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A bill of materials that knows what a piece costs.

A bill of materials in Equinox is not a shopping list. Every component carries its waste share, every operation its setup and cycle minutes on a work center with an hourly cost, every offcut its recovery value. The standard cost you quote from is computed, not guessed — and the order that follows moves real stock.

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The Equinox manufacturing overview: counters for active bills of materials, work centers, and production orders in progress, planned and overdue, for a demo furniture workshop.
Manufacturing overview — demo company, real application
Measured, not promised
Waste, per line
On every component each bill line carries its own waste percentage, and the order maths it in: the 24 demo chairs ask for 108.86 m of ash strip, not the 100.80 a naive multiplication would give.
Standard cost
€71.92 what the demo bistro chair computes to — components plus operation minutes at the work-center hourly rate. One click writes it to the product; nobody types it.
Order lifecycle
5 states planned, confirmed, in progress, completed, cancelled — and the transitions between them are enforced by the server, not by discipline.
Real stock
Moves on completion finishing an order consumes the components at their real cost, receives the finished goods, and books valued by-products back in — as stock movements, not notes.

The whole bill, on one page

Components with quantity, unit and waste share. Operations with setup and cycle minutes, each on its work center with an hourly cost. Scraps and by-products declared next to what produces them. The bill is versioned, has a yield, and can be flipped between draft, active and obsolete — so the shop floor always knows which one counts.

By-products with a value
An offcut can be waste, or it can be worth something: give it a recovery value and completion books it into stock — and subtracts it from the cost of the finished piece.
Cost, computed
One click rolls the bill up into a standard cost on the product itself: components at cost price, operations at minutes times the work-center rate.
A bill of materials in Equinox: components with waste percentages, three operations with setup and cycle times on two work centers, a scrap line, and a computed standard cost of €71.92.
The demo chair bill — components, operations, scrap, computed cost

From order to pieces

A production order starts from a bill and a quantity, and the components explode themselves — waste included. It moves planned, confirmed, in progress, completed; each step is a server-checked transition, cancellation is allowed any time before the end, and only untouched planned orders can be deleted. Priorities and planned dates keep the list honest about what is late.

The Equinox production order list: three orders in three different states — planned, confirmed, in progress — with colored priorities, quantities and planned end dates.
Production orders — three states, priorities, planned dates

The order, while it runs

Open a running order and you see the progress bar, the exploded materials with their reserved and consumed state, the planned dates against the actual start, and the time logged on each operation. Actual costs stay honestly empty until completion — the page says so — because Equinox records what happened, not what should have.

In-house or subcontracted
An order can be worked internally or sent out: the subcontract variant carries its supplier and its agreed cost instead of internal labor.
Time, logged
Minutes are logged per operation on the order — by duration or start and end — and become the labor side of the final cost.
A running production order in Equinox: progress bar at 0 of 24 pieces, exploded materials with required quantities including waste, planned dates and actual start.
An order in progress — materials exploded, waste counted in

Completion is an event, not a checkbox

When an order completes, things happen: the components are consumed from stock at their real cost — layer by layer where the product is costed that way — the finished goods are received, valued by-products come back in and lower the cost of what you built, and the order keeps its material, labor and overhead totals. The warehouse and the books hear about it without anyone retyping anything.

Put production on the books.

Tell us what you build and how you cost it today. We will show you the module on a bill like yours — waste, minutes and all — and be straight about what it does not do.

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