Custom ERP for job shops, fabricators & manufacturers
A reusable manufacturing foundation, extended around how your shop works. Source access and continuing rights are defined in your agreement.
Dallas–Fort Worth · Oklahoma City
Ownstead Core · reusable manufacturing foundation
Ownstead Core verifies selected inventory, purchasing, receiving, production and fulfillment flows in synthetic manufacturing scenarios. The broader product tour also shows workflows from an existing ERP implementation; not every feature is in Core today. We confirm what is verified, being ported or client-specific before quoting.
Selected inventory, purchasing, work-order and fulfillment workflows, validated with invented company data.
CRM, drawing-led quality, workforce scheduling and integrations require individual porting or client-specific scope.
Scope, delivery milestones, deployment responsibilities and acceptance criteria are agreed in writing.
Workflows in an existing ERP implementation
Build inspection plans right on the customer’s drawing: place numbered balloons, set tolerances with a built-in calculator, assign gauges and defect classes. Set AQL sampling by lot size. Inspectors run it on a tablet, sign in with their own PIN, record readings and sign off. Out-of-tolerance readings fail as they’re entered. Open NCRs and CAPAs from the same screen.
The production scheduler works from the real shop: each workstation’s capacity, each person’s certifications and training, PTO and sick days, job priority and due dates. If your only certified welder is out, it re-plans and recommends who is qualified instead.
Skills and certifications aren’t in a separate spreadsheet. They decide who can be assigned to what, and expiring certs get flagged before they cause a problem.
Ask in plain English (“which POs are late?”, “what’s our on-hand for 6061 bar?”). It reads purchase orders and flags unusual invoices or payments (watchdog).
Rolling tablet stations put the ERP where the work happens. Operators sign in with their name and PIN to clock in, start and finish jobs and record inspections; managers walk the floor with live status on a tablet or phone. Shared stations instead of a desk PC for every operator keep it affordable.
AI can help prepare a first-pass field map. Your team reviews each mapping, then representative records and transactions are reconciled before a switch. The data scope, parallel-run plan and acceptance checks are agreed for each project.
Capability status
Some workflows shown on this site run in an existing ERP implementation. Ownstead Core is a separate reusable foundation, validated in synthetic scenarios; it is not a complete ERP or a production-ready deployment.
Verified in Ownstead Core demo
Versioned operating profiles; selected make-to-order, make-to-stock and hybrid flows; inventory with FIFO history; purchase orders and partial receiving with inspection decisions; work-order material reservations and output; and order fulfillment. Tested with synthetic company data.
Present in an existing ERP implementation
CRM and quoting; drawing-led inspection plans, AQL sampling and corrective actions; skill and PTO scheduling; copilot and invoice-watchdog features; supplier-quote comparison; and AI-assisted migration planning. Their scope varies, and they are not all ported and verified in Core.
Porting, depth or project-specific qualification
Finite-capacity scheduling, labor/MES capture, quality quarantine and process locks, live accounting or carrier connections, actual data migration and cutover, AI-provider setup, identity, production hosting, recovery and client acceptance require further verification and written scope.
A feature shown in an existing implementation is not automatically included in Core or in a new project. We identify the working baseline, remaining port and client-specific work before quoting.
Built around your process
Every shop has a workflow that does not fit a standard package: a quality step across stations, a shift pattern built around one specialist, or a customer-specific inspection record. We map it with the people who do the work, then agree what can be configured, ported or built for your project.
We map inspection steps, first-article rules, customer-specific plans and any required PPAP package, then confirm which parts are already verified and which need project work.
We map how you cover shifts, specialists and constraints. Scheduling depth and qualification rules are scoped against the current verified implementation.
The public product tour is made from screenshots with synthetic data. A live workflow demonstration is arranged only for features that are ready to show.
Example workflows from an existing ERP implementation
1 · Drawing to inspection
2 · A certified welder calls out sick
3 · Supplier award
Existing ERP screenshots
These screenshots show an existing Ownstead ERP implementation, not the complete set of features verified in Ownstead Core. The interactive tour is not a live public application.
Sales & CRM
Quality
Customers
Production
Shown with sample data
Start with your workflow
Tap a workflow to add it to your request. This is a discovery prompt, not a list of modules guaranteed to be available today. Review current capability status.
