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at the speed of software.

Carbon is the open-source manufacturing ERP/MES/QMS. Quote, plan, buy, build, inspect and ship on one live model of your factory — from a ten-person prototype shop to a rate-production line.

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Animated assembly instructions

Two hard tech unicorns build on Carbon.

And some of the world's most innovative manufacturers

CAD to Cash.

Every stage writes to the same record. No handoffs, no re-keying, no reconciliation.

Engineering

routing & work instructions

Planning

projections and MRP

Purchasing

POs & receipts

Order

confirmed dates

Production

ops on the floor

Quality

FAI & NCR

Shipping

packing & certs

Invoicing

costed actuals

Accounting

GL & accruals

Customize

API, MCP, apps

Configure to order

Unfork your BOM.

Parameterize the part, not the paperwork. Rules drive the bill of materials, the routing, the price before you quote it.

→ Rule-based BOM and routing generation

→ Revision control with effectivity dates

→ Rolled-up cost at any configuration

Part configurator / BOM tree

Manufacturing execution

Real-time, real cost shop floor.

Every part, hour, barcode, and deviation tracked and handled in real-time.

→ Digital travelers with work instructions

→ QR and barcode tracking on every unit

→ Finite capacity scheduling that reacts

Shop floor / job traveler

Quality

Traceability is the default state.

First article inspection, non-conformance, CAPA and gauge calibration sit on the same records as production. Pull any serial number and get its full genealogy — material certs, operators, measurements, deviations.

→ Serial and lot genealogy, forwards and back

→ NCR to CAPA workflow with sign-off

→ Certificates generated from live data

Quality / traceability record

Multi-entity · Multi-location

Every site on one ledger.

Carbon allows you to a scale from a single-entity, single-location operation, to a multi-national, multi-location manufacturing engine with consolidated accounts.

→ Multi-entity accounting with intercompany transactions

→ Per-entity currency, COA and tax, consolidated books

→ Multi-location planning with inter-site transfers

4 entities · 2 currencies · one ledger

Legacy ERPs were built for accountants in the 1990s.

Spreadsheet

Based on assumptions
Shortages found on the floor
Costing guessed after the fact
Revisions lost in email
No serial-level history
Audits reconstructed from memory

Legacy ERP

Accounting-focused
18-month implementation
Huge consulting bills
BOMs re-keyed by hand
Traveler printed at 6am, stale by 9
Quality in a separate binder

Next Generation

Manufacturing-focused, GAAP accounting
Everything integrated
Live in weeks
API-first, with first-class MCP
Full traceability and COGS
Audit trail is the database

Four systems, one schema.

ERP · Inventory & Costing

01Quotes & RFQ pricing

02Sales orders

03Purchasing & receipts

04Inventory & locations

05Job costing

06Invoicing & accounting sync

07Accrual accounting

If it has a bill of materials, Carbon runs it.

Regulated or not, one-off or rate production — the primitives are the same. The configuration is yours.

Defense

ITAR-ready, serialized, audit-first

Aerospace

AS9100, FAI, full genealogy

Automotive

rate production, PPAP, takt

Medical devices

ISO 13485, DHR, e-signatures

Consumer electronics

SMT, contract manufacture, NPI

Robotics

deep assemblies, configured units

Energy & grid

long lead, project-based build

Space

one-off, lot-of-one traceability

Semiconductor

cleanroom ops, yield analytics

Industrial equipment

configure to order, aftermarket

Self-hosted

CMMC-compliant work stays inside your walls.

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CMMC compliant

Built for CMMC compliance

Keep CUI inside your own boundary. Deploy on a single box, your own VPC, or fully air-gapped for defense programs that have to meet CMMC and ITAR requirements.

Your database

One Postgres schema, and it's yours

ERP, MRP, MES and QMS on a single database you control, with row-level security. Your data never leaves your perimeter — no vendor cloud, no third-party data lake.

Source available

Audit it before you deploy it

The whole application is on GitHub — the Community edition under AGPL-3.0. Read every line, run a security review, and extend it to fit your process.

Trusted

Auditable by construction.

Immutable ledgers, granular permissions, and the controls regulated programs are held to.

ITAR-ready deploymentAS9100ISO 1348521 CFR Part 11SOC 2 controlsRow-level security

Source available

Ask your agent what it thinks

Carbon's source code is available. Copy the prompt below into your favorite LLM.

I'm deciding whether Carbon would be the approach for my manufacturing business. Download the repo https://github.com/crbnos/carbon and do an audit of the capabilities. Then interview me about my manufacturing process, goals, and tools I use. Finish with 3-5 specific things Carbon could do for me.

TypeScriptReactPostgresRLSREST + Webhooks

An API for the entire organization.

MCP Docs API Docs

REST API

Every table is an endpoint

Generated straight from Carbon's schema — 381 resources and 1,641 endpoints, with typed clients for TypeScript, Python, C#, and cURL.

MCP server

Agent-ready by default

A built-in MCP server exposes 1,374 operations across 15 modules through three discovery tools. Permissions are baked in — an agent can never do what its identity can't.

Source available

Read it. Extend it.

A typed TypeScript monorepo with one generated database type shared across the app, the API, and the AI tools. Bring your own LLM.

 1import type { SupabaseClient } from "@supabase/supabase-js";
 2import { createClient } from "@supabase/supabase-js";
 3
 4const apiUrl = "https://rest.carbon.ms";
 5const apiKey = "crbn_*****************";
 6
 7const carbon = createClient(apiUrl, apiKey);
 8

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CAD to Cash.

Unfork your BOM.

Real-time, real cost shop floor.

Traceability is the default state.

Every site on one ledger.

Legacy ERPs were built for accountants in the 1990s.

Four systems, one schema.

If it has a bill of materials, Carbon runs it.

CMMC-compliant work stays inside your walls.

Auditable by construction.

Ask your agent what it thinks

An API for the entire organization.

Integrated with the world's best software.

Ship faster than your competitors can quote.

Build
at the speed of software.