Manufacturing
Commissioning software for plants that have to start producing on the date they promised.
New lines, plant expansions and equipment replacements all end the same way: a handover where someone has to prove every machine was installed, tested and accepted. Deskely holds that evidence from first delivery to first product.
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The problem
Production dates do not move, so the paperwork gets compressed.
Manufacturing commissioning runs against a fixed production start. When the schedule tightens, the testing evidence is the thing that gets deferred — and it is exactly the thing needed to accept the plant.
FAT and SAT records scatter
Factory acceptance evidence arrives from vendors in a dozen formats, and site acceptance testing is recorded separately again.
Line-level scope is unclear
Equipment is tracked by purchase order rather than by the production line it belongs to, so line readiness cannot be reported.
Snags block start-up invisibly
Outstanding defects are held in emails and a shared spreadsheet, and their impact on the go-live date only becomes clear late.
Vendors leave before close-out
Commissioning engineers demobilise while their items are still open, and the plant inherits an unfinished list.
What you get
Built for line-by-line acceptance.
Model the plant as systems and subsystems that match how production actually starts up — by line, by cell, by utility — and report readiness against those.
Equipment register
One controlled list of machines, instruments and utilities mapped to the line or cell they serve.
Learn moreFAT, SAT and ITR records
Templated acceptance records completed and signed against each asset, with vendor documents attached.
Learn moreSnag and punch tracking
Defects raised with photos on the floor, categorised by whether they block production start.
Learn morePre-start walkdowns
Structured inspections of each line before start-up, with punch raised directly from the walk.
Learn moreAcceptance certificates
Line acceptance and handover certificates gated on the records and open snags beneath them.
Learn moreVendor access
Give equipment suppliers scoped access to their own records and items without exposing the whole project.
Learn moreHow it runs
From delivery to first product.
- 01
Register the equipment
Load the asset list and map each item to its line, cell or utility system.
- 02
Record acceptance
FAT evidence attached on arrival, SAT and installation checks signed on site.
- 03
Walk the line
Pre-start inspections raise snags with photos, categorised by production impact.
- 04
Accept and hand over
Line acceptance issued against cleared records, with the dossier ready for operations.
Side by side
Shared drives versus a single acceptance record.
The question at every manufacturing handover is the same: can you show this machine was tested and accepted?
| Aspect | Folders and spreadsheets | Deskely |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor documents | PDFs in a shared drive, named inconsistently. | Attached to the asset record they belong to. |
| Line readiness | Estimated in a meeting. | Derived from signed records per line. |
| Snags | A spreadsheet with no link to go-live. | Categorised and gating the acceptance certificate. |
| Field capture | Paper on the floor, retyped later. | Tablet capture with photos, offline capable. |
| Operations handover | A box of documents assembled at the end. | A structured dossier built as the work happens. |
What changes
Per line
readiness reporting that matches how you start up
One place
for FAT, SAT, installation and inspection evidence
Gated
acceptance on cleared blocking snags
Scoped
vendor access to their own records only
Before you shortlist
Estimate what your current process costs
Enter your tag count and record handling time to see the admin hours and cost in play — then book a demo against your own numbers.
FAQ
Questions about manufacturing.
Project types
The same completions model, from a single line to a whole plant.
What changes between manufacturing scopes is the shape of the asset breakdown, the gate that matters and who signs. The record types, the acceptance ladder and the audit trail behind them do not.
Greenfield plants and new factories
A greenfield plant is built by a general contractor, filled by a dozen equipment suppliers and accepted by an operations team that arrives late. Deskely holds the building services, utilities and production equipment in one register with a certification order that reflects how the plant actually starts.
See this scope in detailProduction line installation and SAT
A production line is a chain of stations, conveyors, robots and controls that only produces value when every link is proven. Deskely tracks installation, hook-up, functional testing and SAT per station, so the line is accepted as a line rather than as a pile of machines.
See this scope in detailAutomotive body, paint and assembly
Body shop, paint shop and final assembly are three different engineering problems delivered against one start-of-production date. Deskely holds every robot, cell, conveyor and utility in one register, with acceptance gated per zone so the ramp does not depend on a single spreadsheet.
See this scope in detailFood, beverage and hygienic process
Food and beverage projects combine process skids, CIP systems, filling lines and packaging halls under hygiene and food safety requirements that have to be demonstrated, not asserted. Deskely holds the mechanical, functional and hygienic evidence against the same assets.
See this scope in detailPharmaceutical and life sciences facilities
In a regulated facility, commissioning evidence is the foundation the qualification effort stands on. Deskely holds installation and functional records against every asset in a controlled, signature-traceable way, so IQ and OQ start from good data instead of rebuilding it.
See this scope in detailBattery gigafactories and cell plants
A gigafactory stacks electrode coating, calendering, assembly, formation and ageing on top of dry rooms, solvent recovery and heavy utilities. Deskely holds all of it in one register with dependencies modelled, so equipment is not commissioned into a room that cannot hold dew point.
See this scope in detailSemiconductor fabs and cleanroom fit-out
A fab is a facility project and a tool installation programme running at the same time. Deskely tracks cleanroom, ultrapure water, bulk and specialty gases, exhaust, chilled water and power as subsystems, and every tool hook-up as an asset that depends on them.
See this scope in detailWarehouse automation and intralogistics
Automated storage, conveyor networks, sorters, shuttles and robotics are highly repetitive scopes with very high asset counts. Deskely templates the record set once and instantiates it across every module, so checkout progress is measured instead of estimated.
See this scope in detailPulp, paper, steel and heavy process
Paper machines, pulp lines, rolling mills and smelters start as a whole. Deskely holds the mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and drive evidence per system so the start-up sequence runs against proven equipment rather than assumptions.
See this scope in detailBrownfield upgrades and line relocations
Retrofits, line moves and capacity upgrades happen in short windows inside a live plant. Deskely gives the window a defined record set, live readiness and punch that is owned before restart, so production is not the thing that discovers the gaps.
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