Productive tools for mid-market US manufacturers.

The four tiers

Daily ops 7 - paperwork without the paperwork

• Purchase Order Generator - vendor + line items, branded PDF in 30 seconds. Saves your vendors locally.
• Invoice Generator - customer billing, payment terms, auto due-date calc, PDF download.
• Quote / Estimate Generator - quote with validity, optional discount, and acceptance signature line.
• Job Cost Calculator - materials + labor + machine + overhead. Margin check at your selling price.
• Bill of Materials Builder - parent SKU + components, per-unit costs, assembly totals. CSV + PDF.
• Production Schedule (Gantt) - jobs with start/end dates and status. Printable Gantt for the floor.
• Quality Inspection Checklist - checklist with criteria, readings, pass/fail. Signed PDF report.

Diagnostic 6 - the big questions every owner asks

• Do I Need an ERP? Diagnostic - 8 questions, 3 minutes. Quantifies the annual cost of running without a system.
• OEE Calculator - Availability × Performance × Quality. The gold-standard equipment productivity metric, with $ impact per loss bucket.
• Business Valuation - EBITDA × industry multiple with rule-of-thumb adjustments. The number every founder wants and almost nobody calculates honestly.
• Markup vs Margin Calculator - the pricing error that costs manufacturers 5-15%. Three modes including side-by-side.
• Manufacturing Operations Health Score - a single weighted score across quality, on-time delivery, inventory turns, OEE, and revenue per employee.
• Automation ROI Estimator - cobot, vision, conveyor, AGV. Labor displaced, payback in months, NPV over 5 years.

Trust builders 11 - defensible numbers

• Scrap & Waste Cost Calculator - material + labor + overhead + lost revenue. The full cost of scrap.
• Labor Burden Rate Calculator - true loaded labor cost: wage + taxes + benefits + PTO + overhead.
• Break-Even Calculator - fixed costs, contribution margin, break-even units and revenue.
• EBITDA & SDE Calculator - clean EBITDA with owner add-backs. SDE for owner-operated businesses.
• KPI Benchmark (5 KPIs) - benchmarked against mid-market US manufacturing.
• Revenue per Employee Benchmark - vertical-specific (US Census ASM), percentile placement, and what closing the gap is worth.
• Make vs Buy Calculator - true in-house cost vs vendor quote. The decision that quietly kills margin.
• SDE Calculator - Seller's Discretionary Earnings for owner-operated businesses. Add-backs, multiple, valuation range.
• Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) - internal failure + external failure + appraisal + prevention. The hidden 15-25% of revenue.
• Hire vs Overtime - burden, productivity decay, turnover risk. When OT stops being cheap.
• Lease vs Buy Equipment - NPV with Section 179 + depreciation tax shield. The capex decision your CPA wants you to ask.

Depth signal 11 - the metrics buyers, bankers, and auditors ask for

• ERP Readiness Scorecard - are your processes, data, and team actually ready? Most failed implementations were not-ready problems, not vendor problems.
• Machine Downtime Cost - per-hour cost of a stopped machine. The number that justifies maintenance budget.
• Reorder Point + EOQ - demand variability, lead time, safety stock. EOQ balances ordering vs carrying cost.
• Customer Concentration Risk - what happens to revenue and EBITDA if your top 1, 3, or 5 customers walk.
• Exit Readiness Scorecard - operating, financial, customer, supplier, talent, and systems readiness across 25 questions.
• Digital Maturity Assessment - 24 questions across 8 dimensions (Singapore SIRI). Industry 2.0-4.0 placement, top-3 opportunities.
• Capacity Planning Calculator - available hours × OEE vs demand. Bottleneck workcenter + units shippable before adding a shift.
• Expansion ROI Calculator - new line, second shift, new facility. Incremental revenue, cost, payback, IRR.
• OSHA Compliance Checklist - 25 items across walking surfaces, electrical, machine guarding, PPE, HazCom, LOTO, PIT, cranes.
• ISO 9001 Readiness - 10 clauses of ISO 9001:2015 scored. Prioritized gaps before a registrar audit.
• Insurance Coverage Checklist - GL, property, product liability, workers comp, cyber, D&O, EPL, BI. Gap analysis vs revenue-tier benchmarks.

How private are these tools?

Very. The numbers you type and the files you upload never leave your browser - all calculation and PDF generation happens locally. We don't have a server-side database for any of this: no signup, no account, no cloud sync. Your vendor list and recent documents save to your browser's localStorage only. The one caveat: anonymous page analytics (which page you viewed, not what you typed) fire if you accept the cookie banner, and not otherwise.

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