HixonOps

Manufacturing operations software

Shop floor software built around how your shop actually runs.

MES, shop floor tracking, and team competency systems that connect to the ERP and CRM you already have. Deployed in your environment. Flat license. Never priced per user.

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Your cloud, your data · No per-seat fees · AI usage at 0% markup

HixonOps Floor Overview screen for the week of Oct 16. Seven work centers with load: Saw/Cut 82%, Machining 128%, Press Brake 38%, Weld 123%, Paint 0%, Assembly 0%, Shipping 1%. $92.3k parked on the floor in unfinished work. Two material warnings and five late or at-risk orders, each showing which work center it is stuck behind.
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What we build

Three systems. Each one built to your routings, your names, your rules.

No off-the-shelf software you bend your process around. We start from how work moves through your building and build the system to match.

System 01

Manufacturing Execution System, tied to your ERP and CRM

The full floor picture. Every job, every cell, every hold, with the right people told the moment something changes. Your ERP keeps the records. This runs the floor.

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  • Routings and value streams

    Build the paths work flows through so teams work the right job at the right time.

  • Cell-level tracking

    Start, stop, and complete at each work cell. Live WIP, no walking the floor to find a job.

  • Scheduling and capacity

    See load by machine and by day before the schedule breaks, not after.

  • Machine utilization

    When one machine is overloaded, see which alternate has room and move the work.

  • Quality tracking

    Inspections, nonconformances, rework, and scrap tied to the job and the cell.

  • Holds with reasons

    Every held job carries a reason, an owner, and a message back to sales or purchasing.

  • Inventory warnings

    Know a material shortage will stop a job before it reaches the cell.

  • WIP and ops reporting

    Daily scoreboards built from the floor data itself. No one compiles a spreadsheet.

System 02

A small-shop system that grows into your own ERP

Outgrown spreadsheets and QuickBooks but not ready for a six-figure ERP? Start with the basics. Add modules as you need them. Over time you end up with an ERP built for your shop.

  • Inventory and material tracking
  • Work orders and job tracking
  • Printable travelers
  • New modules added one need at a time

We build this one alongside you. The system gets better as we learn your shop.

System 03

Competency and talent management, with TWI built in

Know who can run what, who is ready to move up, and what training closes the gap. Skills matrix, reviews, and career paths in one place.

  • Skills and competency matrix by role and cell
  • Reviews and career paths
  • TWI Job Instruction training built in
  • Cross-training gaps flagged automatically

Try the free TWI breakdown tool: film a job, get the sheet →

See it working

Two ways to see the system.

Self-guided

Walk through the live demo

Rockcreek Fabrication is a sample shop running on HixonOps. Pick a role, work the queues, hold a job, advance the day, and watch the floor react. No login. No sales call.

Open the live demo

Opens in a new tab. The shop and its numbers are demo data.

Built for you

Get a demo shaped like your process

A free call to talk through how your floor runs and what your data looks like. Then we build a demo of the tool you actually want, shaped like your routings, your names, and your rules.

Book the free call

Takes a short form. Josh replies within one business day.

Screens from the live demo

Machining board from the HixonOps demo: job RC-2436 running with its route from Saw/Cut to Shipping, a queue of nine jobs with assigned machines and start and finish times, and a Machines panel beside it.
Machining queue. Every job on the bench in order, with the running job, its estimate, and when it finishes. Complete it, hold it with a reason, or change machine from the ticket.
Machines panel: Haas VF-3 Mill at 55 percent, Haas VF-2 Mill at 98 percent, Mazak QT Lathe at 115 percent, Okuma VMC at 0 percent and free this week, Okuma Multus at 30 percent. A note reads that HT-01 is at 30 percent while HL-01 is at 115 percent, 24.6 hours of capacity you already own.
Machine capacity. Booked hours against the week for every machine. When one is overloaded and another sits idle, it says so and shows the hours you already own.
Dollars tied up: $155k sunk into work that has not shipped, with bars by work cell (Paint, Weld, Shipping, Machining, Press Brake, Assembly, Saw/Cut) and by value stream.
Dollars tied up. Where unfinished work is sitting, by cell and by value stream, against the contract value riding on it.
Order tracker table with order number, customer, type, stream, due date, projected date, variance such as 5 days late or 2 days early, current cell, progress, and value.
Order tracker. Every open order with due date, projected date, variance, and the cell it is in right now.
Live current-state map: release, then Saw/Cut, Machining, and Press Brake/Forming with operators, shift, efficiency, available hours per day, standard and actual hours per job, and triangles showing hours of waiting work between steps.
Live current-state map. Waiting work and hands-on time at every step, per product family. Pick a routing and see where the queue is.
Admin screen with work cells (crew, shift, efficiency, on/off for Saw/Cut, Machining, Press Brake/Forming, Weld, Paint, Assembly, Shipping) and four routings: Standard Product, Custom Fab, Machined Components, Heavy Weldment.
Cells and routings. Crew, shift, and efficiency per cell. Routings per product family. You edit them, not us.
Inventory outage warnings: bearing set runs out Oct 21 before RC-2434 reaches Assembly with no PO inbound; powder runs out Oct 23 before RC-2410 reaches Paint and PO-7053 lands too late. Below it, two orders waiting on vendors.
Material warnings. A part runs out before the job reaches the cell, and whether a PO lands in time.

Every screen above is live at demo.hixonops.com. Click around. Break the schedule. See what it tells you.

How it works

Built in your environment. Your IT stays in charge.

  1. 01

    We map your flow

    Your people walk us through how work really moves. We turn that into routings, stages, and rules.

  2. 02

    We build in your cloud

    Deployed to your Azure, Cloudflare, or other tenant. Connected to your ERP and CRM. Nothing ripped out.

  3. 03

    We grow it with you

    Your process changes. The license covers keeping the system in step with it.

You own your data

Data and infrastructure live in your accounts from day one. Security follows your IT policies, not ours. We own the code. If we ever stop operating, the code transfers to you.

Flat license. Never per user.

Priced by the size of the build and held there until the system changes. Add 10 operators or 100, the price stays the same.

AI at cost. 0% markup.

Add AI automation and AI logic where it pays. If the AI usage costs us $100, you pay $100. A competitive edge, without the gouge.

What can we save you

Your numbers. Your math. Per month.

Better process only matters if it shows up as lower cost or more revenue. Put in your shop's numbers and see where the money is.

Chasing orders
Late orders
Expedited freight, overtime, customer credits.
Rework

Cutting rework does two things: the labor spent redoing work comes back, and the capacity it was eating at your bottleneck goes to new output.

From the blog

Lean and ops notes, every week

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See a build for a shop like yours.

Tell us how your floor runs. We'll show a working system built around a shop like yours, with real numbers, on a short video call.

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