Clamping Force. Tie Bar Clearance. Shut Height. Your Schedule Should Check All Three.
Every mold-to-press assignment is validated against the machine's physical limits before the job hits the floor, so your planner schedules with confidence instead of a spec-sheet spreadsheet. Color changeovers sequence light-to-dark automatically, and regrind flows back into inventory at the right mix ratio instead of being written off.
The injection molding problem
Your generic ERP was never designed for the physics of plastics
Family Molds Break Your Costing
Standard ERPs assume one machine cycle produces one part. When a family mold yields four different SKUs in a single shot, your job costing, scheduling, and inventory splits fall apart. Every run becomes a manual reconciliation exercise that nobody trusts.
Regrind Is Invisible to Your Ledger
You regrind sprues, runners, and reject parts to mix back with virgin resin. But your software treats that scrap as destroyed — skewing your material costs, breaking lot traceability for automotive and medical customers, and leaving inventory perpetually wrong.
Scheduling Ignores Your Constraints
Press tonnage, mold availability, color-run sequencing, and mandatory resin drying times must all align simultaneously. A scheduler that only knows "machine + time" forces your planners into spreadsheets — or worse, a whiteboard.
Micro-Stoppages Kill Margin Silently
A two-second cycle time delay on a press running 24/7 destroys thousands of dollars in margin per week. Without real-time weight and output monitoring, you only discover the bleed after the production report lands on your desk — too late.
Purpose-built for injection molding
Every feature maps directly to how you run your floor
Naologic doesn't bolt injection-specific features onto a horizontal platform. From clamping force validation and directional changeover matrices to regrind conversion algorithms and carbon black content tracking, every capability reflects the physical reality of running presses, managing molds, and tracking resin.
Mold & Tooling Intelligence
Register every mold as a digital Tool Model with exact clamping force limits, tie-bar dimensions, and cycle time baselines. The scheduler physically blocks incompatible press-mold pairings — preventing catastrophic machine damage before a job is ever assigned.
Scrap Regrind Conversion
Log scrap by weight and location. Define precise regrind mix percentages. The system converts processed waste back into a distinct, traceable, costed raw material SKU in your inventory — preserving lot lineage for automotive and medical audit requirements.
Directional Changeover Scheduling
Going from white to black resin takes 10 minutes. Going from black to white takes 2 hours. Naologic's dynamic changeover matrices capture this directional complexity. The scheduler groups similar color runs and calculates exact transition times per product variant pairing.
Real-Time Weight & Output Monitoring
Live over/under weight visualizations continuously compare actual output against your BOM's theoretical calculations. If a press is running heavy and silently consuming excess resin, scale-alerts notify the floor manager instantly — mid-run, not post-mortem.
Measured results
Injection molders on Naologic see gains across the entire operation
When your mold data, regrind tracking, scheduling constraints, and quality workflows live in one connected system, the gains compound across every press cycle. Stop leaking margin through disconnected spreadsheets and manual reconciliation. Start measuring what actually matters.
- 40% reduction in scheduling changeover downtime through intelligent color-run sequencing and directional changeover matrices
- 99.9% lot traceability accuracy across virgin resin, regrind blends, and finished goods — meeting automotive IATF and medical FDA audit requirements
- 3x faster month-end job costing with automated production reports capturing exact labor, material, overhead, and regrind consumption per manufacturing order
- 85%+ Overall Equipment Effectiveness achieved through real-time cycle monitoring, automated downtime logging, and proactive over/under weight alerts
From press to shipment
How Naologic runs your injection molding floor
End-to-end visibility, one platform.
100% of your resin consumption, mold lifecycle, quality certifications, and job costing — tracked in real-time from a single source of truth
Define Your Molds, Presses & BOMs
Register Tool Models with clamping force limits and tie-bar dimensions. Build BOMs with percentage-based consumption strategies for resin blends and additive letdowns. Configure carbon black content bounds per resin grade. Map routing strategies on an interactive canvas - and link molds directly to route steps so the scheduler validates tool availability automatically.
