For contract manufacturing & CNC
Software for contract manufacturing and CNC
Plan machines, shifts and setup times in one system. Gantway plans setup times as fixed blocks, distributes orders across machines by utilization and reports conflicts before the early shift begins.
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Gantway Gantt — machine scheduling across 3 shifts with setup-time blocks and employee utilization
What Gantway takes over in contract manufacturing
In a contract manufacturing operation, it's not only what is produced that matters — but in which sequence. The wrong order mix costs two hours of setup time per shift. Gantway makes the sequence visible and plannable.
All machines on one planning board
The digital desk shows all machines on one surface: turning centers, milling centers, lasers, inspection stations. Eight zoom levels from the hourly to the monthly view. Tablet-ready for use on the shop floor.
- All machines on one surface
- Zoom from the hour to the month
- Tablet-ready for the shop floor
All machines on one planning board
Spot collisions before the shift begins
Overbooked machine, missing material, unresolved FAI status — Gantway highlights conflicts automatically before they become a problem. No scrolling through spreadsheets, no reconciling by email.
- Overbooked machine highlighted automatically
- Missing material and open FAI flagged
- No reconciling by spreadsheet or email
Spot collisions before the shift begins
Hourly rate per machine in the costing
Every machine has its own hourly rate. Pre- and post-costing pull the correct rate automatically — turning-milling center, laser cutting system or inspection station. No manual conversion, no more underestimated orders.
- Own hourly rate per machine
- Costing pulls the correct rate automatically
- No more underestimated orders
Hourly rate per machine in the costing
FAI status and shift log on the order
Every order carries its status: started, interrupted, remaining quantity, first-article approval pending. The production run only starts once the FAI is entered. The late shift sees at a glance what the early shift left behind.
- Status per order: started, interrupted, remaining quantity
- Production run starts only once FAI is entered
- Late shift sees what the early shift left
FAI status and shift log on the order
Assignment by qualification
Not every employee can run every machine. Gantway knows the team's qualifications and suggests only suitable employees for an order — across all three shifts.
- Team qualifications known to Gantway
- Only suitable employees suggested
- Across all three shifts
Assignment by qualification
Hide purchase and sales prices per role
Purchase prices, machine hourly rates, contribution margins: visible for operations management, hidden for machine operators. Field-level permissions, no separate system needed.
- Purchase prices, hourly rates and margins per role
- Visible for management, hidden for operators
- Field-level permissions without a second system
Hide purchase and sales prices per role
Is Gantway a fit for your business?
Gantway makes particular sense if …
- You produce in three shifts on turning centers, milling centers, lasers and inspection stations.
- Your orders run in parallel and come in varying lot sizes.
- Every material and tool change costs setup time that currently lives in the setter's head.
- Before the production run comes first-article inspection as a mandatory lead step.
- Your industrial customers expect delivery to tolerance and on deadline.
Frequently asked questions
How do I commit to reliable delivery dates as a contract manufacturer?
By basing the commitment on planning instead of gut feeling: in Gantway every task knows its predecessors and its capacity. You see whether a requested date is realistic before you commit — and if something slips later, the conflict engine reports the consequences immediately.
The conflict engine in detail →How do I see utilization for the coming weeks?
On the digital desk — zoomable from the hourly view to the monthly overview, with utilization per employee. The role-specific dashboard additionally shows metrics on orders, conflicts and utilization.
Dashboard & reports in detail →Can we do post-costing per part and line item?
Yes. Labor, material and machine costs are planned per order and line item and compared with actual hours from the timer on the task — to the hour and the euro. So you know which parts pay off.
Pre- and post-costing in detail →What does Gantway cost for a contract manufacturer?
Three plans by active accounts, payable monthly or annually — employees who are only scheduled cost nothing. Test free for 14 days, no credit card.
See pricing →Our clients ask about data security — what can we promise?
Servers in Germany, GDPR with a data processing agreement, role-based permissions and, on the Premium plan, an audit log that records key changes such as hourly rates, permissions and status changes — no one in your business can alter its entries afterwards. Tenant separation is doubly secured at the database level.
Permissions & audit in detail →Plan your next production run in Gantway
Contract manufacturers who work with Gantway plan setup times firmly, hand over shifts cleanly and commit to deadlines they can keep. Schedule a 30-minute demo — no obligation, no presentation, straight in the system.