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Machinist

Machinist runs the floor and tells you what the job cost.

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The Machinist nesting engine placing 28 demonstration parts on a 2500 by 1250 mm sheet of 6 mm steel, largest first, at 49.4% utilisation of the used region.

28 parts nested at 49.4% utilisation, offcut kept

From the live engine

What it does

It can give the operator a screen built for that machine, with machine modules for plasma profiling, wire EDM and CNC milling, then schedule the jobs, machines and operators above them, track progress piece by piece and collect the time and material each job consumed.

A CNC plasma torch cutting steel plate, sparks under the torch and cut parts lying in the nest
  • Give your customers a lead time based on real capacity, and the status of their own production order without them having to ask.
  • Work arriving from a quote becomes a job, the job carries its trace code through every station, and the cost comes back against the order.

See it working

Three Machinist screens from one demonstration Monday: the schedule board with 11 jobs across 3 machines, the Machines view as Wire EDM 1 sets up KAB-J26-00001, then the costs of 6 finished jobs with standard minutes against scanned minutes.

Demonstration data

Machine modules

In more detail

Built for the shop floor

Dedicated machine interfaces at the machine, with the jobs, operators, schedule, per piece tracking and real costs behind them.

The screen at Wire EDM 1, bound to that machine: job KAB-J26-00001, Punch die insert, Nettleham Tool and Die, Setting up, with Start running, Pause and Finish on offer and KAB-J26-00002 next in its queue.

Demonstration data

Every machine works the same way

One job model, one cost model and one trace code across every machine module, whatever the process.

One job model under every machine module. Three jobs on the demonstration floor, one per machine module: KAB-J26-00016, A nest of 12 parts, 4 min, £5.63 at standard; KAB-J26-00001, Punch die insert, 2 off, 2 h 50 min, £147.33 at standard; KAB-J26-00005, Pump housing face and bore, 4 off, 1 h 35 min, £102.92 at standard. Each carries a trace code, standard minutes, the minutes each scan measures and a cost at the machine's rate, moving through queued, setting up, running and done.

Demonstration data

Stock kept true at the machine

Material and consumables consumed at the machine write to the Stock ledger where that product is on.

Cutting the nest for CUT-2: the Nest and cut screen reports the remnant 1180 x 760 mm consumed with a new remnant 1051 x 156 mm banked. The Stock ledger's Mild steel 6mm remnants line records the consumption then the banked offcut, leaving 1 in stock.

Demonstration data

Progress without chasing

A customer sees the status of their own production order and nothing else.

A customer's view, with Commerce

The customer page's Orders list for Nettleham Tool and Die Ltd, which Commerce brings, each order with one word from the floor: 28 Sept 2026, Queued; 28 Sept 2026, Being made; 21 Sept 2026, Made. No machine, operator, minutes, cost or job code is shown to the customer.

Demonstration data

Who it is for

Who uses it daily

  • Production Manager
  • Works Manager
  • Shop Floor Supervisor
  • CNC Programmer
  • Setters and Operators
  • Production Planner
Who buys it and who to involve
  • Managing Director
  • Operations Director
  • Production Manager

Bring your setters and operators in first: the screen at the machine is built around how they already work.

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Where it fits

How the platform adapts

In Kabaido

Built in

Connects to

If your system has an API, Kabaido connects to it.

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Everything runs on the same open paths: the Kabaido API and MCP server, outbound webhooks, an inbound endpoint, a scheduled REST pull, CSV and Excel in and out, and Zapier, Make and n8n for anything else. Custom connections are built to order.

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