Ownership and hosting
| We host it | You host it | |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting, backups, updates | Responsibilities and readiness are specified in the hosting scope | Deployment and operating requirements are agreed before handoff |
| Support | Optional, with scope and price in writing | Optional support or upgrade work can be scoped |
| What you get | The deliverables, access and operating terms listed in your agreement | Source access, documentation and deployment or recovery materials as listed in your agreement |
| Cost after build | Recurring fees depend on the agreed service scope | Infrastructure, support and third-party service costs depend on what you choose |
Source access and operating rights. Your client agreement defines the rights to use, host, maintain and modify the delivered system. It also distinguishes reusable Ownstead technology, customer-specific work and third-party components.
Connected services, including AI providers, accounting or shipping systems, may require separate accounts and integration work. What is included is listed in the agreed project scope.
Security and your data
The reusable Core demo has tenant-scoped roles and audit history. Production identity, hosting, backups and recovery must be configured and verified for each deployment before go-live.
Who you’ll work with
Reach us directly at hello@ownsteadsystems.com
How it works
We learn how your business runs and what you want the system to do. No charge, no obligation.
After discovery, you receive the agreed scope, price, milestones and any ongoing service costs before work starts.
Where migration is in scope, we rehearse representative workflows and compare agreed records before cutover.
Source access, operating rights, documentation and support follow the terms in your agreement.
Buyer questions
Start with the work your team needs to do, then ask vendors to show evidence in a realistic scenario.
There is no best system for every shop. Compare how each option handles your mix of make-to-order, make-to-stock or mixed work; quoting; material availability; shop-floor execution; quality records; reporting; and support. Ask each vendor to show what is available today, what needs configuration, what needs custom work and what is still planned. Ownstead starts with a fit assessment to see whether a tailored system makes sense for your operation.
Bring a normal order, a material shortage, a priority change, an inspection failure and a shipment. Ask the vendor to follow each from the source record through the shop and into its final status. Also ask what is live product, configured behavior, custom development or roadmap. A real screen tour and a live application are different things; confirm which one you are seeing.
Map the workflows and data you rely on, assign owners to approve field mappings, rehearse representative transactions, run old and new systems side by side where the project scope permits, reconcile important records and get team sign-off before switching. The migration scope and duration depend on your systems and data. Read our ERP migration checklist.
No. Ownstead Core is a reusable foundation verified with synthetic manufacturing scenarios; it is not a complete ERP or a qualified production deployment. Some workflows shown on this site are from an existing ERP implementation and have not all been ported and verified in Core. Availability, migration, hosting and acceptance requirements are confirmed in the written project scope.
No. The public tour uses screenshots and synthetic sample data; it is not a live public application. A live demonstration can be requested during a consultation for workflows ready to show.
The client agreement defines source-code access and continuing rights to use, host, maintain and modify the delivered system. Reusable Ownstead technology, customer-specific work and third-party components are identified separately.
Insights
Book a free consultation and fit assessment. We will learn what you need, tell you honestly whether we fit, and give you a fixed quote for the build, plus the monthly cost of hosting and support if you want us to run it.
We work best with manufacturers and distributors that have outgrown spreadsheets or an older ERP and want workflows fitted to how they work. Team size, fit and timeline are assessed together.
Interactive product tour
This is a screenshot tour, not the live application: real screens from the Ownstead ERP with a made-up manufacturer’s data. Follow the guided steps, or tap the highlighted areas (“Show what is clickable” lights them up) and the shortcuts below to move between screens.
Want to see it running? We demonstrate the live system in your free consultation. Request a live demo
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Screenshots of real Ownstead screens with sample data from a made-up company. Your system would be fitted to how your business works.
Our work
From our own business to client implementations, we build around the rules, handoffs and priorities the people doing the work rely on.
Ownstead resale operation
Dallas · multi-platform
Internal case · not an outside manufacturing customer
HavenHub is Ownstead’s custom system for Sneaker Haven’s resale inventory. The project addressed our own rules for consignment, inventory transfers and cost reconciliation across multiple selling channels. It is an example from our business, not a manufacturing customer deployment.
What carries over: we start from the rules people actually use and make them explicit in the system. Manufacturing workflows are different and are assessed on their own merits.
Client-specific ERP
Go-live in final stages
Anonymized client implementation
We partnered with the team on its move from a long-running enterprise ERP platform, building workflows tailored to its estimating and shop-floor operations. The implementation is in its final stages ahead of go-live.
Project-specific scope: This anonymized case describes work for one client. Feature availability and acceptance are confirmed per project; it does not imply that every workflow is included in Ownstead Core.
Free consultation & fit assessment
About five minutes. The consultation and assessment are free; every system is priced after it, for what you actually need. The more you tell us, the more useful that first conversation will be. Prefer email? Write to hello@ownsteadsystems.com.
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