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.

Brad Barbin

Co-Founder and CTO