Schedule Against Real Constraints
Execute on the Floor - Digitally
Track Regrind and Material Consumption
Inspect, Certify & Ship
Analyze, Improve, Repeat
Deep capabilities
Every feature an injection molder needs — in one platform
Naologic covers the complete operational lifecycle of an injection molding facility. From quoting and purchasing raw resin to scheduling presses, managing molds, tracking quality, converting regrind, and shipping certified finished goods — every module is connected and every data point flows to your financials automatically. Below is a detailed breakdown of the capabilities most critical to injection molders.
Mold & Tooling Management
Tool Models - Clamping Force & Dimension Validation: Define comprehensive mold profiles with exact clamping force limits, tie-bar dimensions, exterior fit specifications, and baseline cycle time standards. The scheduler cross-references these physics against your press capabilities and physically blocks incompatible pairings — preventing catastrophic machine damage before a job is ever assigned.
Tool Assets - Lifecycle & Ownership Tracking: Register every individual mold and die as a unique, serialized Tool Asset. Track exact physical bin locations, total lifecycle shot counts, purchase dates, depreciation schedules, and strict customer vs. internal ownership attribution. Never misplace a customer's $50,000 custom mold again.
Tooling for Route Steps: Link required molds and dies directly to specific routing operations. The Master Scheduler verifies that the physical tool is available and not under maintenance before allowing any job to be scheduled against it — preventing the chaos of discovering a mold is out for repair after the job is already queued.
Material & Resin Management
Scheduling & Press Management
Quality, Compliance & Traceability
Shopfloor Execution
Why switch
Naologic vs. Legacy Plastics ERPs
GlobalShop Solutions and DelmiaWorks were built in a different era. They force injection molders into workarounds for the workflows that matter most — mold compatibility validation, regrind tracking, resin-specific quality testing, and constraint-based scheduling. Naologic was designed from the ground up for the physics and economics of your floor.
AI for injection molders
Logic Pilot understands your floor — not just your data
Naologic's embedded AI isn't a chatbot. At Level 1, operators ask natural language questions about resin stock, mold locations, and active job statuses across every module. At Level 2, the AI proactively analyzes your production schedule and surfaces optimization opportunities - recommending a color-run resequencing that saves 90 minutes of changeover, or flagging a regrind mix ratio that's drifting from spec. At Level 3, it drafts RFQs for depleted resin stock and routes them for your approval. At Level 4, it handles routine data entry autonomously. Five levels of autonomy, fully configurable. The AI works at the speed your team is comfortable with.
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Live on the floor in days - not quarters
Naologic implementations are measured in weeks. We map your molds, presses, BOMs, resin configurations, and routing strategies into the system. Your team starts scheduling real jobs on the interactive Gantt, and operators clock into digital job sheets on mounted tablets — all within a focused onboarding sprint. No 18-month rollout. No six-figure consulting engagement.
1. Map Your Floor
We import your work centers, press specifications, mold inventory, resin configurations, and existing BOMs. Clamping force constraints, changeover matrices, blending mode settings, and carbon black bounds are configured per machine and material.
2. Build Your Schedule
Your production planners drag-and-drop manufacturing orders onto the Gantt timeline. Mold availability, press tonnage, and color-run sequencing are validated in real-time. The Reflow algorithm compresses the timeline to maximize OEE.
3. Go Live on the Floor
Operators open Job Sheets on mounted tablets. They clock in, view work instructions with embedded printlines, log produced quantities, and report scrap with mandatory reason codes — all through a touch-optimized interface designed for factory conditions.
4. Analyze and Optimize
Production reports compile automatically. Scrap trends, shift comparisons, weight variance data, and OEE metrics surface in real-time dashboards. Your Logic Pilot starts recommending optimizations within the first month of live production data.