Manufacturers

Orders come in while you sleep

Sync your website to MSA and every order placed on your Shopify store drops straight onto the floor as a new job in the zone you choose — no one re-keying orders, no missed sales. The work is queued and ready before you walk in.

Assemblies that check their own inventory

This is the heart of a manufacturing shop. When an order comes in for a product you build, assemblies automatically check inventory on the finished part. If it's on the shelf, it ships. If it's not, the system adds the assembly process to the job and draws down the component inventory needed to build it — so a sale automatically becomes a build order with the right parts already accounted for. Nested assemblies mean a sub-component that's itself built from parts works the same way, all the way down.

Component pricing that's never stale

Your assemblies are only as accurate as the cost of what goes into them. With Turn14 and your other connected suppliers syncing pricing, every component in an assembly stays current — so your build costs and your margins reflect today's prices, not last quarter's.

A true kanban line on the floor

Tag each job with a QR code and put bar-code scanners at each station along your production line. As a product moves from station to station, a quick scan moves the job through your zones automatically — no one updating a status by hand. That's a real pull-based kanban workflow, running off the floor itself instead of a whiteboard.

Sell your parts on the MSA B2B network

You don't only sell through your own website. Activate the ecommerce section, fill in the details about what your shop makes and sells, and choose exactly which parts you want to list for other shops to find on the MSA B2B network.

Other shops request a connection to you; you approve or reject each one, and set the discount you want to give that dealer. From then on, their purchase orders come across as new jobs on your floor — the same clean intake as your website orders. It turns the busywork of dealer relationships into one more queue you already know how to run.

The systems behind a real production shop

The tools are only half of it — running a shop like a factory is a discipline. We dug into exactly that with Richard Fielder, a controls engineer who builds the systems that assemble semi trucks at scale, across two episodes: 213 – Manufacturing Systems for Small Shops covers 5S, shadow boards, standard work, and building a real bill of materials, and 215 – Mastering Manufacturing goes deeper on lean, kanban, and error-proofing. MSA is built to put those principles to work on your floor.

MSA isn't a repair tool with an inventory tab bolted on. Order sync, self-checking assemblies, live component costing, scanner-driven kanban, and a built-in B2B sales channel are here because building and selling a product is its own business — and it deserves software that treats it like one.