Manufacturing Software for Product Manufacturers

If you’re relying on spreadsheets, whiteboards, or a system that can’t keep up with your shopfloor, you’re not alone — and it’s fixable.

Flowlens is the operations system for SME manufacturers who make and sell their own products — giving you shopfloor control, traceability, and numbers you can trust, without the cost of a platform built for someone else’s business.

Job-level shopfloor control, batch & serial traceability, and accurate job costing — built for manufacturers scaling past spreadsheets and outgrowing basic systems.

“Costing down to the penny”

“We now know exactly what the machine costs, right down to the penny in every fitting and every minute spent on a job and on a step.”

Paul Atherton
General Manager – Cap Coder

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Built For Manufacturers Who Build to Order

Flowlens works best for companies who:

Design, make, and sell their own product line — even with configuration or options per order.

Outgrown spreadsheets or a basic system.

Need consistent, traceable processes — particularly if you’re ISO 9001 certified or working towards it

Assemble from bills of materials with sub-assemblies, not one-off custom fabrication from a blank drawing. (Although you may fabricate or sub-contract such parts).

Control Your Build to Order Manufacturing Process

Flowlens is an affordable, easy to learn and easy to use Shopfloor Execution and MRP software system for manufacturers who make their own products, often upon receipt of an order.

Whether you make in lower volumes, or stock and make ahead, you can cut the manual steps and chaos that is stopping your growth.

Workflows, Not Just Job Cards

Break every build into steps — each assigned to the right people or machines, with its own work instructions, documents, and materials. Sub-assemblies with their own bills of materials are handled automatically, whether you want them tracked together or separately.

Real-Time Shopfloor Visibility

See exactly what's in progress, what's overdue, and what's done — by job or by resource — without chasing anyone for an update. That includes sub-assemblies that can be produced for stock, or for each order.

Traceability, Automatically

Every batch, and serial number is tracked from goods-in to finished product, with a complete audit trail — exactly what you need for ISO 9001 and customer quality requirements.

Costs That Reflect Reality

FIFO and average costing, with actual labour and material costs rolling up from every job step — not a standard cost estimate from months ago.

Sell More, Convert More

Sales Pipeline and Task and collaboration tools ensure effective follow-ups and deal tracking for your build to order offerings.

Control Cash, Manage Suppliers

Chase payments, monitor spend and purchase efficiently. Tracking supplier on-time performance.

Purchasing Driven by Real Demand

Generate purchase orders directly from confirmed jobs, or replenish to stock — so shortages get caught before they hit the shopfloor.

Collaborate and Share Information

Flowlens Tasks, Custom Forms, Uploads enable clear and consistent communications.

Trusted by fast growing manufacturers

Stay On Top of Every Bill of Materials

Accurate BOMs are the foundation of reliable assemble/build-to-order manufacturing. Flowlens keeps raw materials, parts, assemblies and sub-assemblies organised and current — including revision control and full change history — so errors and shortages stop being a surprise.

Assemble to Order Software Features

Cut the time and errors associated with spreadsheets and manual processes

Parts

Manage parts, stock levels, warning levels, approved suppliers, and upload drawings and specs.

Bill of Materials

Create and maintain components / raw materials lists and quantities.

Fast Updates

Import and updates in bulk, and import data from your CAD software.

Track Revisions & History

Control the product revision and updates, with Activity Log visibility of changes.

Issue Serial Numbers

Track finished goods in production, dispatch and ongoing service job history.

Your Dashboard

Tailor your dashboard for instant reports in the office and on the move.

Traceability That Holds Up to an Audit

Full audit trail of every batch — goods in, consumed on a job, or shipped — with visibility into exactly which jobs used which batches.

Serial Number Management – Automatic or manual serial numbers for your own products and sub-assemblies, with the ability to link bought-in serialised components (and their manufacturer’s serial numbers) all the way through to finished goods.

Built for ISO 9001+ – Consistent processes and full traceability across sales, purchasing, production and stock — the foundation ISO 9001 manufacturers need, without extra admin overhead.

Works with Xero, QuickBooks and Sage 50

Flowlens integrates with your existing accounts software, linking with Xero, Sage 50 or QuickBooks.

Issue invoices faster, improve cashflow
Eliminate data keying errors and save time
Monitor cash flow with real-time dashboard widgets

plus Flowlens supports Pro-forma and Commercial Invoicing.

Dedicated Onboarding

At Flowlens, we’re here to help you get results through your digital transformation. We provide expert help in:

Process mapping and team alignment.
Change management planning.
Training and Coaching for your team.
Data cleansing and migration.
Business Intelligence reviews.

Read more about our digital transformation services.

Unlock Your Growth Potential!

Ready to Stop Outgrowing Your Systems?

Flowlens is built specifically for manufacturers making their own product range — so you get the shopfloor control and traceability you need now, and room to grow into service, quality management, and more.

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