--- title: Manufacturing and industry description: "Software for manufacturers: work orders, stock and machines in one environment. We design the process and drive conveyors, robots and label printers directly." url: "https://rual.nl/en/industries/manufacturing" locale: en alternate: "https://rual.nl/industries/manufacturing" updated: 2026-08-04 source: "https://rual.nl" --- # One system for your work orders, your stock and the machines doing the work. In manufacturing the gain rarely sits in a new package, but in removing the handovers in between. We design that process and build the system that runs it, right down to the conveyor and the robot arm. [Book a call](https://rual.nl/en/demo) [See customer cases](https://rual.nl/en/customer-cases) ![A glowing hot steel coil moving through a rolling mill](https://rual.nl/site-assets/_opt/videos/steel_hot_roll_primary-750.webp) ## Where manufacturing gets stuck Rarely in the machines. Almost always in the space between them. - **Work orders entered twice** — Planning lives in one system, the floor works from a printout, and the back office retypes afterwards what was actually made. Every handover is a chance to get it wrong. - **Machines that never report back** — A running line knows exactly what it is doing, but that knowledge stays inside the control cabinet. In your administration you only see it after the fact. - **Traceability that starts on paper** — Batch numbers, inspections and rejects are written down on the floor and typed in later. The moment you have to trace where something came from, it costs hours. - **Stock that is never quite right** — Raw materials, work in progress and finished goods sit in separate lists. What is really there only becomes clear when someone counts it. - **Dispatch as an island of its own** — Labels, packing slips and carriers live in a separate package, when they need to know exactly what just came off the line. - **Reporting that always lags** — Cost price, lead time and utilisation come out of last month’s export. That means steering on history rather than on today. ## What we build for manufacturers Not an off-the-shelf package that almost fits, but the process the way it actually runs at your site. - **[Production and order management](https://rual.nl/en/company-software)** — Work orders, bills of materials, stock, purchasing and invoicing in the same environment as the floor. Changeable without starting a new project for it. - **[Control on the shop floor](https://rual.nl/en/warehouse)** — Conveyors, sorters, weighing cells, sensors and label printers, connected natively. Including the design of the layout around them. - **[Robot cells and vision](https://rual.nl/en/robotics)** — From a single arm at a packing table to a complete line, with cameras that recognise what is in front of them. Tested in simulation first. - **[Data and AI on your own numbers](https://rual.nl/en/ai)** — Consumption, scrap and lead time become usable the moment they sit in the same environment as your orders and your stock. ## From machine to ledger, with nothing in between Core has a built-in local devices manager. We connect equipment on the floor directly, with no outside integrator in the middle. What the line does shows up immediately in your orders, your stock and your administration. - Conveyors, sorters and weighing cells driven in real time - Sensors and IoT equipment feeding live measurements into your flows - ZPL label printers printing at the right station, at the right moment - Native DOBOT blocks: straight over TCP to arm, gripper and camera [See all integrations](https://rual.nl/en/integrations) - **A filling line at work: exactly the kind of process Core drives** ![Green bottles on a conveyor in a bottling line](https://rual.nl/site-assets/_opt/conveyor_bottles-800.webp) ## Design first, then build Automating does not start with software. It starts with the question of how your floor should work. We walk your operation, work through the goods flow and rebuild the design in our simulator. Grip points, cycle times and exceptions get tested digitally, before anything is ordered. - You see how the line performs up front, not after delivery - Changes are tested digitally first, then on the floor - Informed by research with TU Eindhoven among others - Where hardware does not pay off, we say so - **A design in simulation, before anything is built** ![A simulation of a hall with conveyors and work stations](https://rual.nl/site-assets/_opt/simulator-960.webp) ## What sits under the bonnet - **Control** — Conveyors, sorters, robot arms, sensors, weighing cells and ZPL label printers, native from Core. - **Administration** — Work orders, bills of materials, stock, purchasing and invoicing in the same environment as the floor. - **Integrations** — Accounting, item data and payment flows through existing connections, or a purpose-built integration where none exists yet. - **Hosting** — In the Netherlands, in ISO-certified data centres, with security management built into every environment. - **Lead time** — Usually 6–12 weeks to the first go-live, extended step by step from there. - **Ownership** — You keep building on the same platform, with your own team or with ours. No queueing at an outside vendor. ## From practice Three industrial operations where orders, stock and administration come together on the same platform. [All customer cases →](https://rual.nl/en/customer-cases) - **[CIMS Netherlands](https://rual.nl/en/customer-cases/cims-netherlands)** — Maritime · purchase invoices processed with OCR and AI ![Two CIMS crew members connecting a hose on the deck of a tanker](https://rual.nl/site-assets/_opt/customers/cims-people-960.webp) - **[Bartrack](https://rual.nl/en/customer-cases/bartrack)** — Construction and installation · 20+ million items, web and mobile ![Warehouse racking with labelled bins and an engineer using the app on his phone](https://rual.nl/site-assets/_opt/customers/bartrack-960.webp) - **[W.K. Heyl Jr.](https://rual.nl/en/customer-cases/heyl)** — Logistics · 26,600 m² driven end to end ![The W.K. Heyl Jr. distribution centre with green trucks at the loading docks](https://rual.nl/site-assets/_opt/customers/heyl-960.webp) ## Also working in - **[Logistics and transport](https://rual.nl/en/industries/logistics-transport)** — Warehouse, sorting line, trip planning and delivery in the same environment as your orders. - **[Food and floriculture](https://rual.nl/en/industries/food-floriculture)** — Day prices, auction and Floriday connections, and order processing built for fresh produce. ## Curious where the time leaks out of your production? We are happy to spend a day on your floor. After that you will know exactly which handovers are costing you money. [Book a call](https://rual.nl/en/demo) [Get in touch](https://rual.nl/en/contact)