Requirements checklist
What to ask for when choosing software for pneumatic component manufacturers.
A checklist built from how pneumatic component manufacturers work, to print or save as a PDF and bring to any supplier meeting.
What the software should cover
Tick each one that matters to your business.
- Configured cylinder orders
- Drawing and revision control
- Seal kits and bills of materials
- Test bench records
- Tube and rod stock
- Packing and dispatch
Roles that need their own access
Who logs in, and what each person may see or change.
- For sales and order desk
- For production planners
- For machinists
- For assemblers and test bench staff
- For quality and engineering
Reports to ask for
Ask to see each one with your own sample data.
- Open cylinder orders by series and promised date
- Pressure decay failures by bench and bore
- Honing batches running late against release date
- Seal kit stock against open assembly orders by compound
- Tube and rod stock by size and mill lot
- Returned units by serial number and cause
Systems it may need to connect to
Note which ones you already run.
- Barcode and label printing
- Accounting export
- Test bench data import
- Courier booking
Questions for any vendor
Put these to every supplier you are comparing.
- Can it handle many option codes on one cylinder?
- Does each serial number show its test result?
- How are seal kits chosen for an order?
- Can machining go to an outside plater?
- Can the bench machine feed readings in directly?
- What happens to a drawing revision?
- Can distributors see their orders?
- Who keeps the data if we leave?
- How is cost for a pneumatic plant worked out?
Where the work usually breaks today
Circle the ones you recognise. They set the order of the project.
- Configurations are copied by hand
- Seal kits are matched to the wrong build
- Leak readings stay on paper at the stand
- Stock of honed tube is guessed
- Drawing revisions reach the floor late
Prefer to talk it through? See the pneumatic component manufacturers page.