Odoo for Industry · Plastics & Rubber
Odoo for Plastics and Rubber, Tooling, Cycle Times and Regrind
Odoo Plastics ERP, Injection Moulding, Mould Maintenance, Scrap Control
Book a free 30-min auditWhy Is Moulding Costed Wrongly by Most ERP?
A moulder doesn't produce one part per operation, it produces a cavity's worth every cycle, on a tool that wears down and a machine whose rate decides the margin. ERP designed for discrete assembly ends up costing a person's labour, when the real driver is press time and how many parts came out of each shot.
How Do You Cost a Job on Cycle Time Rather Than Headcount?
If costing assumes an operator per part, a 12-cavity tool running unattended ends up looking as expensive as a manual assembly bench. Quotes drift wrong in both directions, and nobody ends up trusting the standard cost.
Odoo MRP costs by work center rate and operation duration, so the press carries the cost and the cycle carries the time. Cavity count sits right on the bill of materials, so output per cycle gets modelled instead of assumed, and the quoted piece price reflects the actual tool it runs on.
How Do You Stop Tooling Failing Mid-Run?
Moulds get maintained based on shot count, yet shot count usually lives on a whiteboard somewhere. A tool slips past its service interval, flash starts appearing, and a whole shift of parts gets scrapped before anyone connects the dots.
Odoo Maintenance schedules preventive work off a meter, so a mould gets serviced at a shot threshold instead of whenever someone remembers a date. Since the tool is an equipment record with its own history, repeat failures on the same cavity become visible rather than anecdotal.
How Do You Get Credit for Regrind Instead of Writing It Off?
Sprues, runners, and startup scrap are real material carrying real value. Written off as loss, they inflate the cost of good parts and obscure how much virgin resin actually gets purchased.
Regrind gets modelled as a by-product of the manufacturing order and returns to stock as its own lot-tracked product. Blending ratios consume it on the next job, so it's costed where it's actually used rather than written off where it was made.
What Do We Deliver for Moulders and Processors?
- Work center costing by press rate with cavity count on the BOM
- Mould and die maintenance scheduled on shot count, not calendar
- Regrind captured as a by-product and blended back into production
- Resin lot traceability from receipt through finished part
Ready to Cost Jobs on Press Time?
Bring in one part number and its tool, and we'll walk through how piece prices get built today, what triggers tooling maintenance, and where your regrind ends up.
Book a free 30-min auditFrequently Asked Questions
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Can Odoo model multi-cavity tools properly?
Yes, the manufacturing order produces the cavity yield per cycle instead of one unit per operation, and the routing carries the cycle time on the press work center. Together, that's what makes the piece cost actually reflect the tool. The part that needs care is family tools producing different parts in one shot, which we model as multiple outputs from a single operation.
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Does Odoo connect to machine monitoring or MES?
Odoo doesn't read press controllers natively. Shot counts and downtime typically arrive either through an integration with your monitoring system or get confirmed at the work order, and we're explicit about which one applies, because maintenance triggered on shot count only works if that count is real.
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How does Odoo handle colour and masterbatch changes?
Colour is normally handled as a product variant with its own bill of materials that consumes the masterbatch, so a changeover becomes a distinct manufacturing order rather than an undocumented tweak. Purge material gets recorded as scrap against that changeover, which is usually exactly where unexplained loss hides.
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How long does a plastics implementation take?
A single-site moulder typically goes live in 12 to 16 weeks, with inventory and purchasing moving fast. What actually takes time is agreeing on work center rates, since most shops discover their existing standard costs haven't been revisited in years.