The open-source manufacturing ERP
Carbon is a modern manufacturing system that combines ERP, MES, and QMS into a single, unified, API-first system that's perfect for complex manufacturing.
Trusted by builders worldwide
Features
Simplify complex manufacturing
Escape legacy software with a flexible, AI-powered platform designed for the speed and agility of today's manufacturing challenges.
Live Job Costing and Simplified Scheduling
Unified Quoting, Purchasing & Production
Job Shop and Assembly Workflows
Multi-location Planning and Inventory
Drive growth and efficiency
Leave the spreadsheets and outdated software behind. Carbon gives you the control and clarity you need to run a better business.
End-to-End Traceability
Achieve granular, end-to-end tracking of materials, components, and processes, ensuring compliance, simplifying audits, and enabling rapid root cause analysis without the complexity and cost of traditional high-end systems.
Integrated Agents
Our ever-expanding catalog of agents allow you to save time and money by automating repetitive tasks. For example, our purchasing agent can create purchase orders and get quotes from suppliers automatically.
Custom Fields
Add custom fields with a few clicks to any table to track additional information. Then create custom views to track the data you need. Then use the configurator to generate Bill of Materials.
Simplified Scheduling
Optimize your shop floor schedule with flexible sorting capabilities, maximizing throughput, improving on-time delivery, and easily adapting to priority changes.
API-First Architecture
Carbon is built with an "API-First Architecture," which gives you unparalleled flexibility to seamlessly connect Carbon with your other business systems. This allows you to automate workflows across all applications.
Free onboarding
Why pay $15K just to get started? We ditched the onboarding fee and built an automated self-paced learning platform to get you and your team up to speed.
What our customers say:
As an engineering start-up pushing the boundaries in manufacturing assembly, we needed more than just another MRP/MES system. Carbon delivered - combining deep functionality with a refreshingly open, API-first design. It integrates seamlessly with our CAD tools, scales effortlessly, has fantastic UX and offers exceptional value.
Liam Sill
CTO, Minimal
Founder memo
Carbon Manufacturing Systems Corp.
After spending nearly a decade building end-to-end systems for manufacturing, I had a pretty good idea of what an "ideal" solution looked like from a technical perspective:
API-first, realtime subscriptions, simple scheduling, and 1,000 little details to make the juice of using an ERP worth the squeeze.
But even as we work with our customers to become the best off-the-shelf ERP/MES for many types of discrete manufacturing, we are faced with the reality that there is no "perfect" off-the-shelf solution, because each manufacturing business is unique.
We open-sourced Carbon not because it's a great business plan, but because that's the system I would have wanted when I was in your shoes.
I believe open-source has incredible potential because it's not just a product–it's a community of like-minded people working to build the future of manufacturing in the age of AI and robotics.
We're glad you're here for it.
