Having just changed my job I find myself back in a manufacturing environment again. Part of my brief is to reorganise the manufacturing paperwork system, but I am on a strictly locost budget so this means I am on the lookout for a simple (but effective) method of generating a jobsheet for incoming orders.

The business is mainly signmaking so I need to keep tabs on in-house and subcontracted processes (alloy fabrication, printing, routing, fitting etc) and I just wondered if anyone has used anything that might tick most of the boxes.

Any suggestions guys?

Source Forge is a great site - its where all the people developing free software place their wares.....

From a quick search i've found,

http://sourceforge.net/projects/openplan/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/schedule-place/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cbss/

Good luck. In my last role we used Bugzilla (defect management system - although we used it to track support calls) and moimoi (our own personal version of wikipedia). Both worked faultlessly and saved our bacon.

both excel and access have may have what you need as a template

If you have Ms Office then you can make one. Just depends how confident you are as to how fancy you make it

About 5-years ago I was working with a company which used a product called Rent IT. It wasn't perfect but did a good job at a very reasonable cost as they effectively rent you the software on a per user basis which wasn't very much provided you didn't need too many licences.

Since then the product has been completely updated and the company now appear to be called 123insite so a lot may have changed but it's probably worth visiting their website at http://www.123insight.com/about.cfm

John.