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Why not a generic MES or Excel?

Generic production tools don’t know what an assembly is. OpifexHQ starts where your work starts — the model in SolidWorks.

You know what you make. Do you know where it is?

In most machine shops nobody has the same picture — design, production, management. Every part has a story, but it is never written down anywhere.

WITHOUT OPIFEX

Scattered information

  • 'Where is part P-0142?' — nobody knows which station
  • Printed drawings, wrong revision on the floor
  • Priorities communicated verbally — and forgotten
  • 'Will we make it?' → nobody knows until it's late

RESULT: DELAYS, REWORK, LOST PARTS.

WITH OPIFEX

One source, live

  • Every part: station, owner, revision, file — in real time
  • Drawing changed? Re-import — production progress is not lost
  • SOS / Urgent / Normal priorities visible at every station
  • ETA per order — know which will be late before it is

RESULT: CONTROL — DELIVER ON TIME.

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The difference in one move

You import an assembly and the BOM — parts, materials, quantities, configurations — comes in automatically and the flow sets itself up. No generic MES or ERP does that; there you type it in or upload a CSV by hand.

What matters on the floorOpifexHQSolidWorks-nativeGeneric MESshop-floor suiteERP / Excelaccounting + sheets
Source of production data
✓Import from SolidWorksBOM, parts, materials, configs — automatic
~Manual / CSV
✗Typed in
Per-part flow setup
✓Automatic + memoryfrom the tree; remembers routes
~Manual routing
✗None
Live shop-floor tracking
✓Tablet · QR · batchper-piece, map, delays
✓Yes
✗No
Revisions & re-import (ECO)
✓Keeps flow + partsdetects what changed
~Rarely CAD-aware
✗No
CAD exports (DXF/PDF/STEP, satin, nesting)
✓Built in
✗Separate tools
✗Manual
Materials · stock · cost
✓From the BOM, unified
~Partial
~Excel
Time to first value
✓Minutesone import + we set you up
~Weeks of setup
✗—
Speaks the user’s language
✓The designer’sassembly, part, config, DXF
~Generic MES terms
✗Accounting terms
✓ full~ partial / manual✗ not covered

Honestly — what we’re NOT

We’re not an ERP: we don’t do deep accounting or invoicing. We’re exactly the SolidWorks → production piece that no generic tool covers — and we sit happily alongside whatever you already use for the books.

See it with your own assembly

Request a demo and we do the first import together — we set you up with 30 days free.

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