Carbon

Build hardware at the speed of software

Carbon combines ERP, MRP, MES and QMS.
Plan materials, run the shop floor, manage quality and track actual costs in one system.

Hard tech unicorns build on Carbon.

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  <b>One record from quote to cash.</b> Link quotes, orders, jobs and invoices.
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  <b>Generate configurations from rules.</b> Control BOMs, routings and revisions.
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  <b>Trace every unit to its source.</b> Follow lot and serial genealogy in both directions.
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Contents

• Why Carbon
• Features
• Get Carbon
• API & MCP
• Architecture
• Tech Stack
• Monorepo
• Local Development
• Commands
• Security
• Contributing
• License

Why Carbon

Manufacturing teams often run planning, production, quality and accounting in separate systems. That creates predictable problems:

• BOMs and revisions are re-keyed between engineering and production
• Material shortages surface after work has started
• Job costs and quality records are reconstructed after the fact
• Integrations depend on vendor-specific tools and consultants

Carbon puts ERP, MRP, MES and QMS in one Postgres database you can inspect, own and extend. Engineering, planning, production, quality and accounting update the same data, without synchronization jobs between separate product databases.

Carbon is an open-source alternative to NetSuite, Epicor, SAP Business One, Plex, Odoo and ERPNext. It supports complex assembly, contract manufacturing, configure-to-order and high-mix, low-volume production. See all comparisons.

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