Bulk routes each work order from kitting through SMT, reflow, AOI and test, logging the operator, machine, counts and components used at every step, and a failed inspection opens a quality issue on the job. The planner sees live status and the customer gets a real ship date. Order to invoice on the same record.
Bulk is electronics manufacturing software for EMS providers and in-house SMT lines: work orders routed across SMT, reflow, AOI and rework, components used by job, IPC-A-610 rejects raised as quality issues and line scheduling, with the order and the invoice on the same record. It is not a pick-and-place or AOI controller. It runs beside them and records the line as it runs.
Pick-and-place, reflow and AOI keep running as they are. Bulk records the work order across them: who ran each step, on which machine, how many passed, what AOI rejected and who reworked it. The job's history is one record rather than three machine logs and a traveller.
The reel refs, date codes or board serials an OEM or aerospace customer asks for go in custom fields on the job, searchable and filterable in the grid, and component certificates attach to the job as files. The components the job used are logged by variant with the quantity and cost, so what went into an order and what it cost sit on one record.
Components are stock by variant and site, received with a quantity, a reference and a unit cost, and drawn down on the job when the operator logs the material. Low-stock alerts fire against a minimum, so a kit is not short on the morning it is due. Bulk does not hold lots, expiry dates or floor life on the reel.
Where a machine has no data, the operator records the step at the station and the record still holds. Hand placement, selective solder and box build log the operator, the counts and the checks on the same work order as the automated line, and the invoice is raised from that record.
Stores logs the components the job draws by variant, quantity and cost; the reel ref the customer asks for sits in a custom field on the job.
See inventory
A compulsory line-start check on the placement machine must pass before the station lets the job start.
See audits
AOI and visual rejects are recorded on the step with a defect category, and each one opens a quality issue on the job.
See quality
The finished job carries its steps, counts and quality history, and the invoice is raised from the same record.
See invoicing
It runs manufacturing execution for the line, operator-first. Routing, scheduling, step records, quality and work instructions sit with the customer order and the invoice on one record. It does not drive the machines. Your pick-and-place, reflow oven and AOI keep running as they are and the operator records each step at the station, so manual and hybrid lines work the same way.
Not in stock. Bulk records the components each job used by variant, quantity and cost, and every step's operator, machine and counts. Reel refs, date codes or board serials a customer asks for go in custom fields on the job, searchable in the grid, and supplier certificates attach to the job as files. It does not hold lots or serials in stock or follow a reel from goods receipt to a shipped board.
Yes. The customer's IPC-A-610 class can sit in a custom field on the job, and AOI, ICT and visual rejects log against the step with a defect category, each opening a quality issue linked to the job. An NCR takes it to the material review board and escalates to an 8D where it's warranted. Quality issues are generally available; NCRs and 8D reports are in beta.
Not as a clock on the reel. Stock is counted by variant and site, without lots or expiry dates. Shops that log bag openings, bakes and exposure time do it as a form on the job or a scheduled checklist at the dry cabinet, so the record sits in Bulk rather than on a whiteboard.
Bulk runs the line from the operator's station, so nothing depends on a machine export first. For the back office, the order, stock and invoicing draw on the same job data inside Bulk; where you keep an accounts package, Bulk syncs both ways with it instead of re-keying.
One line end to end first, kit to test, proven on real boards in weeks, then the rest of the floor follows on the same pattern. Never a big-bang cutover. Pricing is one per-site figure with every module included: no per-module upsell, hosting and rollout in the number. You can start with a free trial, no card needed.
