

Legacy manufacturing systems force your shop into rigid workflows that can't handle the realities of dynamic CNC scheduling. These bloated systems require expensive workarounds, run frustratingly slow, and keep your shop trapped in the past.

Relying on physical prints and handwritten setup sheets is a massive quality risk. When paper travelers get soaked in cutting fluid or an engineer updates a CAD file without the floor knowing, operators cut bad parts—wasting expensive alloys and hours of machine time.

Estimating run times and tooling costs based on "gut feeling" destroys margins. When your quoting, inventory, and accounting systems are siloed, you never truly know your exact job profitability until the parts are already shipped.







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A machine shop ERP solution is a platform built specifically for CNC machine shops, precision manufacturers, and contract machining operations — where tight tolerances, complex routings, rapid engineering changes, and material traceability are daily realities. Unlike generic manufacturing software, machine shop ERP solutions are designed to handle the specific workflows of a CNC environment: estimating from cycle times, tracking bar stock and billets, managing material certs, scheduling mills and lathes, and costing every setup and run time against the actual job.
Machine shop ERP solutions like KIMCO allows machinists to log exact setup times, run times, scrap, and tooling consumption directly at the CNC control via a mobile shop floor app. This real-time data feeds directly into job cost analysis — giving your estimators a precise, historical record of what every type of operation actually costs in your shop, allowing future quotes to be built on data rather than intuition.
Yes. KIMCO's machine shop ERP solution supports lot-level material traceability, allowing you to link specific material heats and certifications to individual jobs and work orders. This is critical for aerospace, defence, and medical machining customers who require full material traceability as part of their quality and compliance requirements.
Yes. KIMCO manages outside processing — including heat treatment, plating, grinding, and other subcontracted operations — as native routing steps within the job. Purchase orders are generated automatically, receipt of processed parts is tracked, and actual costs post back to the job in real time, giving you complete cost visibility even for operations performed off-site.