Cloud MES for small manufacturers

Know where every job stands. Finally.

Runworx replaces the paper travelers with a live record of the work as it happens, without disrupting your business.

Built from the floor up. Live in weeks, not months.

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Runs on the phones, tablets and laptops your shop already has.

The Runworx operator screen for a running load on Plating Line 1: the flash plating step marked skipped, the plating step running with a dwell timer at 2 minutes 46 seconds of a 20 minute target, and its amperage and double-clean targets. — On the floor — The step that is running, the clock on it, and one button to finish it.

Close-up of the running step: a dwell timer reading 2m 46s against a 20 minute target, the amperage and double-clean targets, and the Complete Operation button. — On the floor — The step that is running, the clock on it, and one button to finish it.

The problem

What paper and Excel actually cost you.

None of this is news to anyone who has run a floor. It is just hard to fix with a clipboard.

You find out after the fact

The only way to know where a job stands is to walk out and ask. By the time the answer gets back to the office, the floor has moved on.

The history is in a box

A customer asks which lot went into an order from last spring. The traveler is in a banker’s box, if it is anywhere, and somebody spends a day looking.

Downtime nobody wrote down

A line sat idle most of Tuesday morning. It never made it onto a sheet, so it never happened — and nothing stops it from happening again.

Quotes built on memory

You price the next job from gut feel, because nobody can say what the last one actually took.

What Runworx does

The floor, on one screen — and on the record.

Every job, live

Open the dashboard and see what is running right now — not what ran last Thursday.

Work orders and process runs move on screen as the floor works them.
A crane stalls, a dryer stops — the floor gets an alert the moment it happens.
Downtime is logged as it happens, so you know which line sat idle, when, and for how long.

The Runworx operations dashboard: a seven-day production trend chart, a list of recently completed runs, and panels showing no active downtime issues and no material on hold. — Floor dashboard — Work orders in progress by line, with active alerts

From receiving to shipping

A job starts when the customer’s parts land on your dock and ends when they leave on a truck. Both ends go on the same record as everything in between.

Receive at the dock on a phone. The parts post to the customer’s order and every lot is tagged on the spot.
The office can see which orders are still waiting for parts without walking out to look.
Ship from a laptop: what goes now, what already went, what is still in the plant. Once posted, the shipment is locked.

The ship materials screen in Runworx on a laptop: a shipment for a customer order under review, showing the part, its work order, 457 pieces shipping now, none shipped before and none left in the plant, the carrier, and a Post Shipment button with a note that a posted shipment cannot be edited or voided. — Receiving and shipping — Parts received and lot-tagged on a phone; the shipment reviewed and posted from a laptop

Close-up of the receive parts screen from a phone at the dock: receipt RCPT-26-0024 posted to sales order SO-26-0027, with the incoming part tagged as lot LOT-000034, and buttons to receive another or finish. — Receiving and shipping — Parts received and lot-tagged on a phone; the shipment reviewed and posted from a laptop

Traceability that is already there

When a customer or an auditor asks what happened on a job, you are not reconstructing it. The history is already there.

Every shop floor event is captured as it happens. Nothing gets written down twice.
Lot, batch, rack, and unit history — what went in, what came out, what shipped.
Quality records and audit logs stay with the job instead of in a binder.

A work order in Runworx showing a completed process load with its input lot, disposition, pass and fail counts and who reported it, followed by the event history: the shipment, production completed at 65 of 65, and production reported from that load. — Job history — Every event on a work order, in order, with who and when

Change it yourself

Your process is yours. When it changes — a new step, a new quality check, a new routing — you change it the same afternoon.

No consultants
No change orders
No waiting on somebody else’s release

Where this lands

Three ways to run a floor.

How paper and Excel, an enterprise MES, and Runworx compare across seven parts of running a shop floor
Part of running the floor	Paper & Excel	Enterprise MES	Runworx
Getting started	Already on the floor	A year-long rollout	Live in weeks
Knowing where a job stands	Walk out and ask	A report somebody builds	Open the dashboard
Traceability	Boxes of travelers	There, if it was set up that way	Recorded as the work happens
Changing a process	Reprint the form	A change order	You change it yourself
Who runs it	Whoever files the paper	IT and an outside integrator	Your floor supervisor
Downtime	Remembered, sometimes	Logged if somebody logs it	Captured when it happens
Fit for a 15–150 person shop	It is what you have	Trimmed down to fit	Built for it from the start

Getting started

Paper & Excel: Already on the floor
Enterprise MES: A year-long rollout
Runworx: Live in weeks

Knowing where a job stands

Paper & Excel: Walk out and ask
Enterprise MES: A report somebody builds
Runworx: Open the dashboard

Traceability

Paper & Excel: Boxes of travelers
Enterprise MES: There, if it was set up that way
Runworx: Recorded as the work happens

Changing a process

Paper & Excel: Reprint the form
Enterprise MES: A change order
Runworx: You change it yourself

Who runs it

Paper & Excel: Whoever files the paper
Enterprise MES: IT and an outside integrator
Runworx: Your floor supervisor

Downtime

Paper & Excel: Remembered, sometimes
Enterprise MES: Logged if somebody logs it
Runworx: Captured when it happens

Fit for a 15–150 person shop

Paper & Excel: It is what you have
Enterprise MES: Trimmed down to fit
Runworx: Built for it from the start

Who is behind it

Built by people who have stood on the floor.

Runworx grew out of years of building software for steel mills, where lines run around the clock and nobody has patience for a system that gets in the way. We still build the same way: get on the floor, watch how the work actually moves, and make something an operator will use at two in the morning without being talked into it.

I fundamentally believe that the small and mid-size shops that make up America’s manufacturing backbone deserve tools as good as anyone’s, built for the way their floor runs.

We’re a small company. The people building Runworx are the people answering the phone.

Michael MayerFounder & Architect, Runworx TechnologiesLinkedIn profile of Michael Mayer (opens in a new tab)

How it works

From first call to running on the floor.

No IT hire. No outside integrator. No year of meetings.

A walkthrough
A short call. You show us how a job moves through your shop today. We show you what that looks like in Runworx.
We set up your shop
Your facilities, lines, and resources. Your routings and quality forms, built from the travelers you already run.
The floor tries one job
One work order, one line, on a tablet you already own. Operators use it before anybody commits to anything.
You are running
Roll it out line by line, at your pace. Weeks, not months — and you change it yourself from there.

Run your floor on Runworx.

Book a walkthrough and we will show you your own shop in it — your parts, your routings, your quality checks.

Rather just email? office@runworx.ai