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About Taktware

Taktware is the complete operating system for metal fabrication and machine shops. It takes a job from the first request for quote all the way to the shipped invoice in a single system: order intake and quoting, production orders with revision-controlled drawings, drag-and-drop scheduling, kiosk time clocks and QR pallet scanning, raw and processed inventory with automatic remnant tracking, quality measurement grids, and delivery and invoicing. Every module is built for the shop floor first, with a kiosk on the floor and quality gates enforced server-side, so the data is real the moment it happens.

It is built for metal fabricators and machine shops from one to ten or more machines: CNC machining, welding, sheet metal, and laser and plasma cutting. Starter covers small shops up to three machines, Professional adds unlimited machines and every feature, and Enterprise is a flat rate for unlimited sites and users. One flat price covers the whole shop, operators and kiosk devices never count as seats, and there are no implementation fees. A 14-day free trial needs no credit card, and you can cancel anytime.

Taktware is built and operated by an independent software company based in Norway, focused on fabrication shops. We ship fast, support every plan by email, and add priority support with an SLA on Enterprise. We do not lock you in: you own your data and can export orders, customers, inventory, and production data at any time.

Jens Kristian Nysæter, founder of Taktware
The founder

I am Jens, and I built Taktware from inside a real machine shop workflow. Every module started as a problem I hit on the floor. Taktware is the system I wanted and could not find: built for the floor first, one flat price for the whole shop, running by the end of the afternoon.

Jens Kristian Nysæter, Founder

Straight answers

Shop floor, production orders and material, answered plainly

How do I streamline CNC shop floor operations?

You streamline a CNC shop floor by removing the transcription between the machine and the office: let the operator record the work where it happens, and let everything downstream read that same record. Taktware does it in five moves, and a shop can have all five running by the end of the afternoon.

  • Put a kiosk at the work center. Operators clock in on a job by employee number, so setup and run time are captured with no app account and no per-user fee.
  • Print a QR pallet label per order. Scanning it on the floor opens the job and records completed parts, scrap and processed blanks at the moment they happen.
  • Build the operation list once per part: setup time, run time per part, machine, fixture and inputs. The schedule then sizes itself from real numbers.
  • Schedule on the board rather than in a spreadsheet. Drag jobs between work centers, mark lights-out jobs unmanned so they run through the night, and read last week's plan against actual on Monday.
  • Gate the end of the job. A measurement grid per dimension plus an inspection disposition is enforced server-side before the order can complete or ship.
  • Setup takes an afternoon, there are no implementation fees, and the price is flat per shop from $149/month with a 14-day free trial and no credit card.

What is production order management software for CNC manufacturing?

Production order management software for CNC manufacturing holds one record per customer order and drives it from drawing to shipped part: which revision of drawing and NC program to run, which operations and machines, what material was issued, who clocked what time, and which inspection released it. Taktware is built exactly that way.

  • Each production order carries the part number, ordered quantity and drawing revision, and links to the current drawing revision with its files (PDF drawing plus STEP or IGES models) so the floor always opens the live revision.
  • NC programs are filed per part, machine and revision. A newer revision supersedes the old one, and the operation is flagged to acknowledge the current program.
  • Operations carry operation number, machine, fixture, setup time and run time per part, and each operation issues its own stock input from raw material, processed blanks or finished parts.
  • A kiosk clock-in per operation writes actual time, parts completed and scrap. A scanned pallet label reports progress from anywhere on the floor.
  • Quantity to produce is the ordered quantity minus finished parts applied from stock, so an order can ship partly from the shelf and partly from the machines.
  • Assembly orders carry a component list and can spawn one child order per component, with quantity per unit and scrap allowance.
  • From $149 to $649 per month depending on plan and work centers, one flat price for the whole shop, 14-day free trial without a credit card. Contact sales@taktware.com.

How do I manage CNC workflows and machine shop inventory in one place?

You manage both in Taktware because the stock moves with the job: every operation declares the material or blank it consumes, so issuing stock, cutting blanks, salvaging offcuts and buffering finished parts all post against the same production order that carries the work.

  • Raw stock: dimensioned bars, plate, tube and blocks with grade, unit and storage location, linked to the parts cut from them so open demand can be read per material.
  • Processed stock: a cut-to-length operation registers the blanks it produced as a new lot, and a saw session that cut nothing can record zero output without breaking the trail.
  • Remnants: a usable offcut is recorded back into raw stock as its own record, and every consumed quantity is written to a movement ledger with a direction and a reference.
  • Finished goods: surplus parts buffer in finished goods stock and can be applied to a later order of the same part, reducing the quantity that has to be produced.
  • Purchasing: low-stock items raise purchase orders, and supplier quotes are compared line by line before awarding.
  • All of it on one plan from $149/month, with unlimited users and kiosk devices, and a 14-day free trial without a credit card.

Questions? Get in touch.