weeks. Your team tests them from your own office.

  4. 4

    Go-live, in person when it helps

    For data migration and training we can come to your city. Travel is agreed in advance.

  5. 5

    Support online

    Fixes, changes and hosting handled remotely by the same team that built it.

Our work

Software we have built and run.

We only name clients whose work is published. These are systems our team designed, built and supports.

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Common questions

Questions cNC turning shops ask before they call.

Can it keep the offsets for a repeat component?

Yes. After an approved first-off, the setter records the program number, tool list and wear offsets, and the next batch of that part opens with them. G-code stays on the controller or file server.

Do we need monitoring hardware on the lathes?

No. A tablet beside the lathe is enough, and the setter or the shift lead keys in good pieces, rejects and insert changes when a bar ends. Pulling counts directly off a Fanuc controller through its network port is a different piece of work. It is scoped separately once the first workshop is done.

What happens to a job already running when the drawing changes?

The new revision is released. Open jobs carry a flag against the part number until the supervisor decides whether the batch finishes on revision B or restarts on revision C, and the machine screen shows the choice.

How is the software proposal worked out for a turning shop?

The number of lathes and sliding-head centres, the logins needed and the size of your part master list shape the proposal. You see your own spindles, bushes and dowel pins in a working demo before any figure is written, and the proposal then lists each line.

What happens after I share my requirements?

An engineer reads what you send and replies within one business day. We then look at the software, spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups your business runs on today and write down what works, what slows your team down and what is missing. A demo login, a screen-share or a few screenshots are enough. You get a short written summary ordered by priority, with no obligation to hire us afterwards.

How much will the software cost?

We don’t publish a price, because it depends on what the system has to do. That first review settles the scope, and the cost goes into a written proposal before any work starts.

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