Software for Australian shops · Machine shop software · CNC · Australia
Milling, turning, EDM and grinding shops make the same parts again and again for the same customers. NE Vault keeps every part at the revision you made it, so the reorder quotes itself, the work order carries the routing, and the machine time is tracked from a phone scan — not a whiteboard.
CRM and the customer portal are free. Stock and production are $39 a month each, AUD ex GST.
The reality
Every item carries its revisions, drawings and 3D models. A reorder quotes the current revision; a customer's revision request comes in through the portal with the file attached.
Routings hold the operations per machine with setup and run times; the cost rolls up into the quote so the 1-off and the 50-off are priced from the same facts.
The schedule shows each machine's capacity and the jobs against it. Move a job and the board on the floor changes with it.
Scan the job card on a phone to start and finish; time lands on the work order and the costing.
Material is allocated when the work order is raised and the schedule warns when stock is short, before the job starts.
Heat numbers, lots and serials follow the stock through the job; certificates and inspection records attach to the receipt and the order.
How a job goes through it
From the customer's portal, or logged by you after the phone call. Drawing, quantity and the date they need it, in a queue with an owner — not in an inbox.
The part, the method and the last price are on file. Add quantity breaks if they asked for the 10-off and the 100-off, check the margin, send. They approve it online.
Lines, PO number and delivery carried across. It joins the pipeline: received, in production, QC, invoiced, shipped, completed — and the customer can see which.
A work order with its bill of materials and routing, placed against your machines' real capacity, with a warning if material is short. Operators scan the job card on a phone.
Despatch issues the stock and raises the tax invoice from the same lines. It emails to their accounts address that day; with Xero connected it is in your books and marked paid when the money lands.
Each step is a screen in NE Vault. See all seven, with the screen for each.
On screen
What you get
The last price, method and drawing on file; price breaks on one quote.
Operations per machine with setup and run, costed into the quote and the job.
Capacity per machine, queued / running / done on the wall, updated by phone scans.
Lots and serials from the supplier receipt to the delivery note.
Receiving inspection, QC hand-off between operations, held stock that cannot ship.
A portal where they send the STEP file, view it in 3D, and order the part again.
Australian by default
Without a schedule, the job that slips is the one nobody looked at.
If the schedule prevents one slip a month, it has paid for itself three times over.
Questions
Yes. Each machine has its own calendar and capacity, work orders are placed against machines, and the floor board groups jobs by machine so operators see their own queue.
Yes. Job cards and stock labels carry a QR code; operators scan them with a phone to start, finish and move stock. There is a scan app for exactly that.
No. Most shops start with the free CRM and customer portal — quotes and orders — and add the production module ($39 a month) once the whiteboard is the problem.
Yes. Stock can be tracked by lot or serial, and the number follows the material through receiving, the work order and despatch, so you can answer which heat went into which job.
Built and supported in NSW. Prices in AUD, GST and ABN on the documents, Net 30 and 30 EOM terms, data hosted in Sydney.
With everything on — CRM, ERP, MRP and four extra staff — about $106 a month ex GST. The pricing page has a calculator.
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Start free and your trade's template is applied as you sign up — or book thirty minutes and we set it up with you, on your own parts.