Consule Solutions — Product Suite

NetSuite for Plastics and Injection Molding

Injection molding runs on machine time and material recovery. A press either ran or it did not, a tool either held cycle or it did not, and the regrind either made it back into the process or it walked out as scrap. NetSuite on its own records the completion; it does not usually record any of the rest.

What Makes Molding Different

How the Suite Covers It

Setup and run, timed separately

FactoryBridge times setup and run as two independent phases against the same operation. That single distinction is what turns changeover from an assumption into a measured number per tool, per press and per operator. Both phases can be paused, and a pause cannot be recorded without a coded reason, so a shift's downtime is categorized as it happens rather than reconstructed afterwards. See shop floor control for the full picture.

Recovering runners, sprue and regrind

CoYield records secondary outputs against the completion that produced them, with their own lot, bin and inventory status. Regrind, runners and purge become inventory records rather than an estimate, and YieldCraft reconciles what the job was planned to consume against what it actually consumed so the recovery rate is a figure rather than a feeling.

Machine data, where the machines can supply it

FactoryPulse connects shop-floor equipment to NetSuite so measured machine time and counts post against work orders directly. Because setup and run are already timed separately and every stoppage already carries a reason, the availability side of an OEE calculation is real captured data rather than an estimate.

Planning against presses

FactorySync provides visual scheduling and capacity planning, including work-center load analysis and bottleneck identification, so a press that is booked at 162% of capacity is visible before the due dates slip rather than after.

Related reading: NetSuite MES, shop floor control, and work order tracking.

See shop-floor execution

Frequently Asked Questions

Can we see changeover cost per tool?

Yes, because setup and run are recorded as separate timed phases against each operation rather than as a single production total. That makes changeover measurable per tool, per press and per operator.

How is regrind or runner recovery recorded?

CoYield records it as an output against the specific completion it came from, with its own lot, bin and inventory status, so recovered material lands in inventory instead of being estimated later.

Do we need machine integration to get downtime data?

No. Operators select a coded pause reason whenever setup or run is paused, which gives categorized downtime without any machine connectivity. FactoryPulse adds measured machine time on top of that where the equipment can supply it.

Can scheduling account for tooling constraints?

FactorySync schedules against work centers with load analysis and dependency tracking, so overloaded resources and out-of-sequence operations surface before the due date does.