Industrial operations software, built to your shop.
Manufacturers, fabricators, equipment shops and field service organizations use Genwright to build the work order, quality and maintenance systems that packaged CMMS and ERP modules never quite fit — in weeks, on a governed platform.
The whiteboard is the system of record, and everyone knows it
The ERP holds the order. The CMMS holds the asset. A spreadsheet holds the schedule. And the whiteboard by the door holds what is actually happening today, because it is the only one the floor trusts and the only one that updates in real time.
That is not a discipline problem. It is what happens when the systems on offer were shaped around a plant with different constraints — a different job structure, a different quality gate, a different definition of when a job is done. The parts a packaged product treats as configuration are usually the parts that carry your margin.
So the shop keeps two records: the official one, and the real one. The official one is what gets reported. The real one is what gets worked.
Common first builds in industrial operations
Built against your job codes, your work centers, your hold reasons and your sign-off chain.
Work orders & job tracking
Job intake, routing through work centers, labor and material capture on the floor, and a status that reflects the job rather than the last time someone remembered to update it.
Quality holds & non-conformance
NCR raising with photos and measurements, disposition and approval routing, corrective action tracking, and a hold that actually prevents the next operation rather than advising against it.
Assets, spares & preventive maintenance
Equipment registers, PM scheduled on runtime or calendar, breakdown reporting from the floor, spares consumption, and escalation when a job goes overdue.
Field service
Dispatch to technicians, offline-tolerant job capture at the customer site, parts used, photos, signature, and a billing-ready record that does not need re-keying on Monday.
Safety & permitting
E-permitting, lockout/tagout, confined space, mustering, inspections and incident records, with corrective actions tracked to closure and OSHA recordkeeping behind them.
Workforce & contractors
Applicant tracking through onboarding, background checks, credential and certification expiry, scheduling and time and attendance — one spine rather than five tools.
Three shop realities Genwright is built around
The floor will not type a paragraph
Capture has to be four taps and a photo, on a shared tablet, with gloves on. If entering the record takes longer than doing the work, the record does not get entered.
A hold has to actually hold
Quality gates enforced by the platform, not by convention. If the next work center can start a held job because the screen did not stop them, the gate was decorative.
The traceability question comes later
Which operator, which machine, which lot, which torque value, on which shift. Attribution is captured at the platform layer on every record, because nobody knows in advance which job will be the one in dispute.
You are not starting from a blank canvas
Modules already running in production on the Knomatic platform, shaped to your operation rather than configured around.
Work & maintenance
The job and the machine.
- Work orders & job tracking
- Preventive maintenance scheduling
- Breakdown & defect reporting
- Asset registers
- Inventory & spares
- Dispatch & work assignment
Quality
Holds that hold.
- Non-conformance reports
- Disposition & approval routing
- Corrective action tracking
- Inspection records
- Traceability & attribution
Safety & environmental
Before anyone touches anything.
- E-permitting
- Lockout / tagout
- Mustering
- Incident records
- OSHA recordkeeping
Workforce
Application through timecard.
- Applicant tracking
- Onboarding & documents
- Integrated background checks
- Credential & certification tracking
- Scheduling
- Time & attendance
- Contractor management
Commercial & oversight
Turning work into invoices and evidence.
- Customer portals
- Contract management
- Invoicing
- Vendor settlement
- Dashboards & analytics
- Enforced audit trail
- Integration to existing systems
Industrial questions we are asked most
Can Genwright replace our CMMS?
Yes, for operations whose maintenance workflow does not fit a packaged CMMS. Genwright builds equipment registers, PM scheduling on runtime or calendar interval, breakdown reporting, spares consumption and overdue escalation, configured to your own asset hierarchy and job codes rather than a vendor's template.
Does Genwright replace our ERP?
No, and it should not try. Most manufacturers keep the ERP for orders, inventory valuation and financials, and use Genwright for the shop-floor and quality layer around it. Applications read from and write to the ERP over documented interfaces, which is agreed during scoping because integration usually sets the timeline.
Will it work on a shared tablet on the floor?
Yes. Field surfaces are built for shared devices, gloved hands and poor light: short forms, large targets, photo and signature attachment, and offline tolerance so a record made in a dead zone still carries its original timestamp and author.
Can we enforce a quality hold rather than just flag it?
Yes. Constraints are enforced by the platform rather than by application code, so a held job cannot advance to the next operation. That is the difference between a gate and a warning, and it is why holds are a platform behaviour rather than a screen.
How long does a first build take?
A scoped pilot covering two to three workflows typically runs four weeks from kickoff to a production pre-flight review. Because the work order, quality and maintenance modules already exist, most of that time goes into fitting them to your work centers and sign-off chain.
Bring a photo of the whiteboard.
Whatever the floor keeps outside the official system is the most useful thing you can show us. A scoping call is forty-five minutes on one workflow.